TCI articles from August 1994

TCI archives from August 1994

Terrors from the Greeks. (set design for 'Medea' production in Longacre Theatre, New York, NY)
August 1, 1994... Perhaps the most disturbing character in Greek theatre is Medea, seen on the New York stage last season in the London-based Almeida Theatre Company's coldly contemporary production of Euripides' Medea at Broadway's Longacre Theatre. Set...

Staging the piano man. (Billy Joel's 1994-95 tour)
August 1, 1994... Billy Joel likes to be close to his audience while onstage. But intimacy is the first casualty of an arena/stadium tour. To create a greater sense of rapport between the performer and his audience, Joel's longtime production team, headed by...

'Today' on the street. ('The Today Show's' new street-level studio design)
August 1, 1994... Set designer Jeremy Conway was contacted in December by NBC to work on The Today Show's June move to a streetlevel studio at 49th Street and Rockefeller Plaza. Since The Phillips Janson Group, the project architectural firm, had already...

New York awards; DC/Boston awards; London awards; Toronto awards. (set, sound, costume, and lighting design regional and national awards)
August 1, 1994... British designers dominated the action in this year's award-giving season in New York. At the Tony Awards, Bob Crowley won in the scenic design category, for the the Royal National Theatre revival of Carousel, as produced at Lincoln Center's...

In memoriam: Ferndinando Scarfiotti. (stage and film production designer) (Obituary)
August 1, 1994... Ferdinando Scarfiotti, the peerless Italian production designer whose collaboration with director Bernardo Bertolucci reached a high point in the Academy Award-winning 1987 film The Last Emperor, died April 30 in Los Angeles. He was 53. ...

In Memorium: Arden Fingerhut. (lighting designer, professor) (Obituary)
August 1, 1994... Arden Fingerhut, Obie Award-winning lighting designer and professor of theatre at Williams College, died May 13 after a long fight with cancer. She was 48. Her work included such major New York productions as Da, Bent, Hay Fever, Plenty,...

Craig Miller. (lighting designer) (Obituary)
August 1, 1994... Craig Miller, ballet, theatre, and opera lighting designer, died Tuesday, June 7, of cancer. He was 43 years old. A native of Kansas, Miller graduated from Northwestern University in 1971. He moved to New York in 1975, where he assisted...

Theme park sound. (profiles of innovative companies) (Company Profile) (Company Profile)
August 1, 1994... In the burgeoning sound industry, the world of theme park sound is one of the fastestgrowing aspects. From simple amplification to sophisticated show control devices, theme parks are providing sound companies with new business and the...

The Flintstones: William Sandell builds the town of Bedrock. (Film Production Design)
August 1, 1994... Production designer Bill Sandell and his Flintstones crew of art directors worked over the 1992 Christmas holidays, but the visions dancing in their heads weren't of sugar plums. Even though the live-action feature version of the classic TV...

Janet. (Janet Jackson)(Concerts - Costumes)
August 1, 1994... Last year, Janet Jackson appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone with nothing but her lover's hands concealing her breasts. But the Moral Majority members out there can relax--her garb for her current world tour is decidedly more substantial....

Beauty and the Beast: a Disney animation classic is rethought for the Broadway stage. (Theatre - Costumes/Hair/Makeup) (Cover Story)
August 1, 1994... When live theatre, the last of the cottage industries, merges with an entertainment conglomerate the size of Walt Disney Productions, you can expect fireworks. In Beauty and the Beast, fireworks are just one incendiary device used to...

ECTS. (ECTS Scenic Technology)(Special Report - Scene Shops) (Company Profile)
August 1, 1994... Jim Layner, director of operations for ECTS Scenic Technology, says the Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY-based shop should have a sign outside its door that says "We Never Close." "We're almost like the medical profession, where you're on call 24...

Hudson Scenic Studio. (Special Report - Scene Shops) (Company Profile)
August 1, 1994... Hudson Scenic Studio, Inc. is housed in a 50,000-sq.-ft. facility located in an old warehouse district in the South Bronx, the kind of neighborhood where burly truck drivers swerve around potholes the size of studio apartments and butt-ugly...

Compulite. (Compulite of Israel; lighting automation)(Business Report) (Company Profile)
August 1, 1994... Fear of the new is nothing, well, new in the US lighting industry. Despite all the excitement generated by an almost endless supply of new technological advances, most people are more than a little hesitant to become the first on the block to...

Deck II V2.1. (theatrical sound design program)(Software) (Software Review)
August 1, 1994... Deck was developed by software manufacturer OSC for use with Digidesign's Pro Tools hardware/software package. Now available for Sound Tools II users and non-Digidesign customers (via Macintosh A/V machines), Deck is a powerful, inexpensive...

Baby's Day Out. (film scenery)(Designer Sketchbook)
August 1, 1994... The climax of the John Hughes production Baby's Day Out finds the blissfully oblivious tot of the title crawling around the roof of a high-rise under construction, eluding kidnappers, bodily harm, and various other disasters. Of course, in...