SAVANNAH, GA — Behind the scenes at the Ghosts & Gravestones tour in Savannah, Alcorn McBride products are being used for show control, audio playback, lighting control and programming, according to Ryan McCurdy, who handles show control for Historic Tours of America, which operates tours in six cities.
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LONDON — Great Britain’s Royal Ballet recently staged Romeo and Juliet for an audience of 12,000, not at their home venue at Covent Garden, but at London’s vast O2 arena. The spatial experiment was deemed a success and the complex production relied on an ETC Eos lighting control system.
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NOVA GORICA, Slovenia — KSL Studio d.o.o, Robert Juliat’s Slovenian distributor, has supplied 40 Robert Juliat 614SX 1200W tungsten profile spots to the National Theatre Nova Gorica in Slovenia, where they will be the main workhorses for the theatre’s varied program.
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LOS ANGELES – As part of a multi-million dollar renovation of the World Cruise Center at the Port of Los Angeles, Electrosonic has designed a new audio, video and show control system, crafted digital signage, created a kids-friendly videowall and installed a zoned sound and paging system.
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LONDON — Even if the name Sue Sylvester doesn’t yet frighten the life out of you and you’ve never heard of Glee, there’s little doubt you will do soon. As Glee fever sweeps the UK, the hit high school TV drama has inspired British kids to compete in a charity fund-raising spin-off called Comic Relief does Glee Club. The show was aired during Comic Relief Week, when the whole country gets together to entertain each other and raise cash for UK charities.
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ORLANDO — Dataton Watchout version 5 multi-display production and playback system debuted at InfoComm11 in Orlando. Fully scalable, software-based and requiring no proprietary hardware, Watchout already orchestrates still images, animations, graphics, video, sound and live feeds into a single impressive show across multiple display areas, either soft-edge blended or scattered. Version 5’s new features include 3D effects and stage preview, stereoscopic playback, more interaction and multiple outlets.
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KINGS LYNN, Norfolk, UK — The Glade Festival, a celebration of electronic dance music festival that started out as a stage at Glastonbury, was staged in Houghton Hall this year, and a key supporter of the 2011 event was Central Presentations Ltd (CPL), which is based in West Midlands and Bristol, UK. CPL coordinated and supplied a full technical production package encompassing video, lighting and sound for the Overkill stage.
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MIAMI — The 13th Ultra Music Festival drew well over 100,000 techno fans to Miami’s Bicentennial Park in late March to hear more than 300 DJs and numerous bands performing on six stages. Clay Paky lighting fixtures played a key role. Headliners on the main stage for the festival, which expanded for the first time to a three-day format, included The Chemical Brothers, Duran Duran and Tiësto. Other stages included the Live Stage, Carl Cox & Friends, UMF Korea, Root Society and the Heineken Dome.
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SYDNEY — With a production valued at over $25 million, Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite-Les Folies Tour 2011 features over a million moving parts, including 30 high impact water jets, rain curtains, fountains and nearly 600 light sources. The custom stage, which by itself cost over $10 million, is designed to be technically advanced, complex and precise.
Read More »NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA — LD Jeff Ravitz and Intensity Advisors associate Kristie Roldan have been busy recently on a variety of television projects including an opera telecast, a talk show series starring Cee Lo Green, two music videos for Nick Jr. kiddie idols The Fresh Beat Band, a stand-up comedy special and live studio coverage of the E3 convention in Los Angeles for Spike TV.
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