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Cory Pattak

Cory Pattak

Lighting designer

Oct 15, 2026

10:39
prolific film score composers of all time.
10:42
I think John Williams, there are two things about him that I find to be singular and amazing.
10:48
Number one, there's a thing in music that people talk about, which is an inevitability, which is to say that like when you hear a melody or when you hear music, it doesn't feel like that the composer made a choice with those notes.
11:01
It feels like that they were the only choice available.
11:04
You know, if you if you listen to a John Williams score, you know, da da da da.
11:09
Right.
11:10
The only thing I can hear is that is the end of that sequence.

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What the timeline for you for lighting design really looks like a means for a Broadway production? I
DennisHOST
13:56
[laughs]
13:56
... um, when you could still go to Barnes & Noble, uh, if you were lucky, and find, uh, a Lighting Dimensions on the shelf, which is crazy now to think that you'd find that just, like, in a normal bookstore or a bookstore, period.
14:09
Um, so, so, so I, when I was in high school, I was, you know, obsessed with the articles and reading, uh, and I would get Entertainment Design, right? And so, like, of course, like, you'd find them lying around, like, your, your, like, tech booth at your high school.
14:24
There'd be, like, huge Entertainment Design.
14:26
So I was, like, really into these... 'Cause I, I lived in Pittsburgh.
14:30
I didn't, uh, I had never been to New York.
14:32
I'd never seen a Broadway show.

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EllenHOST
47:55
So why do you say that cue one is the most important cue in the show?
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[laughs]
13:56
... um, when you could still go to Barnes & Noble, uh, if you were lucky, and find, uh, a Lighting Dimensions on the shelf, which is crazy now to think that you'd find that just, like, in a normal bookstore or a bookstore, period.
14:09
Um, so, so, so I, when I was in high school, I was, you know, obsessed with the articles and reading, uh, and I would get Entertainment Design, right? And so, like, of course, like, you'd find them lying around, like, your, your, like, tech booth at your high school.
14:24
There'd be, like, huge Entertainment Design.
14:26
So I was, like, really into these 'cause I, I lived in Pittsburgh.
14:30
I didn't, uh, I had never been to New York.
14:32
I'd never seen a Broadway show.

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EllenHOST
47:55
So why do you say that cue one is the most important cue in the show?

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