LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Adlib provided lighting gear and crew for Russell Howard's Right Here Right Now U.K. arena tour, led by production manager Neil McDonald and Russell's tour manager, Russell Young.
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Elation's arena-scale CMY color-mixing Platinum Spot 15R Pro moving head is comparable to 700-watt and even 1,200-watt fixtures in output, yet is only about one-third the size of a conventional 700-watt moving head (16.1"L x 16.5"W x 21.3"H) and draws one-fourth the power.
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CHATSWORTH, CA – Branam Enterprises announced a new address. The company can now be reached at: 9152 Independence Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311; 818.885.6474; 818.885.6475 (Fax).
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LONDON – Impact Production Services (IPS) recently supplied, installed and operated a lighting package that included Martin MAC 101 LED moving heads for the European premiere of the Justin Bieber film Never Say Never at the O2 Arena.
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HELENA, MT – The rigging system in Helena Middle School's 1,065-seat theater had plenty to offer in the way of a unique backstage history lesson: a rope rigging equipment with original wood blocks that dated back to the 1930s, five counterweight systems with wire guides from the 1950s and 12 motorized yo-yo-style winches that had been installed in the 1970s. Some parts of the system were even handmade.
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DUBLIN – For a gala corporate event staged by WRG for a pharmaceutical company at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), DBN Lighting provided lighting gear, truss, rigging and crew.
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LONDON – Richard Martin Lighting, which purchased 100 Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures, provided 12 of the compact units to Lee Allen, lighting director for a popular children's TV show, Blue Peter. Weighing just 16kg, the 189W Sharpy produces a crisp beam that has been compared favorably to those produced by larger, higher-wattage fixtures.
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LONDON – For 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards ceremony, held March 13 in the 2,200-capacity Theatre Royal Drury Lane, White Light provided a lighting rig centered around 18 Martin MAC III fixtures and worked with drapes specialist Blackout Ltd. to dress the stage with starcloths.
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ARLINGTON, TX – Syncrolite fixtures used for lighting effects seen near the exterior entrances to Cowboys Stadium during Super Bowl XLV were controlled with technology from Wireless Solution Sweden AB. The visitor count onsite numbered 103,219, and close to 111 million more watched the event on TV.
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Read More »BERLIN – Berlin's Boulevard of Stars features a 350-meter-long lighting installation on Potsdamer Strasse that makes use of LumenRadio CRMX wireless lighting control.
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NEW YORK – Head electrician Eric Abbott has reported that the 20 VLX Wash fixtures provided by Hudson Sound and Light for the rig of American Idiot has saved "at least five to six hours per week" in crew work costs for the Broadway show, which first loaded-in to the St. James Theatre in February 2010.
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