ESQUIRE
JAUCHEM'S SPECIAL EFFECTS RESUME
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CO-FOUNDER
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Jauchem & Meeh Special Effects
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Full service effects shop able to
design, demo, manufacture, deliver and operate effects packages
uniquely suited to the clients' needs. Experienced skilled crews of
equipment operators, licensed pyrotechnicians and weapon handlers.
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THEATRE
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Cyrano
- Broadway |
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Damn Yankees
- Broadway |
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An Inspector
Calls - Broadway
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Crazy For
You - Broadway & National Tour |
An
Inspector Calls:
"The brilliant special
effects out Disney-Disney" ̶ Clive Barnes, NY POST
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Angels In
America - Broadway |
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Tommy
- Broadway and National Tour |
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Miss Saigon
- Broadway & National Tour |
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Kentucky
Cycle - Washington DC & Broadway |
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Jelly's Last
Jam - Broadway |
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Abe Lincoln
In Illinois - Lincoln Center |
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Into The
Woods - Broadway & National Tour |
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Anything
Goes - Vivian Beaumont Theatre |
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Les
Miserables - Broadway & National Tour |
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Five Guys
Named Moe - National Tour |
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Geniuses -
Playwrights Horizons |
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Runaways -
NY Public Theatre & Broadwayr |
Geniuses:
"Great special effects"
̶ Clive Barnes, NEW YORK POST
"Magisterial special
effects team" ̶ John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"The special effects...
bash the stage with enough rain to drown Ranchipur... a typhoon
easily a match for the 'K2' avalanche." ̶ Mel Gussow, NY TIMES
"Not only creates the
best typhoon I have ever seen on stage, but has the best bio
I have seen in a theatre program." ̶ THE VILLAGE VOICE
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Rommel's
Garden - Harold Clurman Theatre |
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Paradise
- Playwrights Horizons |
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The Search
For Signs Of Intelligent Life
In The Universe - Lily Tomlin, Broadway |
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Fighting
International Fat - Playwrights Horizons |
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Portraits In
Reflection - Lucinda Childs Dance Co., Robert Mapplethorpe
Decor |
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The Gospel
At Colonus - Brooklyn Academy, Next Wave Festival with Morgan
Freeeman |
Portraits In Reflection:
"Astounding lighting
also computerizes reality. A glowing orb above the stage,
a flower appears, changes color, explodes in a flash of light." ̶
NEW YORK TIMES
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Porgy And
Bess - Houston Grand Opera, National & International Tourr |
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Showboat
- Houston Grand Opera, Broadway
& National Tour |
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Juan Darian -
Theatre at St. Clement's, Director/Designer, Julie Taymor |
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Alice In
Wonderland - Broadway starring Eva Le Galienne |
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Singin' In
The Rain - Broadway, Directed by Twyla Tharp |
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Monday After
The Miracle - Broadway |
OPERA
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Nabucco -
Miami Opera, New York City Opera & Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los
Angeles)
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Nabucco:
"God used dazzling laser
beams for the lightning that struck both Nabucco and Abagaile
for their hubris... special attention was lavished on picturesque and
startling stage effects...
Baal's statue was blown apart by what seemed to be a small nuclear
device." ̶ NEW YORK TIMES
"This was a show where
one went out humming the special effects." ̶ CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Some of the greatest
pyrotechnic feats seen on any stage. Flaming torches and bolts of
lightning
brought realism and a touch of theatrical magic to the production."
̶ MIAMI NEWS
"Special effects as
dazzling as 'Close Encounters'... fires, thunder, lightning, smoke and
pyrotechnics
of every imaginable sort worthy of movie spectaculars." ̶
MIAMI SUN
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Der
Freischutz
- Opera Company of Boston, Director Sarah Caldwell |
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The
Photographer
- BAM Opera House, Music by Philip Glass, Director Joanne Akalaitis |
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Ghosts Of
Versailles - Metropolitan Opera
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Attila
- New York City Opera & National Tour |
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War & Piece -
American premiere of Prokofiev's opera, Opera Company of Boston & Wolf
Trap Farm
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War & Peace:
"The
detonations at Borodino, illuminating cameos of battle action behind the
scrim,
unleashed a powerful odor of gunpowder but were artfully timed." ̶
THE NEW YORKER
"There hasn't been such
a pungent scent of gunpowder in the area since Concord bridge
as flares went soaring skyward, and the burning of Moscow sent billows of
smoke across the stage."
̶ THE NATIONAL OBSERVER
"The Battle of Borodino
in all of its blood-curdling might" ̶ NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"The smoke and flames of
burning Moscow (ravaged once again by Esquire Jauchem's
incredible special effects)" ̶ THE BOSTON PHOENIX
"It burns Moscow as its
inhabitants did in 1812, filling the Orpheum Theatre with smoke
and simulated flame... creating an awesome spectacle to magnificent
music."
̶ Elliot Norton, BOSTON HERALD ̶ MIAMI SUN
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Russlan And
Ludmilla
- American
Premiere, Opera Company of Boston |
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Les Troyens
- American Premiere starring Regine Crespin, Opera Company Of Boston |
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Der Freischutz -
New York City Opera
and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles)
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Der Freischutz:
"Appropriately spooky
special effects... The opera's terrifying climax
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The Wolf's Glen
Scene ̶
with it's flock
of birds, wild boar, hounds of hell, and the demon Samiel...
was the tour de force it should be."
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THE NEW YORK
DAILY NEWS
"During the macabre
drama, particularly in the haunted forest scene, the special effects
by Jauchem & Meeh manage to frighten us to the point where we don't want
to laugh, which isn't
an easy job considering our skeptical contemporary eyes and ears."
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THE NEW YORK POST
"The pandemonium is the
expert work of special effects artists Esquire Jauchem and Gregory Meeh.
Unlike their Met counterparts, they have not stinted on the printed
stage-directions!"
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NEW YORK MAGAZINE
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Hansel &
Gretel - Opera Company Of Boston |
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Faust
- Opera Company Of Boston
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Othello & La
Boheme -
American premiere of
opera in the round featuring James McCracken and Placido Domingo,
Opera Colorado (Denver)
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Othello & La Boheme:
"Special effects were
spectacular. The first act storm and cannon fire
almost had the audience ducking for cover while smoke drifted across the
stage, lightning bolts smote
the atmosphere and storm winds howled. During Othello's love duet with
Desdemona
'The Burning Pleiades' lighted the heavens"
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN
NEWS
"Tenor James McCracken
made a point of saying that he was absolutely sure that Jauchem was
working on the atomic bomb!"
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN
NEWS
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Macbeth
- Starring Shirley Verrett, Opera Company of Boston |
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Norma
- Starring Beverly Sills, Opera Company of Boston
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The Vampyre -
Wolf Trap Farm, Opera Company of Boston, New England Tour
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The
Vampyre:
"The stage
effects...include great clouds of fog and a moon that
shifts in the best eerie manner from ghastly white to blood red. Added
touches include flying bats,
streaks of lightning and bursts of thunder"
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Paul Hume,
WASHINGTON POST
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La Donna Del
Lago - Design by Ming Cho Lee, Houston Grand Opera
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La
Donna Del Lago:
"A meteorite appeared at one point, fog billowed from behind every rock."
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NEW YORK TIMES
"The startling
phenomenon of a gleaming silver comet rushing on a diagonal trajectory."
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HOUSTON
CHRONICLEs
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Relative
Calm - Design by Robert Wilson, BAM Opera House & French Tour
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Relative Calm:
"Stars and moon like
those of God the Father"
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LE MONDE, Paris
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The Flying
Dutchman & Aida -
Wolf Trap Farm &
Opera Company of Boston
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Montezuma
- American
Premiere, Opera Company of Boston
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The
Flying Dutchman & Aida:
"The special effects
were the work of Esquire Jauchem,
whose smoke, fire, and storms have added wondrously to the dramatic impact
of the
Boston troupe's engagement here."
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Paul Hume,
WASHINGTON POST
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Media -
Opera Company of Boston, Director Sarah Caldwell
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Media:
"Not only does the
temple go up in flames, but Medea herself ascends in a fiery chariot
to rejoin her ancestor, the sun. Then in a coup worthy of Samson, the
temple crumbles and collapses
amid the cowering cast."
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BERKSHIRE EAGLE
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CONCERTS &
EVENTS
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Madonna -
World Tour |
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Disney
Summer Magic
- Radio City Music Hall |
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Big Apple
Circus -
First tour including performances at the Lincoln Center Plaza |
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The Glory of
Easter -
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA
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Be Glad
Then America -
American Premiere of John LaMontaigne's U.S. Bicentennial opera, Penn State
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Be
Glad Then America:
"...a major victory in
the Bicentennial cultural events race."
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NEW YORK TIME
Electronic fireworks
display later used by the National Symphony as they
played the National Anthem
for the July 4, 1976 Bicentennial and broadcast
nationally.
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Coca Cola -
Industrial, Atlanta |
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Mars Candy -
Industrial, Miami |
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IBM -
Industrial, Bermuda |
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FILM &
TELEVISION
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The Nutcracker
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Feature film, Designed by Maurice Sendak,
Directed by Carroll Ballard |
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Fool’s Fire
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Television special, Directed by Julie
Taymor |
PUBLICATIONS
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Effects For The Theater
- Co-Authored with British designer, Graham Walne
Published by A&C Black, London, 1995 |
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
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United Scenic Artists
- First Special Effects Member, NYC |
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U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)
- Sustaining Member
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NON-EFFECTS
RELATED CREDITS
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