94 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.14
Behind
The
Scenes
City Lights
arts
the
bits
Choose a
Character
"We're basically doing
a variety show of 15
well-known pieces from
the classical canon
ó Richard III, Pedro
Calderón de la Barca's
The Phantom Lady.
The commedia style is
known for archetypal
character masks. I have
a lot of attachment to
Stupino, who is a little
bit like the Eeyore of
commedia. We'll do
these really tragic and
epic pieces through the
lens of Stupino. He'll cre-
ate trouble and a mess
and not realize it."
Erin Leigh Crites is
directing Commedia
Cannon!, Dec. 5-13
at the Alley Theatre
(633 W. Main St.).
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The city stores its Light Up Louisville deco-
rations ó including some 105,000 individual
lights (mostly LED) ó at three spots in town: the
warehouse of event-production company Axxis
on Ninth Street south of Broadway, the Event
Company in Portland, and Visual Presentations
in the old Naval Ordnance Station property near
the airport. "Many miles of light strands," says
Phil Miller, who's on the communications team in
the Mayor's Offce. The light display is through-
out downtown (through Jan. 4) but mainly along
Fourth Street, from Main to Broadway. Every
half-hour, a 12-minute light-and-music show
plays at Fourth and Jefferson. Like the rest of us,
do city workers ever plug in strands and discover
the lights are dead? "We have to replace a few
here and there," Miller says.