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Gerriets Introduces VARIO 2.6 – The Dance Floor That Lasts

Gerriets Introduces VARIO 2.6 – The Dance Floor That Lasts

[caption id="attachment_279970" align="alignnone" width="800"]New flooring available from Gerriets[/caption]

EWING, NJ – VARIO 2.6 is a dimensionally stable, 2.6 mm thick, heavy duty dance vinyl perfect for all styles of dance. It is designed for long term installations in high wear environments making it a perfect choice for dance studios and heavily trafficked stages. In semi-permanent and permanent installations, it is recommended to be used over a floating floor such as our ERGODANCE sprung floors or for placement over VARIO Elastic to give extra cushion to each step. Vario 2.6 is one-sided, comes in three different colors and is available in full rolls only.

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The band performed July 21-23, 2017

The String Cheese Incident

[caption id="attachment_279800" align="alignnone" width="800"]The band performed July 21-23, 2017 photo by Dylan Langille[/caption]

Lighting Cos
Brown Note Productions, Morpheus Lights

Venue
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Morrison, CO

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Nook Schoenfeld, Editor, PLSN

Ode to the Color Wheel

There used to be a time when you designed your show around two types of moving lights — hard edge and wash fixtures. I grew up in a time where the hard beams were from Vari-Lites or lekos and the wash came from pars. The only color changing we saw was from color wheels and color scrollers on conventional fixtures.

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The dazzling drop and staircase combo from the Follies section. Images courtesy Beowulf Boritt.

The Tetris of Broadway

Beowulf Boritt is known for his bold, ambitious scenery in shows like Act One (a musical with a three-story revolving turntable) and Thérèse Raquin (a play with a river upstage). But for Prince of Broadway, the musical revue of the work of Broadway legendary Harold Prince, the Tony Award-winning scenic designer got a chance to create numerous old-school set pieces. The challenge was not to make everything fit onstage; it was storing it all in the wings of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, which has not had a musical production mounted there since the Prince-directed Lovemusik, which Boritt also designed sets for, back in 2007.

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Lady Gaga 2017 'Joanne' tour photo by Steve Jennings

Lady Gaga ‘Joanne’ World Tour

Note: This feature was prepared shortly before tour dates in late September and October were postponed or cancelled due to Lady Gaga’s hospitalization for body pain caused by fibromyalgia. The tour is set to resume Nov. 5. —ed.

Lady Gaga’s Joanne World Tour is a two-hour extravaganza to behold. Her performance starts on a main stage. She later walks out into the arena via bridges that lower from the ceiling, bringing her to three intimate stages within the audience… for closer fan interaction. We spoke with key members of the production that bring this all together, starting with LeRoy Bennett, production and lighting designer.

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Pyro extended 200 feet into the air above the roofless stage. Metallica 2017 tour photo by Steve Jennings.

Metallica WorldWired Tour

Metallica’s current “WorldWired Tour” is in support of the band’s Hard Wired… To Self-Destruct album, released last fall. We spoke with the band’s longtime lighting designer and director, Rob Koenig, about working with Dan Braun (show director and set designer) and the tour’s design and logistics he’s encountered for this massive production that’s been filling stadiums around the world. The tour began last year and included a run of stadium dates in North America this past summer. The band is continuing with a series of dates in the U.K. and Europe this fall and next spring.

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