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Luke Stratton Creates Mood for The Smashing Pumpkins with CHAUVET Professional

Luke Stratton Creates Mood for The Smashing Pumpkins with CHAUVET Professional

Luke Stratton didn’t have to read between the lines when he saw the creative brief for Smashing Pumpkins’ The World Is A Vampire festival, which took place in early March. He knew that the stage was going to be massive. “When I got the stage dimensions from the promoter and the lighting inventory list, I knew we were going big,” said Stratton. “Our trim wound up being about 60-feet to the steel and the stage itself was about 90′ by 70′, so yes, it was quite large.”Read More »Luke Stratton Creates Mood for The Smashing Pumpkins with CHAUVET Professional

Sneak Preview of 21st Parnelli Awards Program

Terry Lowe, president of Timeless Communications, founder of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE Magazines and co-founder of the Parnelli Awards, has announced that the program to the upcoming Parnelli Awards can be seen online. No, the winners of more than two dozen categories will not be divulged, but you can check out all the nominees for this year’s awards, including Lighting Designer of the Year, Lighting Company of the Year, Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year, the Indispensable Technology categories and more. The program also features more information on the history of the two-decade-plus awards program along with profiles of this year’s honorees for career achievement – Roy Lamb (Lifetime Achievement), Keny Whitright (Visionary) and Marty Garcia (Audio Innovator).

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Bidding Adieu to ‘Phantom’ on Broadway

For LD Andrew Bridge, the final April 16 production of Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera” after a 35-year run was particularly poignant. “The opulence and the way it is choreographed on stage, the scene changes and all that, we will miss that. There aren’t many shows that can do that now. We have something like 150 people working each performance. You can’t do Broadway shows today with that size crew, cast and a 27-piece orchestra, it’s just not viable. So, I think we’ll all miss the opulence of that kind of Broadway show.”

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360 Festivals: Festival Production Services, Simplified

One Call, One Vendor, One Team.

360 Festivals has brought together two of the nation’s top event production companies—Special Event Services (SES) and Music Matters Productions (MMP)—to provide a full spectrum of event production services with an extra emphasis on the client experience.

The process is simple: One call gets our clients access to our team of seasoned festival production professionals and a complete list of festival production services. For us, it means the chance to do more of what we love with expanded creativity and bigger production value. Here’s their 2022 video real:

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Who Knows Where We Go from Here?

PLSN Editor Michael S. Eddy covers some of the April 2023 issue’s highlights, including the epic 35-year run for Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” this month’s virtual production-focused “In the Volume” section, the use of virtual production tools on Blake Shelton’s live concerts and more.

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Product News: April 2023

PLSN’s April 2023 Product News section included details on the following products: hazebase’s THE CLASSIC2 and HIGHPOWER2; Claypaky’s Panify; Creative Conners’ Spotline v2 Hoist; ETC’s Source 4WRD Color II; Eventric’s Master Tour Venue Tech Packs; Harrington Hoists’ EM/SEM Series Mini Electric Chain Hoists; Marshall Electronics’ CV730-BHN and CV730-ND3 Cameras; and Pliant Technologies’ CrewCom CCU-08 Control Unit.

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