LONDON – Unity – A Concert for Stephen Lawrence, staged at the O2 Arena to mark the 20th anniversary of the teen’s death in what has been deemed to be a racially motivated hate crime, featured performances by Rita Ora, Jessie J, Emeli Sande, Beverley Knight, Tinie Tempah and Plan B, among others. Hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Reggie Yates, the event was produced by AEG Live and featured video support from XL Video.
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The new musical, First Date, offers a peppy pop spin on the awkward blind date that many of us have endured. Aaron (Zachary Levi) is a finance man with foot-in-mouth tendencies, and Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) is an artsy, edgy girl with a toxic sense of humor. As they trade quips, barbs and awkward pauses, they learn to understand each other and open up about their mixed pasts. Mirroring the show’s approach, media/scenic designer David Gallo sought to subvert traditional Broadway notions while working around them.
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Right up there with “jumbo shrimp” and “army intelligence,” the phrase “arena intimacy” appears to be an oxymoron of head-scratching proportion. Yet this skeptic was won over one Saturday night in September when Michael Bublé’s To Be Loved tour stopped to play St. Louis’ Scottrade Center.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA — Harman, which recently named Brian Friborg to lead U.S. sales, also announced that its integration of Martin Lighting in the U.S. has been completed. The company is closing the Martin office in Sunrise, FL but will maintain a sales and product support presence in the Fort Lauderdale area, led by Friborg. All staff from the closed Sunrise, FL facility have been offered positions within the Harman Professional organization.
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Although his backing band, The Hooligans, have also achieved a measure of popular and critical acclaim, Bruno Mars, who will be performing at the 2014 Super Bowl Halftime Show, could also probably do pretty well just by cloning himself. Along with a three-octave voice versatile enough to handle a variety of musical genres (not to mention vocal impressions to cover for glitches on Pandora.com), Mars plays electric and acoustic guitar along with the drums.
Read More »NAPLES, Italy – Made in Sud, a comedy series broadcast live on RAI TV, features a lighting design by LD Sandro Cartenuto that includes Robe gear in the rig. Carotenuto, a 30 year veteran of the TV network, included LEDWash 1200 and LEDBeam 100 fixtures for dynamic effects. Rome based rental company DB Technology provided the gear.
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BRANSON, MO – A.C. Lighting added Darrell Barnes to its North American sales team. Barnes, a theatrical lighting veteran who has worked as an LD, programmer and technical director for shows produced in Branson, MO for more than 10 years, will serve as the company’s southwest regional sales manager, supporting sales for Chroma-Q, Jands, ArKaos, LedGo and Prolyte branded products.
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Mantracourt Electronic of the UK has launched a new 5/8″ (3.25T) load-monitoring shackle. The new shackle offers wireless communication between the load-monitoring shackle and the BroadWeigh monitoring system. The new 5/8″ shackle joins their existing 3/4″ Crosby shackle.
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Decades ago, Steven Wilson used to create private home recordings and let them out to the public, passing them off as long-lost relics of Britain’s psychedelic era. Fomenting a campaign of subterfuge and misdirection, Wilson adopted the seemingly meaningless moniker Porcupine Tree (PT) for his studio inventions and even credited fictional characters with having performed on “the band’s” early releases.
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Natural beauty, deftly lit, and singular acoustics are why the Volcano Room is among the most memorable of music venues. From the moment audiences and artists arrive, they realize this is something special. It may be the only venue that needs tour guides to get the 600-person audience to their seats. The Volcano Room is actually 333 feet below ground in the Cumberland Caverns of McMinnville, TN, and it is the home to the popular Bluegrass Underground radio and television series.
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“I believe we are long overdue in honoring Eric Pearce,” says production manager and Parnelli Board Advisor Kent Black. “A lot of people can directly or indirectly trace themselves back to Eric and Showlites — in fact, a lot of people who have fallen off the ‘Showlites Apple Tree’ went on to have successful careers.”
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MIAMI — Ryan Himmel, cinematographer for the Miami Dolphins, turned to Chauvet Professional for a lighting assist for the team’s NFL intro video shoot featuring the football team’s cheerleading squad. The company provided a variety of gear for the shoot, including Legend 230SR Beam and Q-Wash 436Z-LED moving heads, Nexus 4×4 pixel-mapping wash fixtures, COLORado Batten 144 Tour linear washes and Ovation F-165WW LED Fresnels.
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