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4Wall DC Relocates to New Facility

4Wall DC's new location

4Wall DC Relocates to New Facility

COLUMBIA, MD- 4Wall Entertainment’s DC location has moved from its Halethorpe, MD, location to Columbia, MD.  The relocation was necessary because of 4Wall’s growth.  Since opening in January of 2010, 4Wall DC has consistently added inventory to accommodate  its growing customer base.

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Jennifer Lopez

LD Sean Burke Specs VARI-LITES for Jennifer Lopez Tour

DALLAS – Jennifer Lopez is embarking on her first headlining world tour. LD/ programmer Sean Burke is using VARI-LITE VL3500 Wash FX and VL3000 Spot luminaires from Upstaging to shine a light on the artist and her stage full of dancers, as well as cut through the bright ambient light created from the LED video screens.

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Saturday's opening night celebration

GoVision Enhances Entertainment at ASAE Meeting

DALLAS – Argyle, TX-based GoVision provided video screens to enhance the entertainment during the 2012 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo in Dallas. An Opening Night Celebration at Cowboys Stadium featured extra screens on each side of the stage for Big & Rich’s show, while another night’s event featured screens enhancing country artist Jack Ingram’s performance.

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Lenny Kravitz

Martin M1 for Lenny Kravitz at TW Classic Fest

WERCHTER, Belgium – Lighting director and lighting op Jesse Blevins directed this summer’s Lenny Kravitz light show at the TW Classic Festival in Belgium from a Martin M1 lighting console with high res custom video content played back on a Martin Maxedia Broadcast. Live video of Kravitz was integrated in the light show and broadcast on a triangle-shaped video screen. Capture of the live video stream was done via the Martin MCC card for the Maxedia Broadcast, which meant that frame delay was minimal and latency was low between the performers on stage and the live video on screen.

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High End Systems, Studio Gear Host Open House

MILWAUKEE – High End Systems, along with regional dealer Studio Gear LLC, will show HES’ newest products with hands-on opportunities Aug. 21, 10:30 a.m.-5:30 pm in Milwaukee. Location is downtown at the Italian Conference Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202.

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Theatre La Roulette

Stageline Creates New Mobile Theatre for Montreal

MONTREAL – To celebrate the 60th birthday of Montreal’s most famous mobile theater, La Roulotte, the city turned to Stageline to design and manufacture a new mobile theater. The 2012 version had to answer specific criteria: It had to be easy and fast to install and dismantle and require minimal physical effort; it had to have enough storage space for the production equipment; and it had to be safe.

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Miss Florida USA

grandMA a Winner on Miss Florida USA Pageant

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – The Miss Florida USA 2013 pageant again featured grandMA lighting consoles behind the scenes. LD Stefan DeWilde needed the expanded grandMA system, which featured an NSP (Network Signal Processor) and eight universes. “It was essential to have everything networked on the show,” he said.

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Chariots of Fire

White Light Supplies ‘Chariots of Fire’

LONDON – Timed for London’s Olympic summer is the new stage adaptation of the classic British film “Chariots of Fire,” telling the story of a much earlier Olympic Games. To supply the lighting for the show, LD Rick Fisher turned to his regular collaborator White Light. The company also supplied external lighting to the Gielgud Theatre for a performance by Vangelis of his Chariots of Fire theme as the Olympic Torch passed the theatre.

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PSL Awards

Robe Lights the 2012 PSL Awards

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – The 2012 PSL (Premier Soccer League) Awards honored South African football players, coaches and officials at the Lyric theatre in Gold Reef City, Johannesburg. LD Nicholas Michaletos specified the Robes from technical solutions provider Sound Stylists, who supplied lighting equipment and crew.

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‘Dreamgirls’ Goes Wireless with CHAUVET

ST. LOUIS – For an outdoor production of “Dreamgirls,” LD Seth Jackson called upon wireless and battery-operated CHAUVET fixtures to light six 16-ft. mobile truss towers that freely move across its 94-ft. stage. “The truss towers are large pieces. Cables or anything even close to that would have just been impossible to deal with,” said Jackson.

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