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The Mystery of Edwin Drood production photo by Joan Marcus

Demystifying “Drood”

Charles Dickens never completed the story of Edwin Drood because he died during its creation. Thus composer/lyricist Rupert Holmes fashioned a tongue-in-cheek, self-referential musical (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) about the story that takes place in London’s Music Hall Royale in 1895. It’s a show within a show — there is a chairman leading us through everything, and the actors even come out in costume prior to the show to warm theatergoers up before setting about performing a bawdy murder mystery.

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The three-stage setup within St. Louis’ Edward Jones Dome eased transitions.

Urbana 12: Five Days, Three Stages

Dodd Technologies Supports InterVarsity’s Big Year-End Conference
It’s a concert. It’s a church. It’s a theater. It’s an intimate space that takes up half a football dome. It’s Urbana, a collegiate Christian mission conference staged in St. Louis’ Edward Jones Dome the last week of December. Close to 16,000 college-age men and women participated — some dressed for church, most in hoodies and jeans — attending up to seven hours each day over a five-day span for a mix of entertainment, information and spiritual inspiration.

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Howard Ungerleider, LD for Rush. Photo by Steve Jennings

Rush’s Clockwork Angels Tour

LD Howard Ungerleider Choreographs the Lighting
For Rush’s latest album, Clockwork Angels, science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson expanded drummer Neil Peart’s lyrics into a novel that depicts a colorful world of Steampunk, lost cities and a protagonist caught between the forces of chaos and order. For the live concert experience, Howard Ungerleider’s lighting design, or “choreography,” dances with video elements during the three-hour show.

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Strategic lighting from Robe and Anolis rejuvenates an aging nightclub

Penthouse Club San Francisco

These days, it seems that nightclub concepts in general have a shelf life of no more than a few years — and the same holds true for gentlemen’s clubs. While the dancers may be the main attraction, club owners are willing to invest millions to update a major club’s atmosphere, décor and branding.

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WWE’s Wrestlemania XXVIII at Sun Life Stadium in Miami

Stage Tops USA: Making Soft Goods Part of the Show

“I’ve had the honor of working with some of the best live entertainment professionals in the industry,” declares Stage Tops USA owner Kevin Greenwood. “I’ve worked with trussing companies, staging companies, production managers, designers, local hands, and riggers. Some of the stage installations were done at crazy high heights — I’ve been with clients on top of roofs that have been locked off at 45 feet and up.”

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Clay Paky A.Leda Wash K10

Clay Paky A.Leda Wash K10

Last month, I found myself in a gig where I needed a couple dozen small footprint, yet powerful, wash lights to tuck into corners of a giant stage. I researched all the various LED heads on the market. Each one had some fancy function that separated them from the next. It was hard to choose. Then my friend Dennis Flenniken asked if I had seen Clay Paky’s first foray into the moving LED head department. He told me that the reason CP had not built an LED head yet was that they were waiting to come up with one that was superior to all other fixtures. He was not wrong.

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