NEW YORK — In a June 7 ceremony hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming and broadcast live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall, the 69th Tony Awards honored LDs Paule Constable and Natasha Katz and scenic designer teams Bunny Christie/Finn Ross and Bob Crowley/59 Productions for plays and musicals appearing on Broadway in 2014/2015.
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EUROPE – LD Steven Douglas selected Solaris LED Mozarts pixel-mapping RGBW fixtures for Brandon Flowers’ Desired Effects world tour.
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ORLANDO, FL – Special world premiere product launch event to highlight innovation-packed show for Elation Professional with products including the EHD2.5, Platinum FLX, ACL Series, Colour 5 profile and more.
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LAS VEGAS — Imagine Dragons’ new tour is more than dry ice and fancy lights. Smoke + Mirrors 2015 plays with and subverts preconceived notions of what a rock show can or should be. It translates the band’s sophomore album into the language of live performance and writes the story large on the stages of the world. For the audience, the result is a deliberately-paced emotional journey, a full circle transformation full of inversions, delays and surprises.
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AUSTRALIA – Austrian-based rental and production company MartinKames.com has added Elation’s award-winning Sniper multi-effect light as well as Elation Cuepix WW blinders to its rental inventory.
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CELETNA, Prague – Prague Quadrennial details some of the program highlights and what is to be expected from this year’s events.
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LE CHAMP-PRÈS-FROGES, France – Jennifer Lopez recently performed a stunning rendition of her latest single, ‘Feel the Light’, during an episode of this year’s American Idol, taken from the soundtrack for the latest DreamWorks feature length animated film, Home, featuring Airstar Accent and Crystal LED products.
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LAS VEGAS – Jason Eible, with Boca Raton, FL-based Frank Gatto and Associates, served as lighting director for the May 2 matchup between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Las Vegas. Eible relied on Avolites’ Sapphire Touch console the lighting cues for the event, which reportedly brought in $410 million in pay-per-view TV revenue alone.
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SMITHFIELD, RI – Technical Director of New Life Worship Center and the Awakening Conference, Robert Santilli, commissioned Chauvet Professional’s Nextt NXT-1 moving head LED panels for the 2015 conference’s lighting and visual display.
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DALLAS, TX – The Tropicana marked the beginning of summer and Memorial Day Weekend with the unveiling of an audio/visual show with Syncrolite SXL automated Xenon Skylights.
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CYPRESS, CA – FOR-A announces its participation at the upcoming InfoComm Show, where the company will showcase video switcher, video transmission, multi-viewer and character generator technology. Taking place June 17-19 in Orlando, FL., InfoComm is the world’s largest event for professional AV. FOR-A will exhibit in Booth #4361.
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MONTREAL, Canada – Luminex Network Intelligence, manufacturer of network backbone solutions, will show its GigaCore Ethernet switches with AES67/Dante interoperability support in Booth #632 at InfoComm 2015, June 13-19, in the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando.
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