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NEW YORK – LD Susan Nicholson used Elation Professional’s Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads for front lighting, backlighting and texturing on a recent Off Broadway production of the new musical drama, Death for Five Voices. Nicholson used the Platinum Spot 35 Pro for front light and highlights for the production, which was staged March 24 through April 17 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New Yorky. The production was inspired by the life and work of Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo.

INDIO, CA – At the Coachella Music and Arts Festival’s Gobi Tent, Sean Coates of RK Diversified Entertainment lit an eclectic array of performers with a design that included 15 Rogue R2 Beam fixtures from Chauvet Professional mounted on five “fingers” of overhead truss.

HOUSTON -– The 2016 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, offering three days of music April 1-3 to Houston’s Discovery Green just prior to the April 4 final matchup between Villanova and North Carolina, drew huge crowds with a roster of headliners that included Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Pitbull, among others. John Dickson of LD Systems in Houston worked with Turner Live Events to create the rig with programming done by individual band LDs. Throughout the festival, the high-impact show gained energy from the rapid movements of the rig’s 32 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional.

LONDON – For the annual Classical Spectacular at London’s Royal Albert Hall March 17-20, LD Durham Marenghi used a symphony of Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, Alpha Spot HPE 1500 and Alpha Spot HPE 700 fixtures to create a dynamic lighting show. Put on by the legendary classic music promoter Raymond Gubbay, the dramatic overtures were complemented by cannons, guns and 2,000 indoor fireworks, which brought the show to a thundering finale.

LOS ANGELES – The MAC Axiom Hybrid U.S. Launch Tour will bring new gear from Martin Professional to eight U.S. cities in May and June. Starting in Los Angeles, the tour continues to Las Vegas, Dallas, Nashville, TN, Atlanta, Chicago, Wilmington, DE and ends in New York City. Featured products include Martin’s MAC Axiom Hybrid, which was also showcased at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this month.

NORWALK, CT – Tony Award-winning production manager and founder of Aurora Productions, Gene O’Donovan, joined Theatre Projects’ staff recently as part of the company’s ongoing guest speaker series. Theatre Projects’ speaker series invites accomplished performing arts professionals to share their insights, history, and philosophy, and engage in a back-and-forth conversation with staff in order to better understand the challenges they’ve faced, the facilities they operate in, and the trajectory of the performing arts.