PIGEON FORGE, TN — AV Concepts worked with the Dollywood theme park here and Fred Blurton Productions to integrate holographic technology into its first production of Dollywood’s A Christmas Carol as part of the annual annual Smoky Mountain Christmas presented by Humana celebration. Adapted from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the show, which debuted Nov. 9, includes four holographic characters.
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AUSTIN, TX — LD Marty Postma, who has been tinkering with the idea of wrapping and enveloping the rock band Alice In Chains with a lighting rig that surrounds them “like a shell” for several years, got the chance to “make it happen on a large scale” with gigs earlier this year. The fixtures specified for these shows centered on gear from High End Systems, including their ShowGun, Cyberlight 2.0, Intellaspot and TechnoArc units.
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AUSTIN, TX and NORTH CREEK, NY — Barco Lighting Systems’ Austin, TX-based subsidiary, High End Systems (HES) named Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) a Major Axon HD Reseller. CSL and its network of local resellers throughout the U.S. will offer HES’ Axon media server products to their end user customers.
Read More »HAMBURG, Germany — Rasta Thomas and Adrienne Canterna, the husband-and-wife team behind the Bad Boys of Dance company (BBD) and its Rock the Ballet productions, are taking a new rock ballet, and update on William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, on the road in Germany. LDs Patrick Woodroffe and Roland Griel included 16 Clay Paky Sharpy Wash fixtures in the production’s lighting design. Showconcept supplied the gear.
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LONDON — Henry V, the last of the five plays produced as part of the debut season of the Michael Grandage Company, was lit with White Light-supplied gear at London’s Noël Coward Theatre. The company provide lighting gear for all five productions at MGC West End for the 2012-2013 debut season.
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