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Green Hippo Hippotizer Software v3.2

LONDON – Green Hippo has launched Hippotizer version 3.2 software, available for download from the website. The software offers new features and more than 100 enhancements and is suitable for installation on HippoCritter, GrassHopper, HippoPortamus and HD models.

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Whom Do You Serve?

In late January, I attended Super Saturday in New York. It is an all day event put on by Sonny Sonnenfeld and Scott Parker from StageSeminars.com. The aim of the event is to educate and introduce students to lighting design, new technologies and products available in the market.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood production photo by Joan Marcus

Demystifying “Drood”

Charles Dickens never completed the story of Edwin Drood because he died during its creation. Thus composer/lyricist Rupert Holmes fashioned a tongue-in-cheek, self-referential musical (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) about the story that takes place in London’s Music Hall Royale in 1895. It’s a show within a show — there is a chairman leading us through everything, and the actors even come out in costume prior to the show to warm theatergoers up before setting about performing a bawdy murder mystery.

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The three-stage setup within St. Louis’ Edward Jones Dome eased transitions.

Urbana 12: Five Days, Three Stages

Dodd Technologies Supports InterVarsity’s Big Year-End Conference
It’s a concert. It’s a church. It’s a theater. It’s an intimate space that takes up half a football dome. It’s Urbana, a collegiate Christian mission conference staged in St. Louis’ Edward Jones Dome the last week of December. Close to 16,000 college-age men and women participated — some dressed for church, most in hoodies and jeans — attending up to seven hours each day over a five-day span for a mix of entertainment, information and spiritual inspiration.

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Howard Ungerleider, LD for Rush. Photo by Steve Jennings

Rush’s Clockwork Angels Tour

LD Howard Ungerleider Choreographs the Lighting
For Rush’s latest album, Clockwork Angels, science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson expanded drummer Neil Peart’s lyrics into a novel that depicts a colorful world of Steampunk, lost cities and a protagonist caught between the forces of chaos and order. For the live concert experience, Howard Ungerleider’s lighting design, or “choreography,” dances with video elements during the three-hour show.

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