NEW YORK – In Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, which opens on Broadway for previews Feb. 28, 2011, the musical's visual focal point is the show's namesake: a roving set piece done up as a tour bus, emblazoned with Traxon Technologie's String RGB fixtures – nearly 30,000 LEDs in all.
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NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has named Paul "PJ" Turpin at its Western business development manager. Turpin will be responsible for servicing CSL dealer accounts in the Western U.S.
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NEW YORK – For their Feb. 5 appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live, Linkin Park performed "Waiting For The End," off their latest album, A Thousand Suns. The design concept was to link their live performance into the song's video theme using two full-color OPS laser systems from Laser Design Productions.
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LAS VEGAS – Wybron's Mobile Light Lab , the successor to the company's 2010 Mobile Showroom, visited Colorado and Utah earlier this year before traveling to Nevada, where Wybron's Dusty Hudgins led PLSN sister publication Stage Directions on a video tour of the traveling facility. The Visuality 2011 tour will visit Arizona before traveling north up the West Coast.
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DAKAR, Senegal – Working with its French distributor, Avab, ETC supplied a range of fixtures, dimming and control equipment to the third Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures), illuminating the event's venues, the Théâtre National Daniel Sorano, Centre Culturel Blaise Senghor and La Biscuiterie de Médina.
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ASTANA and ALMATY, Kazakhstan – More than 1,500 athletes representing 27 Asian nations and 45 National Olympic Committees recently competed at the Asian Winter Games. ARG (Moscow) called in The Prolyte Group to support their vision for the Opening Ceremony.
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GENK, Belgium – C-Mine, a new $470 million cultural development on the site of an abandoned coal mine, offers visitors two flexible theatres, both of them with installed lighting rigs provided by ADB Lighting. ADB supplied a total of 275 luminaires and 564 ways of Eurorack dimming to the project, with the Eurorack 60 dimmer chosen for its quiet operation.
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Pathway Connectivity's Pathport Manager 5.1 offers RDM control and an IP-address auto-corrector. The software also recognizes the Strand Palette consoles, ShowCAD controllers and the Jands Vista, and will discover and configure the new Pathport VIA 10+1 gigabit switch, introduced at LDI 2010. It also unlocks full protocol support in Strand and Entertainment Technology raceway dimmers, including Art-Net and sACN.
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Elation Professional's Platinum Spot 5R Pro is an upgraded version of the Platinum Spot 5R DMX moving head. Both fixtures use Philips MSD Platinum 5R lamp technology to produce brightness comparable to a 575-watt fixture with only half the energy draw and a lengthy 2,000-hour lamp life. But the equally-compact-and-bright Platinum Spot 5R DMX adds an expanded array of professional features and effects, making it well-suited for theaters, stage shows, concerts, productions, churches, nightclubs and other entertainment venues.
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MIAMI – Freedom Tower, a landmark 1925-vintage building in downtown Miami with historic significance as a site of Cuban immigration to the U.S., was recently transformed with an architectural lighting installation that included Martin Professional Exterior 400 luminaires.
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HELSINKI, Finland – The 3rd Season Of Light event relied upon W-DMX for one of the major installations. The event, organized by the City of Helsinki, showcased lighting designers Martin Kuhn of Germany, Per Sundin of Sweden and Tulay Schakir and Mikki Kunttu of Finland. Each created lighting installations for some of the main buildings around the city, which included the Esplandi Park Senate Square, Union Street, Kaisaniemi Park, Sanoma House, and Parliament House.
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LONDON – StageHand has been chosen as the new name for the Production Services Association (PSA) Welfare & Benevolent Fund after a PSA Conference call for ideas by the Fund's chairman, Mike Lowe of Britannia Row Productions. The group also agreed on a new logo depicting a helping hand.
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