Bassmaster Classic 2012
Mike Posner
Lighting Co
Performance Lighting/Stewart Independent Production
Venue
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL
Fishing in the Freelance Pond
Being your own boss (or lack thereof) is everyone’s dream: Working for yourself with only you telling yourself what to do and where to go. No reporting to someone, turning in those damn TPS reports. Ah, the ultimate American dream, it is what this country of ours was founded on.
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Dressing Up “The Best Man”
The recent revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man features a stellar cast performing a 52-year-old political drama that is as relevant and important today as when it first emerged. The compassionate Secretary William Russell (John Larroquette) and his less experienced, cutthroat competitor Senator Joseph Cantwell (Eric McCormack) play political rivals in the same party seeking the endorsement of former President Arthur “Artie” Hockstader (James Earl Jones). The escalating drama echoes the dirty tactics being used in modern politics, and the witty, often biting dialogue really transports audiences into this intense race that unfolds primarily in two hotel suites during convention time.
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Coachella 2012: A Tale of Two Weekends
Given the general state of the economy, these are hardly the best of times. But when you take a close look at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival, which was held in Indio, CA over two consecutive weekends in mid-April, it’s pretty obvious that they aren’t the worst of times, either.
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Dueling Deities
Broadway Revives Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell
He’s baaack …
Broadway revivals of the Messianic musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell, are helping The Great White Way find religion, once again. Although this is the fourth time Superstar has been staged on Broadway (it’s only the Second Coming of Godspell), the music and grand story arcs of these Jesus sagas remain as gripping and powerful as ever.
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Robe ROBIN DLX Spot
Miranda Lambert’s “On Fire” Tour
Although she’s not really made of gunpowder and lead, Miranda Lambert is comfortable around firearms. But if lighting and production designer Chris Lisle jokingly claims to be “legitimately afraid of her,” the country singer who first gained national attention as a finalist on TV’s Nashville Star in 2003 can bank on her talent, and not just fearsomeness, for her fans and critical acclaim.
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Upstage Video Expands in Three Directions
“We are busting at the seams,” says Doug Murray, who founded the Pottstown, PA-based Upstage Video in 2005.
To better serve its growing roster of clients, the company is expanding on three fronts. Along with the move from its current 8,000-square-foot home base to a 50,000 square foot building in the Philadelphia area later this year — “that should hold us for another year or two,” Murray laughs — the company recently expanded into a 10,000-square-foot facility in Boulder, CO, near Denver, and also acquired Los Angeles-based JumboScreen Co. (JSC) in April. Operations there will soon move from Thousand Oaks, CA to a 10,000-square-foot warehouse just 10 blocks from Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Read More »
High End Systems DLV
The DLV, the newest fixture in High End Systems’ line of digital lighting fixtures, combines media server technology with a 4,000-lumen projector in a compact yoke luminaire designed for small venues like clubs and theatre. Based on the same software platform as the larger DL.3, the DLV programs and operates with very few differences from the DL.3.
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