Cinders in the limelight

This is my last fairy-tale manip (honest)

Cinders and the prince
The theatre curtains the Dames Thank you so much

I attempted to recreate an old Victorian Pantomime theatre look. The thespians among you will see I haven’t got a clue about lighting a stage.
I was going for the lime-lit look. (Useless information below)

The Scottish engineer Thomas Drummond invented the limelight in 1816. He used a core of limestone (Calcium) that was heated to incandescence by a burning mixture of oxygen and hydrogen.
The incandescent limestone provided very brilliant light that could be directed and focused. Its intensity made it useful for spotlighting and for the realistic simulation of effects such as sunlight and moonlight. It could also be used for general stage illumination. The limelight required constant attention of an individual operator, who had to keep adjusting the block of limestone as it burned and to tend to the gas that fuelled it.