BEIJING — More than 80 Robe moving lights have been installed at the Oriental Songlei Theatre, a new 1200 capacity cultural and arts centre here. The installation was part of a major joint venture by the Beijing Oriental Songlei Musical Development Company and the Dongcheng District Government of Beijing.
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LOS ANGELES — When LeRoy Bennett started specifying SGM’s X-5 LED strobes early this summer, he not only had Beyoncé’s The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour in mind but also the hard industrial sounds of Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails.
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BIRMINGHAM, U.K. — PRG (Production Resource Group UK) recently bolstered its rental inventory with a selection of SGM LED fixtures. The purchase included 46 P-5 RGBW wash lights.
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Harrington Hoists’ new full featured, three phase TNER Series Theatrical Chain Hoists are designed to reliably perform in theaters, concert halls, convention arenas, stadiums and studios.
Read More »MONTREAL — Francois Menard, president and shareholder of Solotech, recently announced shifts among its shareholders. Denis Lefrancois, co-president and one of the main architects of Solotech from its beginnings in 1977, has departed, along with a major Quebec-based institutional investor. In their place are three new strategic financial partners for the company: Claridge, Capital Regional et Cooperatif Desjardins and Investissement Quebec.
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LSC’s APS (Advanced Power System) power distribution unit is designed to remove the problems caused by the large in-rush and earth-leakage currents common with modern switch-mode power supplies found in audio amplifiers, intelligent lights, video-walls and LED fixtures, resulting in unwanted breaker trips.
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PARIS — A major pyro blast injured crew members prior to doors for the staging of a musical about the French revolution, 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille, at Palais des Sports de Paris. The show’s technical director, Marcus Toledano, 41, had a heart attack and later died.
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NEW YORK CITY – Video equipment rental company Pete’s Big TVs went to Wall Street to help Twitter open the New York Stock Exchange and launch its IPO offering on Nov. 7, 2013. Says Pete’s Big TVs VP Guy Benjamin, “We were contacted by production manager Michael Ahern with a week’s notice to supply LED video display of Twitter’s logo and Twitter feed for their big IPO launch day, when they began publicly trading on the stock market.”
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