GrooveBoston Vitality Tour
Lighting Co
East Coast Lighting & Production Services (ECLPS)
Venue
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
GrooveBoston Vitality Tour
Draco and Friends
Lighting Co
Musique Xpress Lights Inc.
Venue
Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot
San Juan, Puerto Rico
A Bridge of Imagination
When you are doing a musical based on the bestselling book and hit film The Bridges of Madison County and cannot actually build a bridge onstage, that conundrum creates a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. But scenic designer Michael Yeargan tackled the problem with ingenuity, knowing that sometimes one can show someplace or something without fully representing it. He needed to figure out “how to depict a covered bridge on the stage when this action happens in it, through it, and behind it,” he says. “There was no way we could really build a covered bridge, so we designed it to indicate it with those arches that fly in.” It was a balancing act of scope and intimacy for a story centered on two people in love in an extramarital affair.
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Sting & Paul Simon: On Stage Together Tour
It was conveyed to us that Sting and Paul did not want two [separate] shows — they wanted one,” states Richard Locklin, LD for Paul Simon. “We needed the show to be seamless, moving nicely from one song to another without stopping the show to move set pieces.”
Mission accomplished.
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Miley Cyrus 2014 Bangerz Tour
Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz tour, in support of her fourth album of the same name, is riding the momentum of the artist’s swing back from acting to music. The tour is not only showcasing Cyrus’ ability to belt out a tune, it’s completing the wrecking-ball-like annihilation of her previous child-idol Hannah Montana persona. (The artist’s twerking spectacle at the MTV VMAs in August, 2013, where Cyrus sang the Bangerz single, “We Can’t Stop,” generated 306,100 tweets per minute.) The album, featuring pop songs with country and Hip Hop influences, was released Oct. 4, and after the completion of a 39-date North American tour (Feb. 14-April 25), the tour has a 22-date run through Europe (May 2-June 15).
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Into the Night with Imagine Dragons
It started with a scanned drawing of trees with eyes. “We want trees onstage,” said the band members of Las Vegas-based Imagine Dragons. Production designer/LD Richard “Nook” Schoenfeld of Visual Ventures Design was one of three designers approached to turn the scan into an imaginative set for the last portion of their Night Visions tour, dubbed Into the Night.
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Matrix Visual Solutions
Life is eventful for Paul Motal. In fact, he and Matrix Visual Solutions, the company he founded, are involved in nearly 800 events per year, either as the producer or as the full-service provider of audio-visual gear and expertise through rentals and sales. Ranging from massive to modest, they include conventions, trade shows, gala parties, product launches, stadium concerts, film premieres, fundraisers, music festivals, television and movie production, sports and educational, religious and corporate events. Where else would you find a client list so diverse it contains such luminaries as Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Pitbull, Ford Motor Company, Samsung, Guess? Inc., the Latin Grammys, Safeway and the Barack Obama presidential campaign?
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An Ultra HD Update, One Year Later
By now, you’ve probably heard the hype about Ultra HD (also known as 4K), since the major manufacturers of 4K televisions are promoting it to the max. This new video format has four times the resolution of high definition video (1920×1080). Much has happened since the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which was 4K’s global coming-out party. In the biz, hopes remain very high for this new breed of video (clearly, since the coming out party for 3D in 2012 proved to be a flash in the pan).
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