David Byrne & St. Vincent Tour
Food on the Road
What is one of the most important aspects of touring, and also one of the things we’re most likely to take for granted? It is something that every single one of us requires, at a minimum, two times a day. Did the title give it away? That’s right, food!
For Justin Lang’s video introduction to PLSN’s Sept. 2013 issue, go to www.plsn.me/201309ednote.
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TOUR: Alice in Chains, headlining act for the Uproar Festival tour
UPROAR FEST DATES: Aug. 9 to Sept. 15, 2013
THE DESIGN: “Nearly all moving lights and LED screens are designed to bend like a shell around the band. The screens’ hanging angles and shape of the lighting trusses help accomplish this. We’ve got 68 moving lights, six small LEDs and five conventional blinders. For LED screens we have six larger panels over the stage and four smaller panels across the front truss.”
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Pippin Power
When Tony Awards season arrives, theatre mavens are sometimes befuddled by certain choices that have been made and shows that have been slighted. But when PLSN caught Pippin after it opened this spring, it was obvious why it was nominated for, and won, a slew of those coveted accolades. Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus has revived a 40-year old show and created a vibrant spectacle complete with athletic performers telling a tale of passionate soul searching and patricide under the alluring aura of a circus big top.
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Justin Bieber’s “Believe” World Tour
Justin Bieber’s Believe Tour, which began a year ago and runs through December, has the 19-year-old Canadian and his vast entourage flying around the world with more than 150 shows in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Central and South America, Asia, the Middle East, South Africa and Australia.
Apart from the look of the show’s opening, where Justin Bieber makes a winged entrance, tour director/production designer Tom Marzullo created the show visuals with little more than a one-word directive from Bieber and manager Scooter Braun — to make it “epic.”
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James Turrell’s “Aten Reign” at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum
“It looks like the rings of Saturn,” said one observer, craning his neck to grab the attention of his companion to his left.
Nearby, another individual, standing amid a small huddled mass people, blurts out, “It makes my eyes bug out.”
Still others remain silent and still, not verbalizing their thoughts as they lay supine as if glued to the floor, their eyes turned skyward, mesmerized by a series of mysterious and monolithic elliptical bands, which float above their heads, changing colors at regular intervals.
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TLS Productions, Inc.
Solaris LED Flare
Audience blinders are perfect for those times during a production when the talent on stage wants to see the people who came to see them. During those moments, as the name of the fixtures suggest, the lighting crew gets to turn its attention from blinding the performers and start abusing the optic nerves of the audience as well, using thousands of watts of tungsten or high discharge lamp sources.
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Capture Polar 3D Visualizer
It all starts with a great idea in your head. Maybe you were at the bar, and you drew your thoughts out on a cocktail napkin. Isn’t that how all great designs begin? That beer-stained napkin may have helped you preserve that initial flash of inspiration, but when it comes to presenting our amazing visual ideas in all their detailed glory to the people who will be paying your fees, it’s a good idea to seek out a more professional-looking alternative.
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