PRG Distribution at Tannoy’s InfoComm Demo Room
ORLANDO — PRG Distribution North America will be teaming up with Tannoy complementing that company's audio gear in its demo room, #W205A, with lighting gear demos as well.
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CT Gives Lionel Richie’s European Tour LED Wings
LONDON —Lionel Richie recently completed his European tour in support of Just Go, which included shows in major arenas and smaller theatres. Lars Brogaard, who had worked previously with Richie back in the early 1980s, took on overall production management duties for the tour.
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A.C.T Lighting to Distribute Global Design Solutions LiteWare
LOS ANGELES — A.C.T Lighting is now the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor for the LiteWare stand-alone, battery-powered, DMX-controllable RGB light manufactured by Bristol, U.K.-based Global Design Solutions.
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ETC Eos Debuts in Japan
TOKYO — The first ETC Eos lighting control system to be sold in Japan just hit the road with singer-songwriter and pianist Angela Aki. It is the first time that an ETC console has been selected as the main console to control moving lights and LED fixtures in Japan.
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Showbeam 2.5 Joins Three North American Tours
AUSTIN, TX —Barco announced that High End Systems’ Showbeam 2.5 is being used on three major tours — No Doubt, The Crystal Method and the upcoming Aerosmith tour.
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Scharff Weisberg Stays Busy on Broadway
NEW YORK—Scharff Weisberg, Inc. had a busy season on and off Broadway supplying three productions—33 Variations, Impressionism and Distracted—with comprehensive video system packages designed to be user-friendly and adaptable to the needs of very different shows.
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LSE Creates a Spectacle at Turkish Hotel
ANTALYA, Turkey — The Mardan Palace hotel opened recently with visuals designed through a collaboration of Belgium-based LSE and Tara W Smith, creative director of Stargrace Ltd.
Read More »Stage Research To Distribute ETS SDS887, InstaSnake
NORTHFIELD, OH — Stage Research has become a distributor of two new products, SDS887 and InstaSnake, both from Fremont, Calif.-based Energy Transformation Systems, Inc. (ETS). SDS887 is a UTP Video Distribution Hub with four baseband video signals transmitting through the distribution amplifier creating 32 outputs. The InstaSnake (PA200 Series) is a pro-audio Sub Snake.
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Miss Universe Slovakia 2009 Lit by Robe Gear
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — LD Martin Kubanka used a rig with over 100 Robe lighting fixtures to light the 2009 Slovakian Miss Universe Pageant. The show was staged and televised live by STV1 at the Sibamac Arena before a live audience of 4,500.
Read More »Tribeca Film Event Uses Hippotizer for Logos on “Marquee”
NEW YORK — During the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, Vanity Fair used a 4-foot-by-41-foot Barco LED wall programmed to resemble a large marquee as a key visual element for an event held at the State Supreme Court building in downtown Manhattan.
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Priscilla, Queen of The Desert Musical Uses grandMA Console
LONDON — A new musical, based on an Oscar-winning Australian movie, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert is using a grandMA full-size console to control the moving lighting rig.
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Total Structures and Epic Equip Club Nokia/LA Live
LOS ANGELES — Total Structures recently provided Epic Production Technologies with over 500 feet of its Element 12 and Element 20 truss for the 2,300 capacity, 59,000-square-foot nightclub venue, Club Nokia LA Live.
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