"electric arc lighting in the late 19th century. Limelight Limelight (also known as Drummond light or calcium light) is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide), which can be heated to before melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence. Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be ""in the limelight"". The actual lights are"
"to illuminate a juggling performance by magician Ching Lau Lauro. This performance was part of the celebrations following the laying of the foundation stone of the Clock Tower. The advertising leaflet called it ""koniaphostic"" light and announced that ""the whole pier is overwhelmed with a flood of beautiful white light"". Limelight was first used for indoor stage illumination in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots (spotlights). Limelight was replaced by"
"new Limelight before it found its way into theatrical use, which started around 1837. Limelight became popular in the 1860s and beyond, until it was displaced by electrical lighting. Lighting advances made in English Theatres during this timeframe paved the way for the many lighting advances in the modern theatrical world. Stage lighting has multiple functions, including: Lighting design is an art form, and thus no one way is the ""correct"" way. There is a modern movement that states that the lighting design helps to create the environment in which the action takes place while supporting the style of the"
"eyes from the glare of the stage."" On the other hand, early stage lighting was by candlelight, so the ""glare"" might be apocryphal, a modern reference to electric stage lighting. It is sometimes said that the term green room was a response to limelight, though the name is merely a coincidence – ""limelight"" refers to calcium oxide, not to the fruit or colour. Furthermore, limelight was invented in 1820 and the term ""green room"" was used many years prior to that. It is possible that ""green room"" might be a corruption of ""scene room"", the room where scenery was stored"
"Limelight (club night) Limelight is a classical club night that takes place at the 100 Club, in Soho, London. The night aims to broaden the appeal of classical music by presenting artists in an intimate, ""rock & roll"" environment, undermining conventional notions that classical music needs to be heard in a formal concert hall to be enjoyed. Unlike at traditional concerts, artists are encouraged to speak to the audience about their music choices and stay for a drink and chat at the bar afterwards. The 100 Club was chosen for the night because of its rich history, with many of"
"over 100 peers, music industry professionals and members of the public. Limelight (club night) Limelight is a classical club night that takes place at the 100 Club, in Soho, London. The night aims to broaden the appeal of classical music by presenting artists in an intimate, ""rock & roll"" environment, undermining conventional notions that classical music needs to be heard in a formal concert hall to be enjoyed. Unlike at traditional concerts, artists are encouraged to speak to the audience about their music choices and stay for a drink and chat at the bar afterwards. The 100 Club was chosen"
"from the gas line. The conical reflector can be related to Fresnels that are currently used today. This adjustable box of light reflected a beam in which the size could be altered by a barndoor. Limelight spots are similar to today’s current spotlighting system. This instrument was used in scene shops, as well as the stage. Gas lighting did have some disadvantages. ""Several hundred theatres are said to have burned down in America and Europe between 1800 and the introduction of electricity in the late 1800s. The increased heat was objectionable, and the border lights and wing lights had to"
"By 1828, he was penniless; Drury Lane held a benefit concert for him after Covent Garden refused. In 1817, bare flame gaslight had replaced the former candles and oil lamps that lighted the Covent Garden stage. This was an improvement, but in 1837 Macready employed limelight in the theatre for the first time, during a performance of a pantomime, ""Peeping Tom of Coventry"". Limelight used a block of quicklime heated by an oxygen and hydrogen flame. This allowed the use of spotlights to highlight performers on the stage. The Theatres Act 1843 broke the patent theatres' monopoly of drama. At"
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a reception, panel, and film screening at their Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, on October 3, 2012. Cast members Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd shared their recollections in a conversation moderated by Chaplin biographer and archivist Jeffrey Vance. Limelight (1952 film) Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch. The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer, played by Claire Bloom, from killing herself, and both try to"
"gas, a cotton mesh with cerium and thorium was imbedded into the Welsbach. This source of light was named the “gas mantle” which created three times more light than the naked flame. Instruments that were used to light the stage during the nineteenth century fell under different classifications. Footlights, border lights, groundrows, lengths, bunch lights, conical reflector floods, and limelight spots were mainly used during this period. These mechanisms sat directly on the stage blinding the eyesight of the audience. Footlights caused the actors’ costumes to catch fire if they got too close to the lights. These lights also caused"
"eight men and eight women were performing ""In the Pale Moonlight"". Sparks from an arc light ignited a muslin curtain, probably as a result of an electrical short circuit. A stagehand tried to douse the fire with the Kilfyre canisters provided, but it quickly spread to the fly gallery high above the stage. There, several thousand square feet of highly flammable painted canvas scenery flats were hung. The stage manager tried to lower the asbestos fire curtain, but it snagged. Early reports state that it was stopped by the trolley-wire that carried one of the acrobats over the stage, but"
"Black Limelight Black Limelight is a 1936 play by Gordon Sherry that in 1938 became a British crime film directed by Paul L. Stein, starring Joan Marion and Raymond Massey. ""It concerns itself with the murder of a vulgar young woman [Lily]. Suspicion rests on refined young married Peter, who has disappeared, and is known to have spent week-ends with the young woman in question, apparently with the full knowledge of his charming wife [Mary]. She, on hearing of the murder, does everything in her power to screen her spouse. There are, of course, police and detectives on the track,"
"Limelight (1952 film) Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch. The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer, played by Claire Bloom, from killing herself, and both try to get through life; additional roles are provided by Nigel Bruce, Sydney Earl Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden, and Norman Lloyd with an appearance from Buster Keaton. In dance scenes, Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden. Upon the film's release, critics' reception was divided; it was heavily boycotted in the United"
"latest casualty is ""Limelight,"" a La Jolla Playhouse collaboration between freshman tunesmith Christopher Curtis and vet librettist Thomas Meehan ... that has its moments but falls into the usual trap of trying to cover too much ground. In the process, the tuner turns glib and superficial."" Chaplin (2006 musical) Chaplin: The Musical, formerly titled Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, is a musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and a book by Curtis and Thomas Meehan. The show is based on the life of Charlie Chaplin. The musical, which started at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in"
"and brought them back to England when he came to power. New playhouses were built in England and their large sizes called for more elaborate lighting. After the refurbishing of the theatres, it was found that the ""main source of light in Restoration theatres to be chandeliers"" which were ""concentrated toward the front of the house, and especially over the forestage"". English theatres during this time used dipped candles to light chandeliers and sconces. Dipped candles were made by dipping a wick into hot wax repeatedly to create a cylindrical candle. Candles needed frequent trimming and relighting regardless of what"
"candles were commonly (and in some cultures still are) used. In the United Kingdom, electrically powered Christmas lights are generally known as fairy lights. In 1881, the Savoy Theatre, London was the first building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity. Sir Joseph Swan, pioneer of the incandescent light bulb, supplied about 1,200 Swan incandescent lamps, and a year later, the Savoy owner Richard D'Oyly Carte equipped the principal fairies with miniature lighting supplied by the Swan United Electric Lamp Company, for the opening night of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera ""Iolanthe"" on 25 November 1882. The term"
"in their balcony permanently bolted open to provide seating for the theater ghosts. Similar superstitions hold that ghost lights provide opportunities for ghosts to perform onstage, thus appeasing them and preventing them from cursing the theater or sabotaging the set or production. This is also used to explain the traditional one day a week that theaters are closed. Ghost light (theatre) A ghost light is an electric light that is left energized on the stage of a theater when the theater is unoccupied and would otherwise be completely dark. It typically consists of an exposed incandescent bulb, CFL lamp, or"
"International Year of Light — the Museum of Modern Showlighting (MoMS) is the first European museum that specifically covers all the sectors where showlighting plays a vital role: concerts, musicals, television shows, discothèques, theme parks, exhibitions... The museum investigates the chronology of advances in lighting technology in parallel with the development of the socio-cultural context. After a brief historical excursus on stage lighting beginning in ancient Greece, the exhibition focuses attention on the 1980s and the development of lighting effects that have become part of our collective memory through musicals such as “Saturday Night Fever”. It then comes to the"
"with no further purpose. This changed in the early 19th century with the introduction of gas lighting which was slowly adopted by the major theatres throughout the 1810s and 1820s to provide illumination for the house and the stage. The introduction of gas lighting revolutionized stage lighting. It provided a somewhat more natural and adequate light for the playing and the scenic space upstage of the proscenium arch. While there was no way to control the gas lights, this was soon to change as well. In Britain, theatres in London developed limelight for the stage in the late 1830s. In"
"Limelight (Rush song) ""Limelight"" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. It first appeared on the 1981 album ""Moving Pictures"". The song's lyrics were written by Neil Peart with music written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. ""Limelight"" expresses Peart's discomfort with Rush's success and the resulting attention from the public. The song paraphrases the opening lines of the ""All the world's a stage"" speech from William Shakespeare's play ""As You Like It""; the band had previously used the phrase for its 1976 live album. The single charted at on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Top Tracks chart and"
"and ""The Slimelight"" is a parody of The Limelight, another famous club of that era which was also located in a church in London's Shaftesbury Avenue. Over the years the club has been renovated and upgraded to feature all the mod cons of a proper nightclub, however it retains much of its decaying, abandoned feeling, due partly to the architecture and the state of disrepair of some facilities. Slimelight Slimelight (sometimes referred to as Slimes) is a London club night. It is the longest running alternative-dark scene club event in the world, and has been at its present location, Electrowerkz,"
"Stage lighting instrument Stage lighting instruments (lanterns, or luminaires in Europe) are used in stage lighting to illuminate theatrical productions, concerts, and other performances taking place in live performance venues. They are also used to light television studios and sound stages. Many stagecraft terms vary between the United States and the United Kingdom. In the United States, lighting fixtures are often called ""instruments"" or ""units"". In the UK, they are called ""lanterns"" or ""luminaires"". This article mainly uses terms common to the United States. Stage lighting instruments all have the following components: The lamp housing is a metal or plastic"
"Ghost light (theatre) A ghost light is an electric light that is left energized on the stage of a theater when the theater is unoccupied and would otherwise be completely dark. It typically consists of an exposed incandescent bulb, CFL lamp, or LED lamp mounted in a wire cage on a portable light stand. It is usually placed near center stage. Ghost lights are also sometimes known as ""equity lights"" or ""equity lamps"", possibly indicating their use was originally mandated by the Actors' Equity Association. The practical use of a ghost light is mainly for safety. A ghost light enables"
"Gas Light Gas Light (often spelled as Gaslight and known in the United States as Five Chelsea Lane and Angel Street) is a 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton. The play (and its film adaptations) gave rise to the term gaslighting with the meaning ""a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim with the intent of making them doubt their own memory and perception"". The play is set in fog-bound London in 1880 at the upper middle class home of Jack Manningham and his wife Bella. It is late afternoon, a time"
"Limelight (1936 film) Limelight is a 1936 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Arthur Tracy, Anna Neagle and Jane Winton. It was released in the U.S. as ""Backstage"". When chorus girl Marjorie (Anna Neagle) discovers singer Bob (Arthur Tracy) busking in the streets, and the star of her show falls ill, she persuades her producer to give him a break. Sure enough, Bob becomes an overnight sensation, but success unfortunately goes to his head. The film was the first made by Wilcox's independent production company, Herbert Wilcox Productions, at his Elstree Studios. It was distributed by J."
"Pressure"" Tour (1984), the ""Presto"" Tour (1990), and the R40 Live Tour (2015). Limelight (Rush song) ""Limelight"" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. It first appeared on the 1981 album ""Moving Pictures"". The song's lyrics were written by Neil Peart with music written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. ""Limelight"" expresses Peart's discomfort with Rush's success and the resulting attention from the public. The song paraphrases the opening lines of the ""All the world's a stage"" speech from William Shakespeare's play ""As You Like It""; the band had previously used the phrase for its 1976 live"
"Natalie Clein and Matthew Barley. In December 2010, ""Times"" columnist Giles Coren attended a night and said afterwards: ""Limelight avoids the tedium of a restaurant, the horror of a ‘gig’ and the pole-up-your-arse stiffness of most classical venues, and provides something genuinely original, fun and really rather classy."" Limelight has featured in several magazines and newspapers since it started, including ""The Guardian Guide"", ""Financial Times"", ""Evening Standard"", ""Metro"", ""Muso"" magazine, ""Classical Music"" magazine, ""Classic FM Magazine"", ""Time Out"" and ""Music Teacher"" magazine. The night has been supported by Classic FM, with presenter Nick Bailey one of its most dedicated attendees."
"active participants to passive viewers, most noticeably in the parterre. While there is consensus among scholars that such a transformation occurred, how and why it occurred is highly contested. Towards the end of the 18th century, theater designs and lighting technology improved dramatically. Previously, the theaters' lighting came from individual candles surrounding the stage, small chandeliers hanging from the boxes, or larger chandeliers that illuminated the whole theater. The smoke from the candles often surrounded the stage with a cloud of haze, leading one historian to remark, “spectators sometimes saw one another more clearly than the performers.” New lighting systems,"
"be lighted by a long stick with a flaming wad of cotton at the end. For many years, an attendant or gas boy moved along the long row of jets, lighting them individually while gas was escaping from the whole row. Both actors and audiences complained of the escaping gas, and explosions sometimes resulted from its accumulation."" These problems with gas lighting led to the rapid adoption of electric lighting. By 1881, the Savoy Theatre in London was using incandescent lighting. As electric lighting was being introduced to theatre stages, people who still were using gas theatre lighting developed the"
"Spotlight (theatre lighting) A spotlight (or followspot) is a powerful stage lighting instrument which projects a bright beam of light onto a performance space. Spotlights are controlled by a spotlight operator who tracks actors around the stage. Spotlights are most commonly used in concerts, musicals and large scale presentations where highlighting a specific mobile individual is critical. Spotlights are sometimes located overhead on catwalks. In some theatres, they may also be located in the control booth or purposely built ""spot booths"" in addition to the catwalk. Spotlights may be arranged in a variety of patterns for coverage. For example, they"
"Spotlight (theatre lighting) A spotlight (or followspot) is a powerful stage lighting instrument which projects a bright beam of light onto a performance space. Spotlights are controlled by a spotlight operator who tracks actors around the stage. Spotlights are most commonly used in concerts, musicals and large scale presentations where highlighting a specific mobile individual is critical. Spotlights are sometimes located overhead on catwalks. In some theatres, they may also be located in the control booth or purposely built ""spot booths"" in addition to the catwalk. Spotlights may be arranged in a variety of patterns for coverage. For example, they"
"theatres, but surprisingly it promoted more filmgoing rather than curtailing it. ""Limelight"" is probably a unique film in at least one interesting respect. Its two leads, Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom, were in the industry in no less than three different centuries. In the 19th Century, Chaplin made his theatrical debut at the age of eight, in 1897, in a clog dancing troupe, The Eight Lancaster Lads. In the 21st Century, Bloom is still enjoying a full and productive career, having appeared in dozens of films and television series produced up to and including 2013. She received particular acclaim for"
"(limelight), a large mirror, and a large sheet of plate glass upon which to reflect the images. The glass had to be erected so that it sat at a forty-five degree angle at the front of the stage and, it had to be housed in a box specially built for transport. The final component was a platform-type stage built high enough to accommodate the actors (the ghosts) who worked directly below and to the front of the stage, as well as the limelight worker, whose job it was to illuminate the actors whose images were reflected onto and through the"