Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lighting was generally botched on the reviewed night. The followspot was hopelessly out of sync (i.e. under rehearsed?) during Play. And, among other design gaffes, the background effects during Leg that were allegedly supposed to resemble sunrise were shamefully misprogrammed and were used in the wrong color combinations. In the larger context of a botched second act set, the lighting errors provide us with sufficient evidence to soundly condemn the work of Richard Rutkowski, despite his fine first act set concept...
Similar motifs are evident at Limelight, which retains much of its former design. Once a church, the club's terraced balconies and altar sacrilegiously showcase the dancing mob. The setting is ideal for the exhibitionist...
Just six blocks north, the style is different. At Danceteria the design does not highlight individuals but blends them in with the crowd. There are no balconies, no crow's nests for the surveyor. Rather, the surfaces are unelevated and there is a darkness here which effectively obscures any attempt at glitz. This is not to say that egomania cannot thrive at Danceteria; let us not forget Madonna was born here...
Wandering into a parking lot after the show, Deadheads were once again displaying brightly colored T-shirts. We examined several, before settling on an intricate design with a Grateful Dead skull and lightening bolt on it. The police soon began to close the Deadheads down, however, and we made our way back to the "Dead Bus." The groupies packed up, ready to head for New Jersey, site of the Dead's next concert...
...just feel that sometimes, not too often, I can throw a rock into a pond and watch the ripples create a certain amount of discussion." Charles threw a rock through the plate-glass window of modern architecture last year when he decried the sterility of much contemporary British design. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects, he castigated a proposed steel- and-glass addition to the National Gallery as "a monstrous carbuncle on the * face of a much-loved and elegant friend...