DATES: Feb.-Oct., 2017. “A weekend-warrior schedule.”
THE DESIGN: “As we do festivals, fairs and clubs, the design needs to stay flexible, so I look carefully at fixture types, placement and purpose.”
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With Glenn Close returning to the character of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, the role that won her the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical 22 years ago, one wonders what the creative team could do to top the previous production. As Sunset’s new scenic designer James Noone notes, the last mansion set was enormous and very realistic. “It was a beautiful, stunningly executed, Gothic Hollywood movie palace that came down from the flies and moved forward,” he says.
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KATOWICE, Poland – Once again, Aram designed and built the multimedia stage for Intel Extreme Masters 2017. Along with the huge and complex main stage, Aram designed and built three smaller stages for IEM Expo and other supporting structures for this mega-gaming event.
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PLSN caught up with Bon Jovi’s longtime designer Doug “Spike” Brant of Nimblist, the company he runs with Justin Collie based out of Lancaster, PA. Together the two designers and their team put on various immersive entertainment projects, live sports, broadcast specials, festivals and special events and most notably concert tours with the likes of Lady Gaga, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, just to name a few. We spoke with Brant about his work on the current Bon Jovi — This House Is Not For Sale Tour, along with lighting director and automation programmer Joe Bay.
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Spike Brant and Justin Collie Rebrand
Performance Environment Design Group (PEDG), noted for their creative work in the live event and installation world and currently designing the Bon Jovi tour, has rebranded.
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Unique “Organ Pipe” Look Gets Additional Video Halfway Through Sell-Out Tour
“They are big, ugly, and intimidating when they are sitting in their set carts,” Jason Rothberg says of The Lumineers’ set for their Cleopatra world tour. “But once they are flown, lit and have content going through the Sceptrons, they make a beautiful transformation.”
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HOUSTON – Lady Gaga gave a scintillating, high-flying performance at the Super Bowl 51 Halftime Show at the NRG Stadium in Houston. Opening with God Bless America on the roof of the stadium she leapt to the stage before cramming seven of her greatest hits into the 12-minute show. The acrobatics throughout were stunning. Everything, from ‘Shooting Star’ drones flying in unison above the stadium to create the American flag to the stage surrounded by fire and Glow Motion torches, was top drawer.
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HOUSTON – On Feb. 5, Houston, Texas played host to the NFL’s Super Bowl LI, at NRG Stadium. Entertaining the crowds in the hotly anticipated Pepsi Zero Sugar Halftime Show was Lady Gaga, whose performance earned the respect of millions in an intense 12-minute spectacular that was viewed by over 115 million people worldwide. The show was another world-class collaboration from co-production designers, Bruce Rodgers of Tribe Inc., LeRoy Bennett of Seven Design Works, and lighting designer Bob Barnhart of 22 Degrees.
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FOR-A’s HVS-100 Express will be featured at NAB 2017 in booth C5117. The HVS-100 Express is part of the company’s offerings which will be featured at the show. It expands the company’s 1 M/E HVS-100 video switcher series.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — Chauvet Professional featured its Ovation E-260WW white light and Ovation E-910FC full color LED fixtures in the spotlight at the recent USITT conference and expo in St. Louis, MO. The company reported record crowds at its booth during the 2017 event.
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FALCON, MO — Le Maitre noted the opening of a facility in rural Missouri where it will be making pyrotechnics and special effects including 150’ and 200’ Comets, as well as Flames and Gun Shot products. The U.S. facility expands on the company’s U.K.-based manufacturing operations.
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MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands – Nearly 100 Claypaky Sharpys were used for an eight-hour light show to 2,000 partygoers at an underground club hosted by Dutch techno music agency Claydrum at Complex nightclub, Maastricht for New Year’s Eve. Dutch production designer Joël Lemmerling, from Maastricht-based production company, Stöd, selected 96 of the multi-award winning Sharpy fixtures to create a fastidious design formulated by gridded white, colored and UV light beams and clever manipulation of angles.
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