TCI articles from February 1993

TCI archives from February 1993

The Nutcracker turns 100. (ballet)
February 1, 1993... As the world's most popular ballet celebrates its 100th anniversary, many regional companies are again investing in the designs that last for decades. One such example is Ballet Florida, whose production of The Nutcracker has found a home at...

Labor pains. (movie 'Hoffa')
February 1, 1993... Danny De Vito's Hoffa started and suspended preproduction twice over the last few years, so when the film finally went before the cameras in February 1992, production designer Ida Random had compiled ten months of preparatory work. But much...

Maryland Sound expands.
February 1, 1993... One of the rock and roll world's largest sound companies, Maryland Sound Industries, Inc., has been expanding at a breakneck pace into fixed installations, theme parks, and special audio/video projects. Maryland Sound's vice president Tim...

Jubilee Hall. (addition to Raffles Hotel in Singapore)
February 1, 1993... Singapore's fabled Raffles Hotel started to accumulate legends almost from the day it opened. Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Noel Coward, and Somerset Maugham were among its list of fabled guests. Crown princes, dukes, maharajas, and movie...

Marjorie Bradley Kellogg.
February 1, 1993... Details are important to Marjorie Bradley Kellogg. Her box setting for the recent production of J.B. Priestley's When We Are Married at Seattle Rep was a Victorian parlor: a bouillabaisse of wall-paper, foliage, carpet, plate rails,...

The culture senator: Ulrich Roloff-Momin.
February 1, 1993... In Berlin these days, Ulrich Roloff-Momin's name is often in the news. As culture senator for Germany's once-and-future capital, he is responsible for the disbursement of a budget of $600 million among the city's cultural institutions. These...

David Gallo.
February 1, 1993... Since he was a child, David Gallo wanted to design for film. Then he "got suckered by a scrim. I saw a scrim in West Side Story on Broadway, and it was really impressive. The scenery disappeared, and that was what I loved about film--and...

Chris Morning.
February 1, 1993... The Freedom Nation show in the Showcase Theatre at Six Flags is a flagwaving celebration of freedom in America. Intellabeams isolate singers in pools of light and follow them about the stage. ColorPro luminaires make a fiberoptic curtain...

The Digicart. (digital audio recorder) (Evaluation)
February 1, 1993... THE DIGICART If you've been searching for a playback deck that has built-in auto cue and loop functions, cue-specific output gain, zero rewind time, and great specs, and which can quickly edit cues during tech rehearsal, the DigiCart...

Costumes on computer.
February 1, 1993... Laura Crow changed the palette from a uniform blue and lavender to a more vivid combination of contrasting colors. In less than a minute, every color and shade in the multi-colored, finely detailed garment in her rendering changed. A moment...

Choosing a design program. (graduate school for theatrical design)
February 1, 1993... So you want to go to graduate school for theatrical design? Here are some points to consider when choosing a school. First of all, should you go to graduate school at all? Even if you are your college's all-star techie, that does not...

Erasure. (music group on tour) (Cover Story)
February 1, 1993... When Erasure's singer/frontman Andy Bell pedals out onstage in his swan chariot, followed by keyboardist Vince Clarke in a hydraulically-powered tank, it's apparent that no ordinary rock/pop concert is to follow. Welcome to "Erasure, the...

Malcolm X. (costumes for the movie)
February 1, 1993... Costume designer Ruth Carter has worked on all of Spike Lee's features, but nothing quite prepared her for the scale of the director's Malcolm X, which was released in November by Warner Bros. Spanning the title character's 40-year life, the...

Used People. (movie)
February 1, 1993... Unlike the well documented historic personage of Malcom X, fictional, unexceptional middle-class characters living in Queens, New York, circa 1969, provide Used People with its title. Costome designer Marilyn Vance-Straker did not have the...

Elisabeth: a Viennese musical about the life and death of an empress.
February 1, 1993... With the September premiere of Elisabeth, Vienna renewed its bid for a hit musical which could transfer to London and New York. Last season, the candidate was Freudiana, notable for the amazing technology employed by scenic designer Hans...

Paulie Jenkins.
February 1, 1993... Award-winning lighting designer Paulie Jenkins can only be described as a human dynamo. Since 1976, she has lighted more than 300 productions at such respected theatres as the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Orange County's South Coast...

The next wave at BAM. (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
February 1, 1993... Following closely on the heels of its much-celebrated run of Theatre du Soleil's Les Atrides at the Park Slope Armory, the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival took place closer to home on BAM's three stages, but drew on the talents...

Broadway Day and Night: Backstage and Behind the Scenes.
February 1, 1993... This extremely handsome volume has been put together by the people at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which raises money to fight AIDS on several fronts. It consists of hundreds of black-and-white photographs detailing the events of a day...

The ABC of Stage Lighting.(Brief Article)
February 1, 1993... Reid's fifth book on theatre technology, The ABC of Stage Lighting, is an encyclopedic reference manual of current and historic lighting technology. Designed to help break the language barriers inherent in the terminology, this pocket-sized...

Firearm Safety Onstage.
February 1, 1993... Firearm Safety Onstage is misnamed. It covers much more than the title topic. It tells how firearms work and gives a crash course in history of such weapons. It also explains the origin of common expressions such as "going off half-cocked"...

Coppola and Eiko on "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
February 1, 1993... This slim oversized volume boasts some of the most gorgeous costume photos and sketches to ever grace a coffee table. Photographer David Seidner showcases Eiko Ishioka's designs for Bram Stoker's Dracula in spare theatrical settings, making...

The Way of The World. (play by William Congreve)
February 1, 1993... English comedies of manners by definition focus on the idiosyncrasies--the vanity, the affectation, the preciousness--of the upper crust; William Congreve's The Way of the World is generally regarded as the best example of this genre....