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Kevin Adams - Electric Spectacle, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Electric Spectacle

Designing Color and Light for the Stage

Av Kevin Adams

679 kr

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Electric Spectacle: Designing Color and Light for the Stage offers an intimate look into theatrical lighting design and collaboration through the eyes of four-time Tony Award winner, Kevin Adams.The book traces Adams' transformation from Texas-born set designer to self-taught Broadway lighting designer, chronicling numerous productions including his 20-year journey with "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and his groundbreaking work on "Spring Awakening." Rather than focusing solely on technical aspects, Adams emphasizes the art of collaboration with directors, choreographers, designers, and performers across ten significant productions that shaped both his career and the theater industry. Central to the book is Adams' response to the revolutionary transition from incandescent to LED lighting in the early 21st century, documenting how this technological shift transformed stage design. Adams reveals his unique approach of using his own home as a laboratory for lighting concepts that later appeared in his Broadway designs. Through detailed examples and extensive visual documentation—including light plots, paperwork, handmade collage and works on paper, scenic models and renderings and production photos from high-profile musicals spanning 1998-2025—readers gain insight into the creative process behind theatrical lighting design.Adams shares valuable lessons on creative problem-solving, communication strategies, and navigating the ups and downs of theatrical life, making this comprehensive work both an educational resource for students of theatrical lighting design and emerging professionals and an accessible behind-the-scenes look at how Broadway magic is created.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-26
  • Mått: 178 x 254 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 300
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781041221760
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Kevin Adams has designed lighting and scenery for musicals, plays, opera, solo performance, dance and film. His work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Las Vegas, the West End and around the globe. He has received four Tony awards and nine Tony nominations for his design work on Broadway.

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Kevin Adams brings remarkable generosity, warmth, and wit to every page, making this both a compelling read and an essential instructional guide. With a candid, unmistakably personal voice, he takes us behind the curtain to reveal his process on some of Broadway’s most dynamic, innovative and visually striking productions.—Anne Militello, Lighting designer; Professor Emeritus, California Institute of the Arts Kevin Adams is one of our great storytellers who sees light in the world, and the world of light, in wholly original and inspiring ways. Here he brings his life-long conversation with the world around him to full, rich, luminous life. An essential guide to boldly living, lighting and making theater.—David Zinn, Set and Costume designer Kevin Adams is a true artist using light as his medium. This beautiful, accessible book charts his journey of making a life and making theater, revealing a profound creative process meant not just for designers, but for every theatrical collaborator: teachers, playwrights, producers and directors alike.—Susan Hilferty, Costume and Set Designer, NYU/Tisch Graduate Design Chair of 25 yearsKevin Adams' wonderful book is not only a candid look at collaboration and show making -- it is a book about the act of making itself. About reaching for something before you know what it is. About creation, in all its uncertainty and grace.—Michael Mayer, Director and Producer of Theatre, Opera and Film

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