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Christmas Present A local scene shop, a visual designer and the right kind of snow come together to re-create Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale in a department store's windows
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Then they began to talk snow.
They agreed they didn't want the soft feathery snow that sifts
down on the ballerinas in "The Nutcracker." Lovely snow, dramatic
snow, snow that the audience never fails to applaud, but snow that's
a chore to clean up. Their snow, they knew, must fall from 9 in the
morning till 8 at night, and that's a lot of snow.
So their snow, they decided, would be pale snowflakes painted on
clear plastic, a continuous sheet that runs between roller-drums.
With the right lighting, this snow would give the illusion of snow.
It would look real. But theatrical, too. It would be ...
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