PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago – A recent Beyonce performance required the crew to turn Queen's Park Savanna into a concert venue for some 40,000 attendees. Beyonce's lighting team, led by Pat Brannon, LD, relied upon over 60 truss-mounted moving heads from PR Lighting for the show.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Given the economic hardships endured by businesses around the globe, organizers of Musikmesse and ProLight + Sound were bracing for a tough 2010 show. But the event attacted 2,340 exhibitors, 62 percent of them from outside Germany, and almost 110,000 visitors from 128 countries, which was only a modest decline from 2009's 2,388 exhibitors and 112,478 visitor counts.
Held from March 24-27, ProLight + Sound served as a focal point for product innovation in the live event industry. Here's a glimpse of some of the innovations on display.
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QUEENSBURY, NY – BMI Supply announced that it was consolidating resources from its smaller sister company, BMI Supply South, and focusing its efforts on its main operation here.
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LOS ANGELES – Mark Ferber, 60, a longtime production supervisor at the Hollywood Bowl, died March 14. A memorial service for Ferber will be held on-stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 11 a.m. It is open to the public.
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NEW YORK—After a world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the new musical American Idiot has just started preview performances on Broadway. Its energetic, generational, media-saturated set is fed by 15 Hippotizer HD V3 media servers supplied to the production by SenovvA, Inc. supported by Green Hippo Special Projects division.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – LSC Lighting Systems, the Australian based manufacturer of lighting control systems, named LMP Lichttechnik as their new exclusive distribution partner for Germany and Austria. LMP is based in Ibbenbüren, in the north of Germany.
Read More »STONINGTON, CT – Robert "Bob-O" O'Bleness, 48, a Muskogee, Okla.-based truck driver carrying stage equipment for Carrie Underwood's Play On tour for a performance at Foxwoods Casino's MGM Grand Theater, was killed in a highway accident early March 20.
Read More »NORTH CREEK, NY – Creative Stage Lighting has been named the sole distributor partner of Wireless Solution products in the United States. Wireless Solution is the creator of W-DMX technology, introduced in 2004.
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HONG KONG – Robert Juliat dealer Pacific Lighting Ltd provided 24 RJ 611SX profiles for the City Hall Concert Hall, the largest interior venue within the Hong Kong City Hall complex, which also houses a theatre, an exhibition hall, gallery and numerous restaurants. The fixtures have been installed on the Front-of-House bridges.
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CHICAGO – Billy Elliot the Musical, staged in London, Sydney and New York, is now going worldwide. Its U.S. tour kicked off in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, on March 18. By the end of 2010, a production will move to a different U.S. city every three or four weeks.
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LONDON – Now under the management of Blackfriars' newly-created Blackfriars Promotions, the 2,500-plus capacity Victorian Coronet Theatre offers an array of in-house events supported by a lighting system upgrade including GLP's new Impression 120 RZ zoom fixtures.
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