By the end of “Girl Gone Wild,” the first song in Madonna’s MDNA tour, you know that this will be a concert experience unlike any before. More operatic in design style than pop concert, the creative team has married technology, music, and choreography with the precision and glamour that exemplifies the star herself. The MDNA tour opened in Israel in June and is currently touring North America.
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Joe Gallagher’s name and reputation is so tied to live event staging that it seems like his own company started years ago. But while Gallagher Staging and Productions, Inc. is barely a year old, the Gallagher name is a 30-plus year institution.
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Lighting Co
Performance Lighting/Stewart Independent Production
Venue
B1 Parking Lot
Notre Dame, IN
The 2012 Enrique Iglesias & Jennifer Lopez tour combined two distinct shows into one evening, with each artist performing 13 songs. J-Lo was up first, with looks ranging from vintage Hollywood, complete with male dancers, top hats and canes, to a boxing motif reflecting tough urban roots. Following an intermission, Iglesias stripped away most of the theatrical flourishes and offered up the raw energy of a traditional rock concert.
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Somebody had to do it. Who else but Charlie Hernandez?
A menacing rainstorm in Rio de Janeiro flooded the Formula 1 racing field where the next insane episode of the Guns N’ Roses tour of South America was going down. A delay in getting Guns N’ Roses on stage was nothing new, though this time the weather was not helping. Unwisely, the local promoter let the crowd onto the field during load in. Hernandez and associate Lori Tierney were above in the announcer tower, surveying the mayhem. “Charlie and I were looking out on this seething crowd when [Dale] “Opie” [Skjerseth] comes in and announces that we still needed to run the snake from the stage to FOH. I looked down at that riot, and I said, ‘are you kidding me?’”
Then a wide-eyed grinning Hernandez chirped: “I’ll do it!” Read More »
ANTWERP, Belgium – About 12,000 disco divas stepped out to the 2012 Studio 54 Sportpaleis event in Antwerp, Belgium to strut their best dancefloor moves and grooves to the sounds of the 1970s. The event featured Robe moving lights along with other gear supplied by Total Event Support. LD Peter Vervloesem designed the event; the centerpiece of the arena design was a massive chandelier in the roof made up from 400 x 40 cm mirror balls flown above the stage.
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