Big Blue Madness
40th ‘National Day’ in Laos Lit with 300 DTS Moving Heads
VIENTANE, Laos – The country of Laos celebrated their 40th National Day with a massive celebration on Dec. 2 at the Laos National Stadium in Vientane, Laos. The lighting system, installed by the rental company ProPacific (Thailand) Co., included 200 Raptor moving heads, 40 XR1200 Wash, and 60 x XR3000 Spot fixtures from DTS.
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Passaic County Technical Institute Goes LED with Philips Strand Retrofit
WAYNE, NJ – The Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI), an award-winning high school with a 200 course curriculum which includes their School of Performing Arts, upgraded its theatre facility recently with a Philips Strand Lighting retrofit installation that included PLFRESNEL1 and PLPROFILE4 LED luminaires along with a NEO lighting control console, Vision.net Touchscreens, an A21 Dimming System, and CD80SV Retrofit Dimmer Modules.
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Moscow’s Circle of Light Festival Includes Clay Paky Mythos, A.Leda Fixtures
MOSCOW – Clay Paky’s lights, including 150 of the company’s Mythos fixtures and more than 100 A.Leda fixtures, were used during the Circle of Light Festival, held in Moscow this year from Sept. 27-Oct. 4.
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d3 Technologies Names Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist
LOS ANGELES – d3 Technologies named Matthew Cotter Technical Sales Specialist based on the U.S. West Coast. Cotter has been a lighting director and media programmer for the past 15 years, primarily working in television and on theme park spectaculars. He shared an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Series” with his colleagues for “Dancing with the Stars” in 2014.
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String Cheese Incident Tours with Robe BMFLs
DENVER – Lighting designer and programmer Andrew Cass has been a fan of the famously multi genre blues-rock-jam band String Cheese Incident (SCI) from Colorado since his schooldays. In April 2014 he was lucky enough to land himself in the hot-seat of designing their lighting – a long term dream job he absolutely loves.
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PLSN.com Turns the Page
We are wrapping up the year here at PLSN. Our gift to our readers during this festive season is an updated website that we are sure you will enjoy.
I have unwittingly found myself among the people who when bored, search for interesting online news, on my phone. And to be honest, I was a bit peeved at how the majority of these sites I was visiting were slowed down because I had to constantly navigate through banners, ads and leads to other stories. We at PLSN were just as guilty as the rest of the people in the world, because we didn’t keep up with technology.
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Spring Awakening: Lighting for the Deaf
The Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening has been revived on Broadway after six and a half years, but unlike many resurgent productions on the Great White Way, this one has had a whole extra dimension added to it. What started as a story about teenagers and adults (parents, teachers, and clergy) clashing over the way they communicate (specifically dealing with sexual repression) has now become a tale of deaf students and speaking adults at odds with each other over the same issues.
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Children’s Theatre Company’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’
A Look Into an Amazing Institution in Minneapolis
I just witnessed L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz last night, my fourth play at this state-of-the-art theater in Minneapolis. Once again, I cannot believe the production values I just witnessed for a children’s show. But one should expect no less from Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) as they celebrate their 50th year in existence. In 2003, they were awarded a Tony Award for an “Outstanding Regional Theater,” and they strive for excellence with every performance.
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Zac Brown Band’s Jekyll + Hyde Tour
The Zac Brown Band winds down their seven-month tour Dec. 12 with their last show of the year in Columbus, OH. It’s been a fun ride for all involved on the visual side. The Georgia-based country act played various sized venues from stadiums to amphitheaters. The three-tiered set featured a video wall behind the band measuring 6 by 52 feet (HxW). Perched atop that were the drums, percussion and ample space for various band members to walk up stairs and ramps and play. It’s clear from the start that the 12 band members like to move around. Accurate Staging provided the set.
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