I ran into LD Beverly Emmons at USITT, and she was very excited about the Theatrical Lighting Database, which is now online at a site hosted by the New York Public Library, in conjunction with The Lighting Archive. The idea of the database is to provide access to original lighting documents, including actual plots, focus charts, cue sheets and much more. So far there is information from four landmark productions digitized from the collections of the New York Public Library:
A Chorus Line
Tharon Musser, Lighting Designer
Opened on Broadway September 1975
Fall River Legend
Thomas Skelton, Lighting Designer
ABT, 1991 season at the Metropolitan Opera
Hair
Jules Fisher, Lighting Designer
Opened on Broadway April 1968
Sunday in the Park with George
Richard Nelson, Lighting Designer
Opened on Broadway 1984
Hopefully this is just the beginning a great online database—and an essential archive for the lighting industry.