Lights Up! Industries Lights Up Industriesspecializeses in balloon lights -- balloons containing large lamps that are suspended above a set or concert venue to cast a soft, evenly distributed light.
We run on volunteer power, in-kind donations from local acting schools, venues and casting facilities and we got a few bucks from Actra Fraternal Benefits Society AFBSSociety AFBS
Together, they decided to make it all happen: secure a venue, confirm a cast, print the flyers.
Beyond nature's magic, Kate Powers achieved her own coup de theatre, less instantly startling than the one employed by David Cromer in his rightly hailed Our Town, but one organic to the venue and this cast, and deeply, quietly powerful.
There is a life-sized carousel tucked up above somewhere that lowers to provide a new venue for the large cast of acrobats and aerialists.
This setting is a very chic California-meets-New-York kind of venue, which welcomed the cast and crew of "Les Ballets de Monte Carlo" mingling with Orange County guests, who had come to the performance and also demonstrated their desire to support the Princess Grace Foundation.
Flames spread fast, releasing toxic fumes and short-circuiting the power supply, casting the venue into darkness.
Further details, including casting, venues and performance dates, have not yet been announced.
This summer's venue is described by the cast as a "fat" (what used to be called "cool") brownstone in Greenwich Village.
Such was the opportunity given last week to members of the cast of the venue's new production of The Threepenny Opera.
