‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Features Immersive Social Media Environment with Assist from WorldStage

NEW YORK — WorldStage provided an extensive media-server driven video package for the Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which relies on the technology to tell the story of a high school senior coping with social anxiety disorder.  Before it opened on Broadway’s Music Box Theatre in Dec. 2016, the show was performed Off-Broadway. The musical premiered in July 2015 in Washington, DC. WorldStage supported those productions as well.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For Heltemus Productions’ recent touring musical version of Ronja Røverdatter (Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter) in Denmark, LD Sune Verdier of b-ql.dk specified 14 of Robe’s DL7S Profiles, 24 LEDWash 600+ and 12 CycFX 8 fixtures.

NEW YORK – The Electrical Power Working Group of ESTA’s Technical Standards Program has written BSR E1.58 – 201X, Electrical Safety Standard for Portable Stage and Studio Equipment Used Outdoors, a new draft standard, in an effort to offer that guidance. It is being offered for public comment through June 19 2017.

NASHVILLE – With another packed festival season on the horizon, Bandit Lites has recently expanded its production inventory with a purchase of Iluminarc Ilumipanel 180 IP fixtures. The rugged exterior light is ideal for providing colorful washes on the massive scrims at outdoor stages in addition to giving vibrant looks during performances that take place during the day in bright sunlight to crowds that stretch out to the thousands.