South Pacific
City Springs Theatre Company Byers Theatre Sandy Springs, GA
Lighting design for the 2019 production of South Pacific at City Springs Theatre Company, directed by Baayork Lee.
About the Lighting Design
South Pacific was a design that was rooted in naturalism. The design’s job was to make the audience feel like they were on the island. Heat, humidity, palm leaves, the way the tropical sun moves across the day. Realism for the location, scene by scene, from the first sunrise to the last sunset.
Directed by Baayork Lee, my first of several collaborations with her, the show leaned theatrical only in specific moments: solos, romantic isolation work, the more reflective stretches where the design got to find a single character in a single shaft of light and let everything else fall away. Beautiful stage pictures were the constant. Theatrical moves were the punctuation.
- Music
- Richard Rodgers
- Lyrics
- Oscar Hammerstein II
- Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'Tales of the South Pacific' by
- James A. Michener
- Director
- Baayork Lee
- Assistant Director
- David Grindrod
- Scenic Designer
- Michael Yeargan
- Costume Designer
- Catherine Zuber
- Lighting Designer
- Mike Wood
- Sound Designer
- Steve Kraack
- Associate Lighting Designer
- Dalton HamiltonAbby May
- Programmer
- Dalton Hamilton
- Drafting
- Jessica Creager
- Production Electrician
- Maddi Peddie
- Lighting Shop
- 4Wall (Rep: Tyler Bevel )
About the Show
On a South Pacific island during World War II, Ensign Nellie Forbush, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with French planter Emile de Becque. When Nellie learns that the mother of Emile's children was an island native, she refuses Emile's proposal of marriage, unable to overcome the prejudices with which she was raised. When Emile accompanies Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe's life, Nellie chooses to embrace a future with Emile and his children, thus confronting and conquering her prejudices.
Source: Concord
Cast
William Michals as Emile de BecqueKristine Reese as Ensign Nellie ForbushMaxim Gukhman as Lt. Joseph CableCassandra Hlong as LiatYvonne Strumecki as Bloody MaryCJ BabbCaleb BrinkAaron CarterLeticia ChavezFenner EaddyJohn FiscianAllison FisherArielle GellerD. J. GroomsLeigh Ellen JonesImani JosephLeah KeelanCarter McCombsMatt McCubbinCheryl OcfemiaSophia OcfemiaBen OhnemusJessica OlsonMeaghan PaetkauSkye PassmoreRussell ScottLauren Brooke TatumJake VielbigDaniel Yakamoto-WengelYingLing Zhu as ensemble
Production Photos
Press
Mike Wood's lighting design: thank you.