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The Script Cancels Melbourne, Australia Show After Staging Mishap

MELBOURNE, Australia — Irish pop-rock trio The Script canceled the show set for Oct. 11 after staging elements collapsed during setup prior to the show, according to reports. Although workers were on site at the horseracing track where the band had been scheduled to perform, no injuries were reported in the Oct. 10 mishap. “So sorry we can’t play,” band members tweeted to fans after the accident. “The stage collapsed, thank God nobody was hurt. We’ll be back soon.”

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Bahamas Music Festival Rig Includes Nexus Panels

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — LD James Schipper of Kinetic Lighting (Glendale, CA) used 10 Nexus panels from Chauvet Professional on the overhead truss above the downstage portion of the 40-by-40-foot main stage for the 2014 Atlantis Paradise Music Festival, staged here Aug. 29-31. He also used eight panels on the indoor ballroom stage.

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PLSN editor Justin Lang

Changing Priorities Through Life

What is the most important thing in your life? Depending on your age, position in the industry and your family life, everyone will have varying answers. Early in a career, it might be friends and your career. But in the thirty-something to forties, your values might change, and it might be your family. Then in your fifties and sixties, you might start to be thinking more about your legacy and how you can pass everything important that you’ve learned about anything on to the next generation coming up.

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David S. Goldstein's set design for Stalking the Bogeyman. Photo by Jeremy Daniel.

Lighting and Set Designer David S. Goldstein: Sculpting the Story

New York-based scenic and lighting designer David S. Goldstein possesses a powerful passion for theater, and for him, his disciplines are perpetually married as he feels that they help to tell and sculpt the story that actors are portraying onstage, be it a musical or a straight play. “It’s not a prevalent practice in the United State, for a single designer to do lighting and sets,” observes Goldstein. “It is very prevalent for one designer to do set and costumes. In the United Kingdom, it’s the opposite — it’s very prevalent for one designer to do sets and lights and one to do costumes. ”

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