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Tharon Musser
American lighting designer (–)
Tharon Myrene Musser (January 8, &#; April 19, )[1] was an American lighting designer who worked on more than Broadway productions.
She was termed the "Dean of American Lighting Designers" and is considered one of the pioneers in her field.[2]
Musser was best known for her work on the musicals A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls.
A Chorus Line was the first production of Broadway to use a fully computerized lighting console instead of manually operated "piano boards".[2]
Biography
Musser was born in Virginia in [3] The daughter of a clergyman, she often recalled that her family couldn't afford electricity, so she grew up with candles and gaslights.
She graduated from Berea College (Kentucky) in and later attended Yale University, obtaining her MFA in Her first Broadway lighting credit was José Quintero's staging of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night in at the original Helen H