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The Jacksons

White Light Supplies The Jacksons’ Unity Tour

LONDON – White Light supplied lighting for The Jacksons’ Unity Tour, which packed venues across the UK in March. For the UK leg of the tour, Knight and production manager Scotty Ross worked with Lester Cobrin, White Light’s head of concert touring, to choose the layout of the lighting rig. Having already toured the show in America, Knight decided to go in a new direction with the lighting for the UK leg.

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Passion City Church

Bandit Lites Teams Up for Easter Services

NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites aided LD Ed White and production manager Ian Cattle of Black and White Live Ltd. in creating two Easter-related services for Passion City Church. The challenge was making the rig suitable for two different shows: the Friday night service in the dark, and the Sunday morning service in daylight.

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Luke Bryan

Chauvet Epix Fixtures Enhance Luke Bryan’s Tour

SUNRISE, FL — Chosen for their video and pixel-mapping abilities, 130 Chauvet Professional ÉPIX Strip and 16 ÉPIX Bar fixtures complete the design for country singer Luke Bryan’s Dirt Road Diaries tour. LD Justin Kitchenman chose the fixtures as a way to expand the video surfaces throughout the lighting rig.

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Lighting Hospital

Lighting Hospital Expands, Moves to Larger Premises

BRISTOL, UK – The Lighting Hospital – an independent electronic service department for the professional lighting industry – has recently moved to new expanded premises in Bristol. This has enabled further streamlining of its processes to offer an even faster and slicker service for damaged lighting gear needing emergency treatment. Industry engineer Dik Welland launched the company in 2009.

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The main stage for Ultra Music Festival 2013 was made from 176 smaller pyramids

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Draws 330,000 to Miami

With more than 200 DJs and other artists on seven stages over two three-day weekends (March 15-17 and 22-24), book-ending (and dwarfing) the annual Winter Music Conference from which it sprang in 1999, the 15th annual Ultra Music Festival smashed its own impressive records for growth by drawing some 330,000 revelers to Miami’s Bayfront Park, doubling 2012’s 165,000 attendee count.

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Kinky Boots production photo by Matthew Murphy

Kinky Boots on Broadway

One of the most buzz-worthy Broadway shows of the spring season is Kinky Boots, the pop musical from composer/lyricist Cyndi Lauper and writer Harvey Fierstein. Adapted from the 2005 British film of the same name, which was itself inspired by real-life events, it tells the tale of Charlie Price, an aimless twentysomething who moves to London with his success-driven girlfriend Nicola, only to be summoned back to his hometown of Northampton after his father passes away. With the family shoe business deteriorating, Charlie reluctantly takes over to try to save jobs and the company. A chance encounter with a drag queen named Lola inspires him to specialize in kinky boots for cross-dressing men who need strong high heels, but at first it’s a hard sell to his employees, some of whom will need to accept Lola as the designer and accept their change of direction. It’s a story about overcoming prejudice and sometimes embracing the outrageous.

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