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Keith Urban: Award-winning designer lights award-winning artist

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Keith Urban: Award-winning designer lights award-winning artist

Lighting designer Chris Lisle started in the business in 1992 when he toured with the St. Louis-based rock band Novella. Along his way, he has picked up experience as a production assistant, stage manager, tour manager, production manager, assistant producer and producer. In 2003, he won the Bandit Lites “Rookie of the Year” award, and he recently picked up the “Rock” award from the same company. And now, he can add to his resumé lighting designer for one of country music’s hottest commodities, Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year for 2005, Keith Urban.

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Ring of Fire: The Story of the Songs of Johnny Cash

The arrival of March will bring with it the opening of Ring of Fire, the new musical based on the songs written and performed by Johnny Cash and the evocative stories those songs tell. The show’s premise revolves around the telling of these stories and how the smaller vignettes tell a larger overarching story in and of themselves. To bring the now-immortal songs of Cash to life, projection designer Michael Clark and lighting designer Ken Billington have created a stage environment to match the versatility of the lyrics and the wide range of both emotional and physical space that the characters must go through along their journeys. I recently spoke with the creative team behind this show to find out how they ignited this Ring of Fire.

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