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LONDON — Great Britain’s Royal Ballet recently staged Romeo and Juliet for an audience of 12,000, not at their home venue at Covent Garden, but at London’s vast O2 arena. The spatial experiment was deemed a success and the complex production relied on an ETC Eos lighting control system.

NOVA GORICA, Slovenia — KSL Studio d.o.o, Robert Juliat’s Slovenian distributor, has supplied 40 Robert Juliat 614SX 1200W tungsten profile spots to the National Theatre Nova Gorica in Slovenia, where they will be the main workhorses for the theatre’s varied program.

LONDON — Even if the name Sue Sylvester doesn’t yet frighten the life out of you and you’ve never heard of Glee, there’s little doubt you will do soon. As Glee fever sweeps the UK, the hit high school TV drama has inspired British kids to compete in a charity fund-raising spin-off called Comic Relief does Glee Club. The show was aired during Comic Relief Week, when the whole country gets together to entertain each other and raise cash for UK charities.

KINGS LYNN, Norfolk, UK — The Glade Festival, a celebration of electronic dance music festival that started out as a stage at Glastonbury, was staged in Houghton Hall this year, and a key supporter of the 2011 event was Central Presentations Ltd (CPL), which is based in West Midlands and Bristol, UK. CPL coordinated and supplied a full technical production package encompassing video, lighting and sound for the Overkill stage.

LONDON — White Light has recently added 50 Martin Professional MAC III series fixtures to their inventory of Martin Professional lighting gear. The new purchase includes both MAC III Profile and MAC III Performance fixtures, Martin’s 1500W high-output profile moving heads. Lighting professionals will be able to get a closer look at the new MACs, as well as a host of other Martin gear, when the Martin Road Show visits the White Light facilities on Thursday, June 30, 2011.

SYDNEY — With a production valued at over $25 million, Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite-Les Folies Tour 2011 features over a million moving parts, including 30 high impact water jets, rain curtains, fountains and nearly 600 light sources. The custom stage, which by itself cost over $10 million, is designed to be technically advanced, complex and precise.