MELBOURNE, Austalia – Powa Productions provided Robe gear for a leg of a Queen tribute show, It's A Kinda Magic. Powa Productions was the official lighting, audio, staging and truck supplier for that leg of the tour, and Powa Production's Simon "Junior" Johnson served as LD for the world tour. Johnson specified Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 575E AT moving light fixtures to be the workhorses of the rig, due to their compact size, weight and output, making them well-suited for the venues they were visiting.
Fourteen Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs and 10 Robe ColorWash 575E ATs were the main moving lights on stage, joined by 140 Multipars and Robe Fog 1500 FT Smoke Machines and Hazers.
"Queen were all about big bold looks and massive banks of color so the PARs were grouped together in five 16 lamp pods with the movers arranged around the stage and on the back truss to fill in the gaps," Johnson said.
Four additional towers with PARs gave the lighting some height variation, together with 4-lite blinders with scrollers and strobes. The Pods were rigged on ¼ ton motors hung off the back truss so they could move into different heights to create varying looks throughout the show.
"Everyone was very happy with the whole look and feel of the production," Johnson said. "I am especially happy with our Robe 575s – they are so reliable, and we haven't had a single problem with them yet."
This latest world tour for It's A Kinda Magic played 1,500 to 4,000 capacity venues in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, New Zealand and Indonesia.
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