User:Brucehs/sandbox/history of lighting design

=Draft of a history section for lighting designer page=

While lighting has been used in live performance since origin of theater, the role of a lighting designer was only formalized in the early 20th centuryLowell. Jean Rosenthal was the first person credited as one.{{cite web|url=http://www.northern.edu/wild/jr.htm |title=Jean Rosenthal biography |accessdate=2009-05-20 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020824231526/http://www.northern.edu/wild/jr.htm |archivedate=August 24, 2002 }} northern.edu, retrieved May 20, 2009 Thomas R. Skelton. Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer.

Tharon Musser introduced computerized lighting consoles to Broadway with the 1975 production of A Chorus Line.{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=2009-04-21 |title=Tharon Musser, Stage Lighting Designer, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/theater/21musser.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008135048/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/theater/21musser.html |archive-date=2018-10-08 |access-date=2020-12-20}} This allowed shows to exceed the previous limitations imposed by piano boards and the electricians required to operated them (a maximum of three electricians and six boards).