LOS ANGELES – Mark Ferber, 60, a longtime production supervisor at the Hollywood Bowl, died March 14. A memorial service for Ferber will be held on-stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 11 a.m. It is open to the public.
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NEW YORK—After a world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the new musical American Idiot has just started preview performances on Broadway. Its energetic, generational, media-saturated set is fed by 15 Hippotizer HD V3 media servers supplied to the production by SenovvA, Inc. supported by Green Hippo Special Projects division.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – LSC Lighting Systems, the Australian based manufacturer of lighting control systems, named LMP Lichttechnik as their new exclusive distribution partner for Germany and Austria. LMP is based in Ibbenbüren, in the north of Germany.
Read More »STONINGTON, CT – Robert "Bob-O" O'Bleness, 48, a Muskogee, Okla.-based truck driver carrying stage equipment for Carrie Underwood's Play On tour for a performance at Foxwoods Casino's MGM Grand Theater, was killed in a highway accident early March 20.
Read More »NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has been named the sole distributor partner of Wireless Solution products in the United States. Wireless Solution is the creator of W-DMX technology, introduced in 2004.
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HONG KONG – Robert Juliat dealer Pacific Lighting Ltd provided 24 RJ 611SX profiles for the City Hall Concert Hall, the largest interior venue within the Hong Kong City Hall complex, which also houses a theatre, an exhibition hall, gallery and numerous restaurants. The fixtures have been installed on the Front-of-House bridges.
Read More »The power quality analyzer looks much like an ordinary multimeter, perhaps a bit larger, and it has a 3-inch-by-3-inch LCD display. It's actually a combination… Read More »Power Quality Analyzer: More than a Multimeter
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CHICAGO – Billy Elliot the Musical, staged in London, Sydney and New York, is now going worldwide. Its U.S. tour kicked off in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, on March 18. By the end of 2010, a production will move to a different U.S. city every three or four weeks.
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LONDON – Now under the management of Blackfriars' newly-created Blackfriars Promotions, the 2,500-plus capacity Victorian Coronet Theatre offers an array of in-house events supported by a lighting system upgrade including GLP's new Impression 120 RZ zoom fixtures.
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LONDON – The Really Useful Group, producers of Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, worked with Stage Technologies and Delstar Engineering for the automation system for the West End production at the Adelphi Theatre.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – More than 200 lighting fixtures from Elation Professional and 650 LED fixtures plus lighting control from Acclaim, supplied by FUNA International, are installed aboard the 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas cruise ship, which was launched recently by Royal Caribbean International.
Read More »NORTHFIELD, OH – Stage Research has signed Biyao Ltd. Co. in Beijing as its master distributor in China. Biyao Ltd. Co. sells professional sound equipment and software solutions to a wide range of customers in China, including theaters, schools, conference centers and theme parks.
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