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Pretty Darn Wonderful
Spisto is indeed happy with the final
results. “We are very, very pleased with
the new theatre,” he says. “There are two
aspects that work well for the Old Globe.
The first aspect is that it is so easy to work
in from a technical perspective. It is flexible
and allows us all sorts of possibilities. The
other thing that I think is equally—and in
fact at the end of the day is more—important
is that the relationship between the
audience and the actor just works beautifully.
And the acoustics are perfect.”
Craig Schwartz
Left to right: Steven Kaplan as Jay, Jennifer Regan as Bella and Austyn Myers as Arty in Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in
Yonkers, in The Old Globe’s new Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.
The trap room below the White Theatre. The stage deck is a customized version
of a standard product from Staging Concepts. The stage can be flush
with the first row of seats or set one-foot higher or lower than the seats as
well as having the ability to put a trap or entrance wherever needed.
Like theatre, architectural projects
are a collaboration of many different
partners. In addition to FDA and LMN,
Jaffe Holden Acoustics was the acoustic
and audio-visual consultants and Horton
Lees Brogden consulted on specialty
lighting. Spisto comments, “Working
with LMN Architects and Fisher Dachs
was superb.” Spisto is equally pleased
with the choice of LMN, out of two
dozen firms interviewed. “We have
loved working with LMN; they listened;
they allowed us to lead the program. We
are a theatre; it’s like building a hospital
for doctors; the people here don’t just
work in the building, we create in the
building. I really loved both of these
firms; they were tremendous. I think
that if all of life was as successful as this
building we would all have pretty darn
wonderful lives.”
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