Bill Klages

Birth : 1927-01-01,

Movies

Beauty and the Beast: A Concert on Ice
Lighting Design
A retelling of the Disney film, Beauty and the Beast (1991), on ice. This also included live singers from the Broadway stage show, and clips of the animated film.
A Raisin in the Sun
Lighting Design
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Sunday in the Park with George
Lighting Coordinator
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with George," book writer James Lapine and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim bring a story based on the work brilliantly to life. While the painting depicts people gathered on an island in the Seine, the musical goes beyond simply describing their lives. It is an exploration of art, of love, of commitment. Seurat connected dots to create images; Lapine and Sondheim use connection as the heart of all our relationships. Winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season five, episode nineteen).
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
Lighting Design
An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers." A king hires him to rid his castle of ghosts and evil spirits, expecting him to die like all who have tried before him, but the boy is more fearless than he could have known.
Little Red Riding Hood
Lighting Design
A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Lighting Design
Imaginative and creative Jack seeks adventure while trying to provide for himself and his mother. Will he ever solve the mystery of how his father died?
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Lighting Design
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
Dolly and Carol in Nashville
Lighting Director
Variety special featuring songs and skits with Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett.
The Lie
Lighting Director
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
The Lie
Director of Photography
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon
Lighting Director
Investigator Jonathon Fletcher and his assistant Sajeed Rau investigate an apparently haunted mansion at the request of the woman who has inherited it.
The Crucible
Lighting Director
Landmark adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.