NEW YORK—Billy Elliot, The Musical was the big winner at the 2009 Tony Awards, taking home 10 awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Lee Hall), Best Direction of a Musical (Stephen Daldry) Best Choreography in a Musical (Peter Darling), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Ian MacNeil), Best Lighting Design (Rick Fisher) and Best Sound Design (Paul Arditti).
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HARROW, U.K. — Artistic Licence is following last year’s RDM Splitter Upgrade with the introduction of the Rack-Split RDM RJ45. It’s a 1-to-9-universe DMX512 splitter with isolated input, supporting both RDM and High End Systems Talkback protocol, housed in a 1RU 19-inch rack mount casing.
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LAS VEGAS — Each year PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. The best part about this is that PLSN readers — the people who actually work with these companies — get to decide who’s really the best.
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh area residents no longer have to hop on a plane to get a taste of Las Vegas. Cannery Casino Resorts, a Las Vegas casino developer, and Chauvet have brought a bit of Vegas to North Strabane, Penn., located on Pittsburgh’s southern fringe.
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BRIGHTON, U.K. — Amber Lites (Scotland) Ltd is providing Chroma-Q Color Web 125 LED panels for scenic elements for the Elaine Paige 40th Anniversary UK tour. Paige, dubbed “the First Lady of British Musical Theatre,” is marking 40 years since she made her West End debut and started on a career that has garnered eight gold albums.
Read More »LONDON — Goboland UK, a newly-formed company that reunites Wyatt Enever and Vicky Fairall, was launched at the ABTT show. Enever, founding member and former managing director of DHA Lighting, is a longtime gobo developer. Fairall, former graphics manager and CSM for DHA Lighting, also worked as Head of UK Operations at Goboland’s head office in Belgium.
Read More »ORLANDO — PRG Distribution North America will be teaming up with Tannoy complementing that company's audio gear in its demo room, #W205A, with lighting gear demos as well.
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LONDON —Lionel Richie recently completed his European tour in support of Just Go, which included shows in major arenas and smaller theatres. Lars Brogaard, who had worked previously with Richie back in the early 1980s, took on overall production management duties for the tour.
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LOS ANGELES — A.C.T Lighting is now the exclusive U.S. and Canadian distributor for the LiteWare stand-alone, battery-powered, DMX-controllable RGB light manufactured by Bristol, U.K.-based Global Design Solutions.
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TOKYO — The first ETC Eos lighting control system to be sold in Japan just hit the road with singer-songwriter and pianist Angela Aki. It is the first time that an ETC console has been selected as the main console to control moving lights and LED fixtures in Japan.
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AUSTIN, TX —Barco announced that High End Systems’ Showbeam 2.5 is being used on three major tours — No Doubt, The Crystal Method and the upcoming Aerosmith tour.
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NEW YORK—Scharff Weisberg, Inc. had a busy season on and off Broadway supplying three productions—33 Variations, Impressionism and Distracted—with comprehensive video system packages designed to be user-friendly and adaptable to the needs of very different shows.
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