Let's Hang On
City Springs Theatre Company Byers Theatre Sandy Springs, GA
Lighting design for the 2021 production of Let's Hang On at City Springs Theatre Company, directed by Brandt Blocker.
About the Lighting Design
Let’s Hang On was made for a camera, not for an audience in the room. City Springs was producing a streaming series during COVID, no live audience allowed, the show built to be recorded and streamed later. This was one of the first shows my full team got back together for after the shutdown.
Heavy previz and pre-programming carried the design through tech, which COVID had compressed significantly. With multiple takes at multiple camera angles, the whole thing had to be time-coded. We needed as much of the show locked before we hit the room as we could.
The lighting approach was theatrical-capture. The intent was that the streamed product would feel like watching a theater show, not a TV show. When the intent is theater, the design language stays the same: maybe a level boost here for the camera’s exposure, maybe a small desaturation there for color rendering, but no fundamental shifts. The camera is another viewing angle. It’s not a reason to redesign the show.
I also designed scenery and projections on this one. The lighting, scenic, and projection design were built together as a single system rather than three separate departments handing off.
- Musical Arrangements
- Chris Brent Davis10 shows of theirs
- Director
- Brandt Blocker7 shows together
- Choreographer
- Cindy Mora Reiser13 shows together
- Music Director
- Chris Brent Davis10 shows together
- Scenic Designer
- Mike Wood
- Costume Designer
- Paul Riner2 shows together
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
- Sound Designer
- John McKenzie
- Projection Designer
- Mike Wood
- Associate Lighting Designer
- Dalton Hamilton26 shows togetherAbby May26 shows together
- Programmer
- Dalton Hamilton26 shows together
- Production Electrician
- Tyler Barrett2 shows together
- Lighting Shop
- 4Wall (Rep: Chad Tripson )
- Company Manager
- Jalise Wilson13 shows together
About the Show
A musical revue celebrating the chart-defining voices of 1960s pop, from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons through The Supremes, Dusty Springfield, Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, and many more. Filmed at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center for streaming during the pandemic season, the production wove more than fifty chart hits into a single-evening survey of the era.
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