TCI articles from March 1993

TCI archives from March 1993

High Society. (set design for theatrical performance)
March 1, 1993... When Tony Tripp was asked to design High Society, a co-production of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Royal Queensland Theatre Company, and Sue Farrelly, he began looking for an image that...

David Cunningham and Gregg Esakoff. (principals of research and development firm Entertec)
March 1, 1993... "I'm serious," says David Cunningham. "It actually does clear your head. Gregg and I had a period where we invented a lot of products on the ski slopes. The last time we went up to Snowbird - during one of the periods of less stress - on the...

Paul Andrews. (set designer)
March 1, 1993... It seemed like a fairy tale in itself. When the then 21-year-old Paul Andrews was asked by the late Sir Kenneth MacMillan to redesign the ballet Romeo and Juliet, the young designer was dumbstruck. MacMillan had seen Andrews' work in a...

Costuming Chaplin. (costume design for movie)
March 1, 1993... Ellen Mirojnick dresses the story of a Hollywood icon Chaplin, Richard Attenborough's screen biography of the pioneering filmmaker-comedian, covers 80 years, twice the timespan of Malcolm X, the season's other major biographical film....

Gunther Schneider-Siemssen lord of the rings. (set designer)
March 1, 1993... Cosmic design and other concepts from this German master Imagine a design ideology so broad, its limits are the cosmos. Picture a concept of design that encompasses drama from its inception to the forefront of today's avant-garde,...

The Palm Beach story: the $55-million Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. (Florida)
March 1, 1993... The 55-million Kravis Center for the Performing Arts After a long and determined struggle, the Florida community of West Palm Beach has celebrated the completion of the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The $55-million...

The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys. (TV show)
March 1, 1993... Budget-based design for a bizarre children's series Comic book buffs fondly remember the back-page color advertisements from the 1960s which extolled the wonders of sea monkeys. For a few dollars, every child could own and care for these...

The Heidi Chronicles. (theatrical production)
March 1, 1993... A Production Casebook I had the opportunity to design scenery and lighting for a production of The Heidi Chronicles at the Polka Dot Playhouse in Bridgeport, CT. It had to be a small-scale production - the budget for scenic materials was...

The Rolacue Sapphire. (lighting control console) (Evaluation)
March 1, 1993... A major problem in modern lighting control console design is dealing with hundreds of control channels; how can you keep track of what they control? Moving lights, with the sheer number of channels needed to control them and the idiosyncratic...

Design training at UCLA. (School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of California at Los Angeles)
March 1, 1993... The evolution of UCLA's School of Theatre, Film, and Television can be traced from a modest production of The Persians, performed by the English literature department in 1918, to its current standing as one of the world's top-ranked...

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
March 1, 1993... The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (in four volumes, each running some 1,300 pages, including over 10,000 articles in all and weighing 25 lbs.) is a work that is certain to start fights among the fans, who will want to know why this singer is...

Updating your sound system, part 1. (Buyers Guide)
March 1, 1993... Are you an administrator, managing director, production manager, or master electrician stuck with the job of budgeting and updating that ancient audio system? Or are you a sound designer or technician who wants more information on what gear...

The ADA is a building code. (Americans with Disabilities Act)
March 1, 1993... Much attention has been given recently to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). For theatre consultants and architects, the provisions contained in the ADA's Title III, covering public accommodations, pose particular problems. These...

Martin. (TV comedy series)
March 1, 1993... Working on the new hit Fox sitcom Martin, costume designer Michelle Cole creates a full line of colorful apparel for a host of characters portrayed by the show's star, Martin Lawrence. Among Lawrence's multiple roles are Roscoe, a...