Rob Stevens – Haines His Way.
Pilot gets off to a fun start with a small group of friends gathered at Sally’s (Jacqueline Wright) Santa Monica mountaintop mansion to celebrate her 50th birthday. As the lights go up on Jeff G. Rack’s well-appointed and elaborate (for The Broadwater) scenic design, the friends are playing a murder mystery game after dinner. It’s a dark and stormy night (courtesy of Azra King-Abadi’s lightening highlighted lighting design, Shoshana Kuttners’s thunderous sound design and Fritz Davis’s never relenting projection design of torrential rainfall). The thunder is momentarily quieted by the droning of a small aircraft and then, crash, boom—a wing appears on the dining table and a dazed and possibly concussed pilot (Sol Mason) appears in the doorway, before collapsing. Read more…