NEW ORLEANS, LA – The National World War II Museum's new 70,000-square-foot $60-million complex, which includes the Solomon Victory Theater, Stage Door Canteen and The American Sector restaurant, opened recently as part of the museum's overall $300-million expansion. All three venues depend on ETC lighting and control gear to provide a compelling guest experience.
Read More »LONDON – E/T/C has been divided into two separate entities based in London and Paris, and projection artist and designer Ross Ashton has acquired ETC UK Ltd.
Read More »LOS ANGELES and LAS VEGAS – In a move that adds inventory as well as a new location, 4Wall Entertainment has purchased the assets of Cinelease's Event Lighting division. Cinelease Event Lighting previously included two shops in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. While the Las Vegas location will be merged into the current 4Wall Las Vegas facility, the Los Angeles location will now be known as 4Wall-LA.
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LONDON – City Theatrical named Alex Cowan European sales manager. He will be based at the company's London office, building the City Theatrical distribution network in Europe and helping customers to get the lighting accessories they need.
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX – Xtreme Structures announced a new iPhone application called iTruss. Available for download for $4.99 through the Apple iTunes store, the application is geared to help users in the field quickly determine load, span or truss sizes needed for their projects. The official Web site for the iTruss app is www.iTrussapp.com. From there, site visitors can link to where they can download the app from Apple's iTunes.
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SECAUCUS, NJ-Rose Brand has been offering a series of theatrical lighting tips recently as part of its "Know How" blog, linked from its Web site at www.rosebrand.com. Recent tips have included how to specify a stage curtain and how to light a sharkstooth scrim.
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MONTREAL – Stageline is supporting the Grand Défi Pierre Lavoie, a fitness awareness-building program and competition for kids, with a two-level mobile building unit that can be assembled outdoors by four crew members in about three hours.
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago – A recent Beyonce performance required the crew to turn Queen's Park Savanna into a concert venue for some 40,000 attendees. Beyonce's lighting team, led by Pat Brannon, LD, relied upon over 60 truss-mounted moving heads from PR Lighting for the show.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Given the economic hardships endured by businesses around the globe, organizers of Musikmesse and ProLight + Sound were bracing for a tough 2010 show. But the event attacted 2,340 exhibitors, 62 percent of them from outside Germany, and almost 110,000 visitors from 128 countries, which was only a modest decline from 2009's 2,388 exhibitors and 112,478 visitor counts.
Held from March 24-27, ProLight + Sound served as a focal point for product innovation in the live event industry. Here's a glimpse of some of the innovations on display.
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QUEENSBURY, NY – BMI Supply announced that it was consolidating resources from its smaller sister company, BMI Supply South, and focusing its efforts on its main operation here.
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LOS ANGELES – Mark Ferber, 60, a longtime production supervisor at the Hollywood Bowl, died March 14. A memorial service for Ferber will be held on-stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 11 a.m. It is open to the public.
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NEW YORK—After a world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the new musical American Idiot has just started preview performances on Broadway. Its energetic, generational, media-saturated set is fed by 15 Hippotizer HD V3 media servers supplied to the production by SenovvA, Inc. supported by Green Hippo Special Projects division.
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