Hairspray
Patel Conservatory Theater TECO Theatre Tampa, FL
Lighting design for the 2014 production of Hairspray at Patel Conservatory Theater, directed by Sean Ryan Paris.
About the Lighting Design
Hairspray at the Patel Conservatory was a youth production with a complicated design problem: the playing space was viewed by the audience across a roughly 180 degree wide stage. Every cue had to land for sightlines that varied from straight-on to nearly side-stage, and the inventory had to spread thin across all of it.
The solution was a rig built to deliver the same visual energy from any angle the audience might be sitting in. Saturated color from multiple angles so the picture worked from any seat, layered moving light coverage that compensated for what a single front-light position couldn’t reach, and a cue stack tuned to the musicality of a big pop musical without sacrificing anyone’s view of the stage.
- Music
- Marc Shaiman
- Based on the New Line Cinema film by
- John Waters
- Director
- Sean Ryan Paris
- Scenic Designer
- Kristen Kochanik Garza
- Costume Designer
- Scott Daniel
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
- Assistant Lighting Designer
- Cody Basham
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