NEW YORK — Nominations for the 70th annual Tony Awards ceremony were announced May 3. Hamilton received a record 16 nominations, including Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Howell Binkley) and Best Scenic Design of a Musical (David Korins). The awards ceremony, to be hosted by James Corden and broadcast live on CBS, will take place at New York’s Beacon Theatre on June 12.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – English alt rock band-of-the-moment The 1975 are touring the UK and Europe with an inspired video screen and light staging concept created by show director Tobias Rylander and augmented by Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330, Mythos and Alpha Profile 1500 fixtures.
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BOSTON – Darren Lussier and Brian McNamara of Image Production Services provided Boston-themed visuals for the Smith & Nephew booth at the Arthroscopy Association of North America convention using the PVP X3 LED video panel from Chauvet Professional. The event took place April 14-16 at the John B. Hynes Veteran Memorial Convention Center in Boston.
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LAS VEGAS – An audience of roughly 185 industry professionals applauded as ESTA’s Production Equipment Rental Group (PERG) honored two New York City Police Detectives from the Major Case Squad, Martin Pastor and Anthony Diaz, who have recovered more than $700,000 worth of stolen equipment over the past nine months. The award was given at PERG’s annual general membership meeting on Tuesday, April 19th at NAB in Las Vegas.
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Eyevis’ EYE-TOLED-5500-TIGF40 is a transparent OLED display with a screen diagonal of 55 inch and a high-quality InGlass touch surface for up to 40 simultaneous touch points. Thanks to the high transmissivity of the panel and the self- luminous properties of the OLED material, this innovative display type is a first choice for installations in the center of interior designs, any- where between objects and viewers, in front of exhibits and products that require illustrations.
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tvOne noted the release of v2.2 software for the company’s CORIOmaster and CORIOmaster mini. New features include ‘immediate mode,’ which lets users perform edge-blending and video monitor placement in real time rather than clicking ‘take’ after each adjustment.
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Elation Professional has added to its family of LED strobes with the new Protron 3K Color, a high-power LED strobe light featuring 240 CREE XLamp 3W RGBW LEDs and 40,000 lumens of power for an explosion of color. The Protron 3K Color promises a powerful punch of colored light.
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AMSTERDAM – Dutch House DJ Fedde Le Grand performed his Grand 2016 event at Amsterdam’s 20,000 capacity Ziggo Dome in mid-March. The sold out event featured an impressive lighting design by JJ Rotte from Dutch lighting and visual creative practice Light Image. Rotte included more than 200 Robe moving lights in the design. The lighting complemented a set design by Sightline Productions and included 43 Robe BMFL Spots, 65 Pointes, 64 LEDBeam 1000s and 48 CycFX 8 fixtures.
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HANNOVER, Germany – It might be unusual for the head of a world power to pay a visit to any company’s trade show booth. But Harting Technology Group noted that both U.S. president Barack Obama and Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit, at the same time, to the company’s booth during the opening of the world’s largest industrial trade show, which took place April 25-29 at the Hannover Messe exhibition center.
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RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Stage drapery manufacturer, Sew What? Inc. has produced another unique opening show drape for this year’s Kenny Chesney’s “Spread the Love” Tour, which kicked off April 23 in Auburn, AL. The tour will support the artist’s Noise album, which is due out early this summer.
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