More details from ADLIB (http://www.adlibsolutions.co.uk):
LIVERPOOL, UK – Liverpool-based ADLIB rounded off a busy April 2012 tour supplying lighting and rigging equipment plus crew to comedian Jeff Dunham on his “Controlled Chaos” Tour.
The tour already had a design in place and a spec to which ADLIB worked.
Based on four trusses, the front one was in the ‘advanced’ position, around 30 feet out from the front of stage. This was rigged with eight Martin Professional MAC 700 Wash moving lights, four ETC Source Four Profiles with 19 degree lenses and seven 4-way linear Moles for audience illumination.
Above the middle section of the stage was a 56 ft wide truss that provided mid-stage lighting positions for 12 MAC 700 Profiles and a 24 ft wide by 18 ft high projection screen flown at 8 feet off the ground, complete with black drape masking.
The back truss also had black wool serge drapes hung on it for masking.
A flown 2 meter truss section accommodated two video projectors supplied by video contractors XL Video. The blacks on the back truss masked the left and right sides of the screen, leaving a clear path for the projector beams to shoot through.
On the stage floor at the back were 10 PixelPAR 90 fixtures, up-lighting the rear blacks.
ADLIB also supplied a pipe-and-drape system onstage which was covered in black wool serge and used to mask beneath and around the bottom sides of the screen.
ADLIB’s Charlie Rushton programmed and operated the lighting on an Avolites Pearl Expert console running the latest TITAN software.
Dunham was lit in white throughout, while the stage was washed in a variety of different colors, coded according to which of the five ‘characters’ was acting out the scene with him.
Everyone was delighted with the results, says ADLIB Account Handler Phil Kielty. “Hooking up with production manager Marnell White again, after Adlib’s partnership with Jeff Dunham’s 2010 tour was a real joy. Marnell is so easy going and we all ensure everything is just right, so Jeff can do what he does best and entertain capacity crowds. His ever increasing array of characters from Achmed to Walter and Peanut now take pride of place in the ADLIB offices.”
