CZECH REPUBLIC – MILOS has released its second video for their three-month spotlight on MILOS LED Screen Support Structures (1 April – 30 June). This… Read More »Spotlight on MILOS LED Screen Support Structures –2nd Video Released
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NORTHPORT, NY – For a production of Jekyll & Hyde The Musical at the John W Engeman Theater near Long Island’s north shore, LD Keith Truax has been using a collection of Ovation, Maverick and Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional. More specifically, Truax made use of six Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime ellipsoidals, six Ovation E-260WW ellipsoidals, three Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures and six Rogue R2 Washes.
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ATLANTA – Less than a month after opening the new home of the Atlanta Braves, SunTrust Park hosted Billy Joel for the venue’s inaugural concert. Having established a reputation with Major League Baseball Parks across the nation, G2 Structures was able to accommodate the demands associated with an event of this magnitude. G2’s team completed the setup of their K System Structure, converting the 41,000-seat stadium into a world class concert venue, in just over two days.
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NASHVILLE – It’s a scene Bandit Lites has grown accustomed to seeing over its near 50 years in the touring industry: screaming fans overwhelmed with excitement at seeing their idol live, and singer-songwriter Jacob Sartorius’s fans are certainly enthusiastic, as his live shows this April showed. Hailed as the “new Justin Bieber,” the 14 year old embarked with a lighting package provided by Bandit for his headlining The Last Text Tour.
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LOS ANGELES — Desert Trip, the two-weekend classic rock festival that was self-mockingly referred to as “old-chella” by some of the performers onstage, will not be a regularly scheduled annual event, according to Goldenvoice CEO Paul Tollett, in an interview with Billboard magazine.
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NEW YORK – Theatre Communications Group (TCG) noted that its 28th annual TCG National Conference will take place in St. Louis, MO from June 14 to 16, 2018.
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INDIO, CA – Empire of the Sun performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’s Sahara Stage with artistic flourishes that included glowing pyramids and a six-pronged stage element cradling a white orb. The light show featured a blend of bright white light and vivid colors, programmed and controlled by Dave Taylor, who used a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console.
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NEW YORK – Bon Jovi’s “This House Is Not For Sale” tour opened with select dates in the U.S. Canada and the U.K. last fall, and recently completed another leg earlier this year from Feb. 8 (Greenville, SC) to mid-April, finishing with two shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden. PRG supplied the tour rig, which included 36 Claypaky Scenius Spots, controlled by Joe Bay, lighting director and programmer, who used a grandMA2 Full lighting console for control.
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VAN NUYS, CA – Joshua Harris, longtime webmaster for PLSN.com, died April 19, 2017 after suffering a heart attack. He was 42.
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NEW YORK – The tour manager for Animals as Leaders, an instrumental progressive metal band that formed in Washington DC in 2007, asked if Squeek Lights owner and LD Victor Zeiser could create big lighting looks for the band while keeping their floor package to a minimum. Zeiser got it down to a single pallet of gear, focusing on fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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SELMA, CA — Steve White, a veteran production manager who ran Avalon Attraction’s San Diego operations in the 1980s, then worked at Screenworks for more than two decades before retiring last fall, was found dead in his home in Selma, CA on April 30. He was 61.
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