WSJ Profiles Rock Lititz Studio, A Multi-Million Dollar Campus For Tour Industry

Lititz, PA – The Wall Street Journal profiled the new multi-million dollar campus, Rock Lititz Studio in central Pennsylvania. The site of the new tour rehearsal space is built on a former cornfield. The main space, a 100 foot tall, 52,000 square foot building was designed and realized by two Lititz resident companies, Clair Brothers and Tait Towers. The idea behind the new rehearsal space, a central location that tours can build and rehearse large tours.

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SERIATE, Italy – Clay Paky, the Italian manufacturer is getting ready for a new phase in its history. Pasquale Quadri, founder and current President, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of the company by Osram, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world. After the acquisition, Clay Paky will continue to operate from its production and administrative head office in Bergamo. The acquisition is subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities.

LAS VEGAS — The Event Production Directory (EPD), long the Bible of working event planners and production professionals, is now a downloadable free app for iPhones currently available at the iPhone App Store online or on your iPhone.

NEW ORLEANS – One hundred and forty Robe Pointes were at the core of the production lighting design for the 2014 Essence Festival in New Orleans. Around 40 – 50 of the Pointes were rigged on trusses over the audience and up above on top of a social media feed ticker-tape style screen high up in the roof of the stadium. The balance were dotted all over the stage on the LX bars which included the side wings, with some on the floor.

For Katy Perry’s current Prismatic world tour, LD Baz Halpin selected the Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash 330 to create a series of poptastic surprise special effects. Halpin designed a series of 36 bespoke hydraulic flippers onto which are attached 36 individual Sharpy fixtures. The flippers are built into the sides of show’s giant onstage triangular LED screens to provide a range of fast paced special effects. “As the LED screens move up and down the stage the Sharpys ‘flip’ up or down allowing the screens to pass by each other,” explains Halpin. “At one point in the show the dancers interact with the fixtures by using mirrors attached to their hands. They bounce the beams across the stage achieving a really retro-mirror effect that’s in keeping with the kitsch feel of the show.”