Hairspray
City Springs Theatre Company Byers Theatre Sandy Springs, GA
Lighting design for the 2019 production of Hairspray at City Springs Theatre Company, directed by Brandt Blocker.
About the Lighting Design
Hairspray at City Springs was the first Hairspray I was able to light using an all-LED-and-movers rig. After years of working with mixed conventional/LED inventories, the rig now had limitless color, infinite preset combinations, and the ability to react on the beat. Which also can be a challenge.
A limitless rig is overwhelming. The interesting design problem isn’t whether the rig CAN do something. It’s whether the moment needs it.
That became the central guideline: the music dictates the rig. Which moments are receding and calm. Which ones are big, flashy, over the top. The full capacity of the rig serves the song’s energy rather than getting deployed indiscriminately. When a song is quiet, the design is quiet. When a song wants the room to break open, the rig opens up.
Restraint is what makes the big moments land.
- Music
- Marc Shaiman
- Based on the New Line Cinema film by
- John Waters
- Director
- Brandt Blocker
- Choreographer
- Cindy Mora Reiser
- Music Director
- Chris Brent Davis
- Scenic Designer
- David Rockwell
- Costume Designer
- William Ivey Long
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
- Sound Designer
- Keith Bergeron
- Associate Lighting Designer
- Dalton HamiltonAbby May
- Programmer
- Dalton Hamilton
- Production Electrician
- Corey Whittemore
- Lighting Shop
- 4Wall (Rep: Tyler Bevel )
About the Show
Set in 1962 Baltimore, the story follows Tracy Turnblad, a pleasantly plump teenager who dreams of dancing on the popular "Corny Collins Show." When her dream comes true, she's transformed from social outcast to sudden star and uses her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network. Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, this family-friendly musical is piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.
Source: MTI
Cast
Jennifer Massey as TracyChase Peacock as Link LarkinDeborah Bowman as Velma Von TussleChristian Magby as Seaweed J. StubbsKayce Grogan-Wallace as Motormouth MaybelleAlison Brannon Wilhoit as Amber Von TussleGreg London as Edna TurnbladSteve Hudson as WilburChris Saltalamacchio as Corny CollinsMarci Millard as Prudy / Gym Teacher / Jail MatronGrace ArnoldCJ BabbRayven BaileyAyana DuboseDavon FarmerHoke FraserDaniel FobesJames FobesAvery GillhamBonnie HarrisJenna LorsonChani MaisonetMaggie McCownCaleb PetersJessica ReeseGeorge RobertsJordan Keyon SmithKiley Washington as ensemble