Tony Award-winning LD Kenneth Posner got a chance to limber up some new artistic muscles for Pippin on Broadway, which featured European-style circus performers. An important part of the lighting design concerned the grid over the stage and the performers. The real estate there had to be split between the acrobatic gear and the lighting truss in order to avoid having the circus performers shake the grid, a situation that could prove dangerous. “I learned a lot about the circus world and the notion of lighting performers moving through space, lighting three-dimensionally. So as the performer moved through the air they were lit, which is something I don’t normally have to deal with. That was a challenge that I embraced and fell in love with on Pippin.”
— From “Inside Theatre” by Bryan Reesman, PLSN Sept. 2013, page 22
