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Frank Turner Tour Rig Includes Clay Paky Clay Paky Mythos Fixtures

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Frank Turner Tour Rig Includes Clay Paky Clay Paky Mythos Fixtures

OTTAWA, Canada – Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing band The Sleeping Souls since 2010, is using the high advanced beam and spot hybrid for large backlight gobo looks and dynamic aerial work. Nitelites is providing the gear.

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LD Natasha Katz lit Anna Louizo's set for the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of 'School of Rock,' now on Broadway. Photo by Matthew Murphy

Lighting Broadway’s ‘School of Rock’

All twenty-something slacker Dewey Finn wants to do is bring the rebellious spirit of rock ‘n’ roll back to the masses, but his stunted ambition and lack of income may force his friend/housemate Ned and his fiancée Patty to kick him out. However, when Dewey intercepts a temporary teaching assignment at the Horace Green prep school meant for his friend, he gets the opportunity not only to rake in some green but to teach some young kids the history of the genre and how to rock out and speak out against authority. They also enter a battle of the bands so that Dewey can live out his failed rock glory with them. But when the other teachers and parents discover his plans, their collective worlds are turned askew.

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Black Sabbath 2016 The End tour photo by Steve Jennings

Black Sabbath’s ‘The End’ Tour

Black Sabbath has widely been referred to as the band that started heavy metal music when the band formed in Birmingham, England back in 1968. There have been several incarnations of the band since then, leading up to their farewell tour this year with three out of the four original members. Guitarist Tommy Iommi has been the one consistent player in the band during their career and has joined forces again with singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler for 2016’s “The End” tour.

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New World Symphony's Pulse Event

New World Symphony’s Pulse Event, Featuring Orchestra and DJ, Lit with elektraLite Fixtures

MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For the Pulse event at New World Symphony (NWS) and its New World Center, which featured musicians, a DJ and dancers, Director of Lighting Luke Kritzeck used the facility’s own stock of elektraLite Dazer fixtures to transform the concert hall into a late-night lounge of sorts. Barbizon of Miami provided additional gear for the event.

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A marching band joined All Access' stage on the field.

Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show: A Kaleidoscope in the Sunshine

Once again, the fastest live show in television has come and gone. With headliners Coldplay along with special guest performers, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, the 12-minute Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show is in the record books as the third most watched Halftime Show; 115.5 million viewers in the U.S. alone. The Super Bowl was broadcast worldwide from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.

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LD Jesper Luth and Moris' Matt Geasey crafted the duo's stage looks, for NYC and an upcoming tour. Photo by Ian Johnson

Hall & Oates at Madison Square Garden

Hall and Oates are getting ready to spend some considerable time on the road this year, playing 95 percent amphitheaters while performing on some three-week long legs of a tour. They recently held a one-day production rehearsal followed by an intimate first show at the Santander Arena in Reading, PA. Then they packed it all up and headed to the Big Apple, where they sold out a Saturday night show at Madison Square Garden. Opening the show with “Out of Touch,” the hits kept coming, and the audience did their part to sing along at the big dance party.

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Helene Fourment in Antwerp, Belgium.

New Musical, ‘Helene Fourment,’ Staged in Belgium with Visual Assist from Painting with Light

ANTWERP, Belgium – Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans energized a creative team to deliver video content for a 3D digital set and lighting design for the  Judas TheaterProducties staging of Helene Fourment. The new musical focuses on Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens’ young muse. It was staged at the Fakkeltheater in Antwerp. Painting with Light’s Michael Al Far created the video content and Jeroen Opsteyn was associate lighting designer and also programmed the lighting with Luc. All worked very closely with set designer Arno Bremers.

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The Polartec Big Air event in Boston's Fenway Park. Photo courtesy U.S. Snowboarding/USSA

Extreme Home Run: A Snow Ramp Rises Above Fenway’s Green Monster

It was hard to accurately envision the incredible sight of a ski ramp rising up out of Fenway Park when, on a beautiful sunny fall day in September, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), along with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Fenway Sports Management (FSM), announced that the beloved ballpark would host a big air snowboarding and freeskiing U.S. Grand Prix tour event. However, in mid-February, it quickly captured the attention of Bostonians when in the bitter cold the massive freestanding Big Air snow ramp soared to three times the height of the walls of Fenway’s Green Monster.

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BMFLs Perform at 2016 Halberg Awards

2016 Halberg Awards in New Zealand Lit with Robe BMFLs, Pointes

AUKLAND, NZ – The 53rd Halberg Awards, which honor New Zealand’s top sporting achievements, involved a collaboration between the event’s lighting, audio and LED screens supplier, Oceania, broadcast partner OSB and broadcaster SKY TV which runs the show and manages content for the three-hour live telecast. Thirty Robe BMFL Spots and 20 Pointes were included in the lighting rig this year, among other fixtures, all of which were rigged in the Vector Arena, Auckland.

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The multi-media show serves as a showcase for new technologies from Pangolin and Kvant.

The ‘Light Up the Night’ Laser Show at Marriott’s Orlando World Center

Lasers… There’s just something about the stunning visual effects they can create. Everything from aerial beam projections and liquid skies to laser text, graphics and even laser logos. Advanced laser projector technology from companies like Pangolin Laser System and Kvant has allowed this light source to mix in well with other multimedia show elements, including intelligent lighting, video, pyro, fountain projections and more.

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On Location at Niagara Falls

LD Kevin Hardy has Seen the Light

Lighting designer Kevin Hardy’s frequent flyer accounts must be too heavy to lift. Now 53, his peripatetic career has taken him to Beijing, London, Sochi, the Vatican, Niagara Falls and most of the U.S. He has applied his art to subjects as diverse as the band Twisted Sister and Barbara Streisand, Keith Olbermann and Howard Stern, the Ohio Ballet and the election of Pope Francis. As PLSN spoke with him in late January, he was gearing up to head to the Trump-less final Republican presidential debate in Iowa, where he would direct lighting for the post-debate “spin room” and other support segments.

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