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ATLANTA – Active Production and Design has recently added several dozen Elation Professional Platinum Series moving heads to its inventory. The addition of Platinum Profile 35 Pro and Platinum Spot 15R Pro moving heads complements Active’s expansive lighting inventory. Pictured here is Matt Clouser, Active Production and Design’s owner, with the new fixtures.

GREENWICH, CT — Joseph P. Harris, a Tony award-winning theatrical producer and board member at PRG, died Feb. 11 at his home. Harris, who had supported more than 200 Broadway productions as a producer and manager since 1948, was 87.

SYRACUSE, NY – Entertainment artists who like designing on the fly – or watching a Chopped-style real-life challenge – will get their chance at USITT 2015 in Cincinnati. Among the 275 sessions, events, and activities at the Duke Energy Convention Center March 18-21 are several “game show” competitions asking designers to create on deadline.

TAMPA, FL – Usher kicked off his current “The UR Experience” tour in November with Elation Professional’s award-winning Sniper multi-effect light used extensively throughout the show as a key accent element including laser simulation. The Sniper, Elation’s new beam, scanner and laser simulator in one, has been used on a growing number of shows and special events since its launch last October, both in the U.S. and abroad.

MIDDLETON, WI – If your DOB (date of birth) is prior to 1990, you may not know that EDM stands for Electronic Dance Music – the offspring of a musical orgy attended by disco, techno, house and reggae sometime in the late Eighties. In an act of revenge for those who declared disco to be dead, EDM has emerged as the fastest growing sector of the live-entertainment industry. EDM will be around long after the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac wrap up their very last (they promise) reunion tours. If you don’t believe this, you should hack your kid’s Twitter account. Like the social media that fuels this musical form, widespread acceptance is a danger-signal and a cue to move on to something new.

PADUCAH, KY – Replacing inefficient incandescent bulbs has not only been a government-mandated trend but a blessing in disguise for Paducah, Kentucky’s Lone Oak First Baptist Church where are all worshipers can now clearly see their Bibles, hymnals and bulletins thanks to a recent installation of nearly 100 elektraLite Dazer LED fixtures.

NEW YORK – Royal Caribbean’s newest luxury cruise liner, Quantum of the Seas, set sail in November with a full complement of Elation Professional lighting and video products and Acclaim architectural fixtures. The ship, the third largest cruise liner in the world, can accommodate more than 4,000 passengers. Amenities include a sky-diving simulator, bumper cars, robotic bartenders and the North Star attraction, which gives guests a gull’s eye view of the ship by extending them up and out more than 300 feet above the ocean.

TAMPA, FL – When American R&B/Hip-Hop star Usher set out on his 50-date UR Experience U.S. and European tour to promote his latest album (UR), his touring LD Eric Wade (of FOHShow) was carrying an inventory that included 216 of GLP impression X4 S LED spots. They form a focal part of the design conceived by production designers Baz Halpin and Chris Nyfield (Silent House) and Wade himself.