NEW YORK – Head electrician Eric Abbott has reported that the 20 VLX Wash fixtures provided by Hudson Sound and Light for the rig of American Idiot has saved "at least five to six hours per week" in crew work costs for the Broadway show, which first loaded-in to the St. James Theatre in February 2010.
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NEW YORK – The Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark presented a nationwide peek at the much-discussed show recently on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman. Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video helped project a visual backdrop from the musical.
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JOHANNESBURG – Robe's South African distributor, DWR, reported a sizable turnout for its Robe ROBIN Roadshow, a series of three events held in Johannesburg (at the University of Johannesburg Theatre), Cape Town (the Baxter Theatre) and Durban (The Natal Playhouse Company).
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NEW YORK – For Prince's recent Welcome 2 America shows in the New York area, LD Demfis Fyssicopulos used a grandMA console to control the shows' lighting and video components. Prince played two shows at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., then moved to Madison Square Garden for three performances before and after Christmas.
Read More »PENANG, Malaysia and REGENSBURG, Germany – Osram Opto Semiconductors announced plans to increase production at its LED chip manufacturing facilities here, expanding production of 6-inch wafers instead of the current 4-inch wafers, which is expected to nearly double the company's chip production capacity for white LEDs by the end of 2012.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – For Madeleine, Black Sequin Productions' exploration of schizophrenia and its effect on a young woman and her family, LD Ben Cobham of Bluebottle led the design team that used 33 lighting fixtures, including an ETC Source Four Revolution.
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WARSAW, IN – Da-Lite Screen Company added Alan Keller to its sales consultant team. Keller, based in the Chicago area, will be responsible for Da-Lite clients in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Northern Indiana. Keller has 15 years of AV industry sales experience. He has a business degree from North Park University.
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LAS VEGAS, NV – 4Wall named Bob Athey head of its recently-formed audio and video department. Part of 4Wall's national Systems & Design division, the new audio and video department will help 4Wall offer clients turnkey lighting, audio, video, and control systems.
Read More »SYDNEY – All Access Staging & Productions, Inc., which expanded to Brisbane, Australia last year, recently added a Sydney location. Jeff Lamour, one of the directors of All Access in Australia, will be operating the new facility, while Ross Butler will remain at the Brisbane location.
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Read More »Coolux GmbH, creators of Pandoras Box product family, today announced the official release of their Widget Designer Version 3.0. The freeware Widget Designer STD allows the creation of custom user-interfaces. The Widget Designer PRO is designed as an advanced control surface creation framework and includes a large feature set for visual node based programming.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – LD Peter Gasper updated the lighting system used for Rio's famous Christ the Redeemer monument using LED technology, including 300 Traxon Shield AC XB LED projectors and an e:cue system for control. Osram, parent company to both Traxon and e:cue, agreed to provide the lighting system for a two-year period.
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