by philipchevron Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:12 am
Fr. McGreer wrote:DzM wrote:One subtle aspect of this backdrop that I really enjoyed was the backlit windows what would light up during the slow numbers.
Yeah i noticed that in Belfast and Dublin at Christmas.
Also, when i was in New York in January, there was a painting on the wall of our hotel room that was almost identical to the Ranken backdrop. Bendy highrises at jaunty angles. Wonder did Andrew take his insparation from this (subconsiously)? I can't recall the artist.....
It reminded me of the backdrop for David Bowie's (in)famous
Diamond Dogs Show in the USA in 1974, but Andrew apparently was not aware of that production and, in any event, Bowie's did not have a train in the foreground. Cherry pickers, giant hands, scaffold bridges, chorus boys and Hamlet skulls yes, trains no. The show, David's first post-Ziggy production, came close to the lowest point of Bowie's cocaine addiction, and is commemorated in the album
David Live: David Bowie At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia and, most gruesomely, in Alan Yentob's astonishing
Cracked Actor for BBC TV's
Arena strand. I strongly recommend both for connoiseurs of human train wrecks. Ach! So there
was a train involved!
[quote="Fr. McGreer"][quote="DzM"]One subtle aspect of this backdrop that I really enjoyed was the backlit windows what would light up during the slow numbers.[/quote]
Yeah i noticed that in Belfast and Dublin at Christmas.
Also, when i was in New York in January, there was a painting on the wall of our hotel room that was almost identical to the Ranken backdrop. Bendy highrises at jaunty angles. Wonder did Andrew take his insparation from this (subconsiously)? I can't recall the artist..... :?[/quote]
It reminded me of the backdrop for David Bowie's (in)famous [i]Diamond Dogs Show[/i] in the USA in 1974, but Andrew apparently was not aware of that production and, in any event, Bowie's did not have a train in the foreground. Cherry pickers, giant hands, scaffold bridges, chorus boys and Hamlet skulls yes, trains no. The show, David's first post-Ziggy production, came close to the lowest point of Bowie's cocaine addiction, and is commemorated in the album [i]David Live: David Bowie At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia[/i] and, most gruesomely, in Alan Yentob's astonishing [i]Cracked Actor[/i] for BBC TV's [i]Arena[/i] strand. I strongly recommend both for connoiseurs of human train wrecks. Ach! So there [i]was[/i] a train involved!
