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Stratford Shakespeare Festival and IATSE Reach Audience Services Agreement

Last July the box office and call center at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival voted to join IATSE Local 357. Over the course of the next year, the union and the Festival met to hammer out a contract. It was hard going, and on May 25 the union was in a strike position, ready to picket the opening of the Festival on May 28. A final bargaining session, though, produced a tentative contract on Sunday, May 27. The season opened with no pickets, and the contract was ratified by union membership on June 3. The new contract ensures the Festival won’t outsource the jobs, and also provides a 5.5% raise over the two-year agreement.

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Photo of Rock of Ages setup by David James.

LD Mike Baldassari Lights “Rock of Ages” Concert Scenes

LOS ANGELES – Set in the summer of 1987, the New Line Cinema film, Rock of Ages, brings us back to the future with a long playlist of that era’s music from acts that include Journey, Def Leppard, Night Ranger, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Poison, Whitesnake, and others. The movie adaptation of the popular Broadway musical, directed by Adam Shankman and starring Tom Cruise as the fictional rock star Stacee Jaxx, faithfully tries to replicate the late 80’s in every detail and that includes getting that old school rock lighting just right with hard backlight, high contrast, and saturated colors.

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Dry Hire Lighting Gears Up with Clay Paky

LONDON – Dry Hire Lighting has purchased a large number of Clay Paky products in anticipation of their busy summer event season. With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee just past and the Olympics gathering steam, Dry Hire Lighting is ensuring it is well prepared to service the increase in demand for rental gear.

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H2O Festival

H2O Music Festival Just Adds GoVision

DALLAS – Saturday’s H2O Music Festival featured LED video screens from GoVision LP to ensure the thousands of fans could see Tiesto, Weezer, Mana, Juanes, Snoop Dogg and others on the bill. GoVision erected twin 39 ft x 28 ft LED walls on each side of the main stage, along with a split 30 ft x 48 ft upstage backdrop screen, all configured from their inventory of Daktronics PST-12HD tiles.

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Robe ROBIN DLX

Robe Launches 4 Products in US at InfoComm

LAS VEGAS – Robe Lighting is launching four products in the US at InfoComm 2012: ROBIN DLX and DLF, the ROBIN 100 LEDBeam, and the Actor 6 for the theatre, performance and TV/broadcast applications. These and other products will be showcased at Booth #C12402 at the Las Vegas Convention Center June 13-15.

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ZZ Top, 3 Doors Down Cancel Alabama Show Due to Stage Safety Concerns

ATMORE, AL — The “Gang of Outlaws” tour stop at the Wind Creek Casino and Amphitheater set for June 9 was cancelled due to stage safety concerns. The tour’s headliners include ZZ Top, 3 Doors Down and Gretchen Wilson. Roland Castillo of IATSE 134 San Jose, head rigger on the ZZ Top tour, was credited for canceling the show, according to a posting on the website for the Event Safety Alliance (eventsafetyalliance.org).

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Eurovision

Hippotizers Serve Eurovision Song Contest

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Battling it out for Europe’s highest vote, Green Hippo’s Hippotizers were at the core in pulling off a spectacular show at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. This year the content resolution was really pushed for LED screens with 4000 x 3000 pixels being used, along with the outputs of 6 active Hippotizer HDs genlocked together.

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Coachella

Prelite’s Previsualization Helps Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg at Coachella

INDIGO, CA – The annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, with its 24/7 schedule and desert location, poses a challenge for performers and their lighting and media crews alike.  So when the lighting designer, lighting programmer/director and media programmer for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg opted to use Prelite Studios’ previsualization services prior to the show, they gained some distinct advantages.

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