10: Luke Bryan ‘Kick Up the Dust’ Tour
A Christmas Wish List, Fulfilled
It’s the start of a new year, and I wish you all a great upcoming one. I will always be a lighting designer foremost, even if I don’t practice the craft as often as I did before becoming an editor. So my Christmas wish list is always for new lighting toys. I’m glad to see the birth of some new lighting products in the last year as well as the retooling of some old fixtures that have come back from the dead. I took a few minutes to list some of the new tools in my toy box that I personally would love to get my hands on.
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Casinò Municipale di San Pellegrino Terme Makes Use of Vintage Clay Paky Gear
SAN PELLEGRINO TERME, Italy – The Casinò Municipale di San Pellegrino Terme turned to Clay Paky fixtures – including some vintage gear – for a lighting solution. LD Giuseppe Cividini incorporated more than 100 Clay Paky GlowUp LED uplighters along with older but still functional Clay Paky V.I.P. 300s and with a Clay Paky glass optical unit from 1995.
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Mac Mosier & Son with Josh Groban’s ‘Stages’ Tour
TOUR: Aug. 2015-Aug. 2016 world tour
TWO MOSIERS BACKSTAGE: “My oldest son, Calvin, is a lighting tech. It was great having him on the crew. The first time he called me Mac instead of Dad, coming across the stage, it threw me. But I got used to it. He goes out with the Stones in January.”
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‘Soul Legends’ TV Series at the Apollo Theater in Harlem Lit with GLP X4s
NEW YORK – More than 50 GLP impression X4 LED moving heads made a recent TV appearance on Legends: OWN at the Apollo, a four-part prime-time special featuring icons such as Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, The Isley Brothers and Earth, Wind & Fire.
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‘The Illusionists’ on Broadway
The magic spectacle of The Illusionists — Live On Broadway recently offered that rare break from plays and musicals for something more offbeat and interactive. Featuring seven magicians with different skills — from the comedy hijinks of The Trickster to the death-defying stunts of The Daredevil to the fast-paced moves of The Deceptionist — the two-hour plus show is packed with all manner of dazzling illusions and is one of those rare shows that flies by. It begins its national tour in February.
LeRoy Bennett’s Design for The Weeknd’s Fall Madness Tour
The Weeknd recently wrapped up the sold-out The Madness Fall Tour, which was in support of the artist’s second studio album, Beauty Behind the Madness. Known by the stage name The Weeknd, Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer Abel Tesfaye wanted to build on the success of the album with the tour through extremely effective use of production elements to support his music. Production and lighting designer LeRoy Bennett, one of the principals in Seven Design Works, was asked to realize that goal.
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Alex Skowron’s Classic Rock Looks for John Fogerty
Production designer Alex Skowron recently wrapped up the latest leg on his tour with the classic rock star John Fogerty. The singer amassed a wealth of hits while leading Creedence Clearwater Revival in the late 1960s and 70’s before embarking on a solo career that has spanned the last 30 years.
The Martha Graham Dance Company Performs in Shanghai, Lit with Gio-Controlled Source Four LED Fixtures
SHANGHAI, China – The Shanghai Grand Theatre (SGT) featured performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company. LD Nick Hung lit Graham’s classics with Source Four LED luminaires controlled by a Gio lighting-control system. ETC’s Chinese dealer, Hangzhou YiDaShi Lighting Equipment Co., Ltd., also played a significant role in the event by providing technical support for the show.
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X Ambassadors: Rolling Renegades
Everyone in the music industry feels the crunch of the digital revolution. Used to be a band would tour the world in the hopes of attracting interest in their new album or latest creation. These days, however, it seems up-and-coming artists who circle the globe place less emphasis on earning royalties from record sales than in racking up revenue from concert tickets.
Area Four Industries: Tomcat, James Thomas Engineering, Milos and Litec Team Up for Efficiency
Competition between vendors in any business is commonplace. But the entertainment business has long been known as a cutthroat place where saving dimes can amount to earning thousands of dollars in the long run. So many companies make similar products that a buyer can easily shop around for the best deal. Companies spend serious cash on R&D for a new product, only to find other companies copying their ideas a year later. The business of metalworking — especially truss manufacturing — is no different.
Luminous FX Owner Laura Frank
Laura Frank is the proprietor of Luminous FX, a company that specializes in dealing with getting the properly formatted media to the proper projectors or LED walls at an event. In these days of having a dozen or more surfaces on one stage covered with pixels, she has created a niche’ for herself. While she is not the only person in the entertainment business tasked with her job, it’s the unique way her company operates that sets her apart from the rest of the world.