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Battersea Gets Powered by Elton John & Robe

Battersea Gets Powered by Elton John & Robe

Battersea Power Station Development Company on behalf of its shareholders, SP Setia, Sime Darby and Employees Provident Fund hosted a concert by Sir Elton John to thank everyone who is helping to make the development of the iconic Power Station a reality. The event featured a lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, with Robe moving lights on the rig and equipment supplied by west London based Colour Sound Experiment.

For more details, visit www.robe.cz

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Ron StageMaster Load Cells Used for Repositioning of Refurbished Isaac Theatre Royal Dome Ceiling

NEW ZEALAND – The end of March, 2014 marked a milestone for the iconic Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch, New Zealand, as “the grand old lady’s” iconic dome ceiling lifted back into its rightful place after an extensive refurbishment as a result of the February, 2011 earthquake. Rigging and stage equipment company ShowQuip of Christchurch was there with their Ron StageMaster wireless load cells from Eilon Engineering.

For more details, visit www.eilon-engineering.com and www.showquip.com

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PLSN editor Justin Lang

Looking Back and Moving Forward

How long have you been reading these pages of PLSN? A year, five years? Maybe 10? Maybe you are one of our original subscribers who have been enjoying the latest in industry news, production profiles, editorial and industry insights for the past 15 years. That is right, PLSN Magazine is five months into its 15th year in the business!  This month I want to share a little bit of history of how PLSN Magazine grew to become the largest magazine for our industry, not just in print, but online and via your mobile device as well.

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Bullets Over Broadway photo by Paul Kolnik

From the Cinema to the Stage: “Bullets Over Broadway”

Translating a film into a musical presents numerous challenges, and it certainly helps when you are the scenic designer who also did the production design on the original movie. Santo Loquasto has worked with Woody Allen on 27 films so far — the 28th goes into production this summer — and when the iconic director’s 1994 comedy Bullets Over Broadway was recently brought to the Great White Way, it made perfect sense for Loquasto to come aboard to help transform the 90-minute film into a two-and-a-half hour musical. In distinguishing them, Loquasto states that, visually, the two productions are different, and that he did not set out to recreate the look of the film so much as the spirit of it. And his approach paid off: he was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on the show.

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