Here is another “webisode” from PRG, this one on the design and technical components of Don Holder’s lighting. Note that the clips of Holder were filmed during the designer’s session on Spider-Man at this year’s Broadway Lighting Master Classes.
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Gallery: Some Shots From Version 1.0
Here is a sequence of images from Spider-Man 1.0 as our masked webslinger rescues Mary Jane Watson from the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the easiest ways to spot that this is from the earlier version of the show is the presence of the guitarist stage right, who returned to the rest of the orchestra for 2.0. Building and installing the ramp was a particular challenge for the technical crew, who will be featured in posts going up next week. Photos by Jacob Cohl.
Spider-Man Lighting Staff
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
Lighting Staff (partial list)
Lighting Designer: Don Holder
Associate Lighting Designer: Vivien Leone
Assistant Lighting Designer: Caroline Chao
Moving Light Tracker: Porsche McGovern
Automated Lighting Programmer: Richard Tyndall
Production Electrician: Randy Zaibek
Head Electrician: Ron Martin
Don Holder’s Lighting Design For Spider-Man
Photo Jacob Cohl
“From what Julie had envisioned and George was creating, I got the sense of a world that included very bright, bold, dynamic color, particularly in the backgrounds,” says Don Holder of his lighting for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Holder won a Tony Award for the Taymor-directed The Lion King and also lit McKinley’s Broadway debut, The Boy From Oz. “What we were building was a 3D comic book world.”
The hiatus period brought about certain changes to this vision. “The new creative team felt it needed to be warmer and more accessible,” says Holder. “They wanted the foregrounds to be infused with color and texture, whereas Julie wanted them icy and edgy, and we moved toward a high-contrast HMI palette that lit all the actors and carved out the 3D space. I had to figure out how to get the foreground and background together without everything turning into mud.” Read the rest of this entry »
Spider-Man: The Lighting Paperwork
Check out all LD Don Holder’s lighting paperwork from associate lighting designer Vivien Leone.
CLICK TO ENLARGE: Lighting Onstage PlotCLICK TO ENGLARGE: Lighting FOH Plot
Spider-Man Lighting Equipment List
Spider-Man Partial Lighting Equipment
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
2 PRG V676 Console
1 ETC Eos Console
27 Philips Vari-Lite VL3500Q
10 Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash
20 Philips Vari-Lite VL2000 Wash 700W
2 Philips Vari-Lite VL2000 Wash 1.2kW
2 Philips Vari-Lite VL2500 Spot
3 Martin Professional MAC 2000 Wash XB
40 Martin Professional MAC 2000 Performance
27 Martin Professional MAC 700 Profile
6 Coemar Infinity Wash XL
6 High End Systems Studio Color 575W
56 Altman Lighting Spectra Cyc
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Spider-Man Creative Team
Photo Jacob Cohl
Original Director: Julie Taymor
Choreography and Ariel Choreography: Daniel Ezralow
Additional Choreography: Chase Brock
Resident Director: Keith Batten
Resident Choreographer: Jason Snow