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Lightconverse/High End Systems Lighting Challenge 2017 Entry Deadline is April 1, 2017

Nook Schoenfeld, Editor, PLSN

Lady Gaga Shows How It’s Done

The Super Bowl halftime shows rarely thrill me. I think the lighting, production and staging of these shows is usually incredible, year after year. But to be honest, the last time I think I saw an artist that really impressed me with their performance was when Prince killed it. But this year rocked.

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'Sunset Boulevard' photo by Joan Marcus

‘Elegant Decay’ for ‘Sunset Boulevard’

With Glenn Close returning to the character of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, the role that won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical 22 years ago, one wonders what the creative team could do to top the previous production. As Sunset’s new scenic designer James Noone notes, the last mansion set was enormous and very realistic. “It was a beautiful, stunningly executed, Gothic Hollywood movie palace that came down from the flies and moved forward,” he says.

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