3: The Rolling Stones
8: Beyoncé & Jay-Z
Lighting Co: VER
Video Co: Bowman Touring Video
NOTE: An earlier posting listed the wrong crew and gear for this tour. This posting was updated Jan. 24, 2015. PLSN regrets the error.
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Into the Fire
Well, here I am. The new editor of this fine magazine you are reading. And I’m over my head…again. But I’m not afraid, because most of my career has been spent being thrown into the fire. The fact is that, for the last 10 years, I have just been designing stuff, and nothing in my workload was stressful. Sure, there were challenges and long hours spent tweaking designs to bring my ideas to fruition, but I never stayed up late wondering how the heck I was gonna pull something off. Then came this new gig offer.
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LD Kenneth Posner Puts “Disgraced” in a Natural Light
Tony Award-winning lighting designer Kenneth Posner has worked on many dramatic productions with realistic, elaborate sets, including The Merchant Of Venice, Other Desert Cities and The Columnist. His most recent Broadway show, Disgraced, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Ayad Ahktar about pride, prejudice and self-deception, has allowed him the opportunity to use lighting to set mood and tone across different seasons in the same space. The changes are often subtle, but over the course of the show, the lighting moves from a warm atmosphere to a harsher vibe as the characters’ lives fall apart.
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Elton John- The Diving Board Tour
Before embarking on a second three-year Million Dollar Piano residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this month, Elton John headlined a New Year’s Eve concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. The Barclays Center show incorporated set elements and visuals from the artist’s 2013-2014 Diving Board tour — which marked the last chance for LD Patrick Woodroffe and the late Mark Fisher of Stufish Entertainment Architects to collaborate on the look of an Elton John concert. Fisher died June 25, 2013; the tour launched Nov. 8 and ran through Feb. 28, 2014.
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Fleetwood Mac: The Full-On Mac is Back
I’m having lunch today with Paul “Arlo” Guthrie, who could well be the finest Australian export to the States since Vegemite. He has again assumed his recurring role as production designer for Fleetwood Mac’s latest world tour. The band wrapped up well over a year ago when one of the founding members, bassist John McVie, had to take a leave of absence due to health issues. But that was after another original member, Christine McVie, sat in with the band for a show in London last year. She had been missing from the lineup since 1998, and for the first time in 17 years, the five members from the powerhouse lineup of the 1970s were involved in the show. I also spoke with lighting director Chris Lose and with screens provider Danny O’Bryen about the tour.
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