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.
Twelve of the Hippotizer HDs are specially configured, running custom software, each outputting four 1280×720 feeds to a total of 44 HD Sony monitors which are built into the set. The remaining three HD Hippotizers utilize Green Hippo’s new UberPan feature to create an ultra-HD scenic projection across the surface of the set via three sideways-mounted 20k Barco projectors. All the HD Hippotizers, plus one HippoCritter, are networked by Hippotizer’s Zookeeper software running a timeline triggered by the show’s lighting control console, an ETC EOS.
Directed by Michael Mayer and featuring music by punk trio Green Day, American Idiot follows the journey of a new generation of young Americans as they struggle to find meaning in a post 9/11 world, lived through Green Day’s score. Mayer leads a creative team that includes scenic design by Christine Jones, video and projection design by Darrel Maloney and lighting design by Kevin Adams.
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