[SML] designer responsibility, was Newspaper Scenic Treatment

[Bill Conner]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> The difference being that some of Izenour's ideas, after they were refined
> by second (or third) parties, worked.
> ________________________________
> On 1/5/2015 3:00 AM, Dave Vick via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> The two greatest enemies of functional American theatre are Frank Lloyd
> Wright and George Izenour.
>

Izenour - Yes - like electronic dimmers and motorized rigging using
vfds - which when I was not all that young several prominent rigging
manufactures said would never work - and now they all swear by them.
His pioneering - even at some inconvenience - definitely resulted in
advances earlier than they would have otherwise evolved. I for one am
glad for infinite preset boards, electronic dimmers, packaged hoists,
tensioned wire grids, and other assorted advancements.  I can question
his doing research and development on actual projects we have to live
with - but no way it would have been developed and tested otherwise.

Wright - not so much - and I live a few blocks from his home and
studio which brings in a lot of tourism dollars to his community.  He
did seem to have it in for function and especially anyone who would do
other  - or wear or furnish differently - than what he envisioned.

-- 
Bill Conner Fellow of the ASTC