MONTREAL – To celebrate the 60th birthday of Montreal’s most famous mobile theater, La Roulotte, the city turned to Stageline to design and manufacture a new mobile theater. The 2012 version had to answer specific criteria: It had to be easy and fast to install and dismantle and require minimal physical effort; it had to have enough storage space for the production equipment; and it had to be safe.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – The Miss Florida USA 2013 pageant again featured grandMA lighting consoles behind the scenes. LD Stefan DeWilde needed the expanded grandMA system, which featured an NSP (Network Signal Processor) and eight universes. “It was essential to have everything networked on the show,” he said.
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LONDON – Timed for London’s Olympic summer is the new stage adaptation of the classic British film “Chariots of Fire,” telling the story of a much earlier Olympic Games. To supply the lighting for the show, LD Rick Fisher turned to his regular collaborator White Light. The company also supplied external lighting to the Gielgud Theatre for a performance by Vangelis of his Chariots of Fire theme as the Olympic Torch passed the theatre.
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ST. LOUIS – For an outdoor production of “Dreamgirls,” LD Seth Jackson called upon wireless and battery-operated CHAUVET fixtures to light six 16-ft. mobile truss towers that freely move across its 94-ft. stage. “The truss towers are large pieces. Cables or anything even close to that would have just been impossible to deal with,” said Jackson.
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ASHLAND, VA – Czech Republic-based trussing and staging manufacturer Milos Group has acquired two leading trussing and staging brands, Litec and TOMCAT. The new deal makes Milos one of the largest global aluminum trussing and staging groups, with the addition of major manufacturing bases in Italy, Slovakia, Mexico and the US.
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SUNRISE, FL – CHAUVET promotes John Dunn to Business Development Manager of the West Coast. In his new role, Dunn will focus on two CHAUVET sub-brands, CHAUVET Professional and ILUMINARC. He joined the company in 2010 as West Region Business Manager.
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Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK – Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) supplied lighting for five main ‘operated’ stages and about 30 other performance areas dotted around the site at the 2012 Secret Garden Party. The boutique festival, now in its 10th year, battled with wet weather on the set-up. The resulting large volumes of mud restricted access around the site, making it more of a challenge to ensure that all was rigged-and-ready for the sold-out festival to open on time.
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ESSEN, Germany – German lighting designer Nik Evers has been using GLP’s impression Wash One and impression 90 for “The Dome,” a popular music TV show in Germany. Evers uses the GLP fixtures not only to highlight the architectural elements of the show’s theatre interior – as a former industrial facility – but also for the stage lighting, preferring to light the artists like a concert rather than as a TV show.
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REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES – The holiday resort destination of the Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean, has provided the exotic location for PR Lighting’s latest foray. Local event management company BeamOn is using the XS1200 Spot on the celebrity TV show, Tharinge Rey 2012, broadcast by Maldives TV station DhiTV.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – South African technical production company Blond Productions supplied Robe ROBIN MMX Spots and 600E Beam moving lights to a new games show, “Musiek Trivia,” recorded at ZSE Studios in Johannesburg. The music trivia-focused game show needed lighting to create a mood with drama and some ‘wow’ moments rather than provide flat, clinical lighting for TV.
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