LONDON — More than 80 people were hurt, four seriously, in a ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre here on Dec. 19. The 775-capacity theatre, which first opened in 1901, was nearly full when the ceiling fell a little after 8 p.m., according to reports. The staged production, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, had been underway for about 40 minutes when it was halted amid the fallen debris and dust.
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MIDDLETON, WI — In the last few years, ETC has entered new markets, introduced dozens of products, surpassed three million Source Four fixture sales, and gained new customers worldwide. To keep the pace of this steady growth, ETC is expanding its office in New York City and opening a new factory in Wisconsin.
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Mega-Lite’s VAZT single source LED lighting fixtures includes the VAZT LED P100, with a single red, blue, green, white and amber 100 watt LED, designed for color mixing; the VAZT LED VW100, with a 100W LED that displays whites in the 3,400K to 5,600K color temperature range, and the VAZT LED UV50 with a 50W UV LED.
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MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems added Michelle Grabel-Komar to its executive staff. Grabel-Komar joins the company as Vice President of Product Planning & Procurement. In this role, she will oversee the Purchasing, Product Management, Planning and Merchandising departments.
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GLENDALE, CA – Kinetic Lighting hired Yvette Fuentes as customer service representative. Fuentes is based at the company’s headquarters here.
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BIRENBACH, Germany — TS Veranstaltungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG, based here, recently expanded its existing Clay Paky inventory (14 Alpha Spot 300s) with 38 A.leda Wash K10s and eight Alpha Spot HPE 700s. The company, which had already owned a grandMA2 ultra-light, also purchased a grandMA2 light, a VPU light and a 4Port Node onPC from MA Lighting. Pictured here are Florian Daniel Tospann (second from right) with his team and some of the new products.
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WAUKESHA, WI — Blizzard Lighting, based here, reported that three of the company’s lighting fixtures — including their Torrent Xray, PixelStorm 240 LED fixtures and Eclipse DMX lighting control software — were used to produce Spike Channel’s Bar Rescue Episode 29, Season 3. The “Brawlin’ Babes” episode first aired Sunday 12/8/2013.
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SYDNEY — For Grammy Award winning singer / songwriter, actress and poet Jill Scott’s recent Australian tour, LD Martin Thomas of Relentless Lighting Design included Robe’s new Pointes in the rig. It was the first time the fixtures lit the artist.
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