TORONTO — CAST Software is offering wysiwyg Perform Special Student Edition for $499, plus taxes and shipping. Perform SSE’s regular price is $4,999. Upon graduation, CAST will also credit the $499 toward the purchase of the full professional version of wysiwyg Design or Perform.
Read More »KANSAS CITY, MO — USITT has announced plans for Broadway-themed seminars prior to the start of the association’s Annual Conference & Stage Expo. The conference already has four days of workshops set for March 31-April 3. The Broadway seminars, a joint project with USITT fellow Sonny Sonnenfeld, are slated for March 29 and 30.
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Strong Entertainment Lighting’s new Canto 2000 FF followspot, from the Italian manufacturer LDR (Luci della Ribalta), makes its LDI debut this year.
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BOSTON — For the grand opening of the W Boston hotel, Light Insight Design Studio and High Output, Inc. collaborated on a temporary lighting design using Chauvet ColorDash Quad LED light fixtures in each of the corner rooms in the 28-story building.
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NEW YORK — Jason Lyons, LD for the Broadway musical Rock of Ages, is using a Martin MAC rig for the rock anthem-infused love story at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
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TAIZHOU, China — The Golden Autumn concert drew about 40,000 people to the TaiZhou Sports Centre Stadium for music and comedy. The televised event was lit by LD Bovey Xie using mix of Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs — over 100 Robe moving lights in all.
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MANASSAS, VA — The new Edward L. Kelly Leadership Center was built for Virginia’s Prince William school system at a cost of $37.5 million. Techniarts, the AV installer, chose Middle Atlantic furniture and equipment enclosures for all of the control and conference rooms.
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LONDON — White Light supported One More Time, the theatrical gala held at the Piccadilly Theatre in support of Future Dreams and breast cancer charity Breakthrough.
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — Staging Dimensions, Inc. helped the Borgata Water Club optimize usable floorspace for special events. The clear pool cover involved coming up with a modular system that was easy to assemble, disassemble and store.
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Elation Professional credits a new light source technology for giving its Platinum Spot 5R the ability to emit an output comparable to a 575-watt fixture in a moving head fixture that’s half the size and weight of a typical 250-watt fixture, while using less than half the energy.
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The Evo variable speed chain hoist controller from Kinesys is designed to comply with the BGV C1 life-safety standard and offers zero-speed performance for ultra-slow movement cues and instantaneous starts. An integrated loadcell provides precise load information while dual encoders offer accurate and secure positioning. A metal enclosure houses the controller, with truss and rack mounting options.
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Christie MicroTiles are modular digital display tiles that can be stacked and clustered like building blocks to create display walls of various shapes and sizes. Christie cites color and image reproduction, wide viewing angles, and a near-absence of seams on display walls as advantages, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles.
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