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BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Holiday Spectacular
As mentined before the show was very successful, and in 2006 they contacted me again about redesigning the show for the second year. Of course I was careful to carry over the drape and platforming from 2005.
I had been given relative freedom in design except for a couple of strong recom-mendations. They wanted to incorporate large Nutcracker statues and to make the set have an "old fashioned" feel. A blank canvas can be a good thing or a bad thing... when it comes to stage design, I prefer more structured parameters from the beginning, because they always pop up at the end anyway.
The biggest hurdle was creating a show portal for the concert. This would be the main visual statement about the show, and would be the basic scenic element that turns a big open concert hall into a theatre. At left are several of the proposed portal designs. I didn't use nutcrackers in each design, and they were not all "old-fashioned" in a traditional sense.
I had been given relative freedom in design except for a couple of strong recom-mendations. They wanted to incorporate large Nutcracker statues and to make the set have an "old fashioned" feel. A blank canvas can be a good thing or a bad thing... when it comes to stage design, I prefer more structured parameters from the beginning, because they always pop up at the end anyway.
The biggest hurdle was creating a show portal for the concert. This would be the main visual statement about the show, and would be the basic scenic element that turns a big open concert hall into a theatre. At left are several of the proposed portal designs. I didn't use nutcrackers in each design, and they were not all "old-fashioned" in a traditional sense.
