TCI articles from February 1997

TCI archives from February 1997

The hollow crown.(staging of 'Henry VI' at Joseph Papp Theatre in New York, New York)
February 1, 1997... Each age gets tire Shakespeare it deserves. For centuries, the most prized of the Bard's works have been the straightforward comedies, tragedies, and histories. More recently, modern audiences have embraced the so-called "problem plays," works...

Date with Destiny.(entertainment venues on cruise ship Carnival Destiny)
February 1, 1997... Bigger and better is the operative design mandate in the competitive field of cruise ship design. With at least 11 new ships entering service this year in the Caribbean alone, cruise lines have turned to enhanced amenities and expanded...

All that jazz.(sound design for Broadway revival of 'Chicago')
February 1, 1997... A key factor in the success of the sizzling Broadway revival of the Bob Fosse-John Kander-Fred Ebb musical Chicago is Scott Lehrer's sound design. Chicago is a tough, wisecracking musical satire about a pair of aging chorus girls who murder their...

Absolutely Fabuthane.(costume design for 'Walt Disney's World on Ice - Toy Story')
February 1, 1997... When couturier Frank Krenz was brought on board to design the costumes for Walt Disney's World on Ice--Toy Story early last year, he decided to check out the film version before getting down to work. "I had to go way out to the `burbs to see it,...

Edge & Co.(Canadian scenery fabrication and automation firm)(Company Profile)
February 1, 1997... "It's crisis management on a daily basis, quips Chris Edge, president of Edge & Co., the Canadian-based scenery fabrication and automation company. "If we had longer schedules and unlimited funds, somebody else would be doing all this." ...

Warner Bros. studio facilities.
February 1, 1997... MGM long ago tore down its backlot, and sold off its Culver City studio space to Sony. The towers oF Century City now occupy the ground formerly taken up by the Twentieth Century Fox backlot. RKO is no more. But after 70 years, Warner Bras....

Barbara Matera.(theatrical costume shop owner)(Interview)
February 1, 1997... On an October afternoon in Manhattan, Barbara Matera's sundrenched studio at 890 Broadway is abuzz with activity. Designer Theoni Aldridge comes by with sketches for the revival of Annie, actor Joel Grey pops in for a fitting of his suit for the...

Edward Pierce.(theatrical scenic and lighting designer)(Interview)
February 1, 1997... In June 1995, with an MFA in scenic and lighting design from Ohio University firmly in hand, Edward Pierce returned to his parents' Maryland home for all of two days before making the move to New York City to begin his design career. Now, at age...

NSI.(manufacturer of theatrical lighting consoles and dimming systems)(Company Profile)
February 1, 1997... NSI, the Wilsonville, OR-based manufacturer of lighting consoles and dimming systems, has long been one of the more low-profile companies in the industry. Formed in 1986 by principals Larry Lynn, Terry White, and Robert Hicks, the company has...

TCI sound products of the year.(theatrical sound products)
February 1, 1997... We came, we, played, we heard, we liked. From AES to NSCA to LDI96, audio manufacturers showed off a wide array of new products last year, ranging from tube mics to DAWs to ethernet-related technology. What follows, then, in no particular order,...

Lotfi ambitions.(general director Lotfi Mansouri moves San Francisco Opera into Bill Graham Civic Auditorium)
February 1, 1997... Here's San Francisco Opera general director Lotfi Mansouri's idealistic vision of"a total opera experience" for the company's 1996-97 season: "No proscenium, no fourth wall, the performers practically in the audience's lap." Here's the...

Derek McLane.(set designer)(Cover Story)
February 1, 1997... Scott Elliott's Broadway revival of Noel Coward s Present Laughter is tilled with surprises, but none of them is more charming than the opening; it s set in front of the show curtain, which looks like the imposing Classical facade of a London...

Disaster Italian style.(production design of film 'Daylight')
February 1, 1997... The first movie set director Rob Cohen ever visited was for The Poseidon Adventure, a 1972 Irwin Allen disaster film about an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave, and the survivors making their way to the surface. The experience must have...

Immersive IAAPA.(1996 International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions convention)
February 1, 1997... Like IAAPA 95, IAAPA 96 proved a delectable gumbo of high-tech and low-tech elements for themed attraction developers worldwide. For the second year in a row the annual hoedown of the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions...

Portable DAWs.(digital audio workstations)(Buyers Guide)
February 1, 1997... When it comes to digital audio, history is short and sweet. Approximately ten years after the advent of the computer-based digital audio workstation (DAW) and hard-disc recorder (HDR), the number of manufacturers for these products has more than...

Stratford on AVAB.(use of AVAB's VLC lighting control system at Canada's Stratford Festival)
February 1, 1997... Since 1953, Canada's Stratford Festival has been producing 26-week seasons of Shakespeare in its Festival Theatre. And since the 70s, Strand's Lightpalette had served admirably as the lighting control system for that theatre. But in recent years,...

The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820.
February 1, 1997... by Aileen Ribeiro. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1995. 257 pp. Cloth: $60.00. ISBN# 0-300-06287-7. Despite its title, this is not another book on the history of fashionable dress. Instead, it is an attempt to examine the...

Webster's New World Dictionary of Media and Communications, rev. ed.
February 1, 1997... by Richard Weiner. New York, NY: Macmillan General Reference, a Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company, 1996. 678 pp. Paperback, $27.95. ISBN 002-860611-6. Six years ago. Richard Weiner, a public relations counselor best known for launching the...

Jewelry in Europe and America, New Times New Thinking.
February 1, 1997... by Ralph Turner, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1996. 144 pp, 219 illustrations, 153 color ISBN# 0-50027879-2, Paperback: $24.95 In a handsome and nicely designed paperback volume, Jewelry In Europe And America, New Times New Thinking,...

Annie goes digital.(computer design used for sets of Broadway revival of 'Annie')
February 1, 1997... On Broadway this spring, the 1970s will make a major comeback. Already there's been the revival of the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical Chicago. And then there's Annie, the biggest musical hit of the 70s, which is scheduled to open in...