LONDON – Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Wizard of Oz will open at the London Palladium in March with lighting gear provided by White Light. LD Hugh Vanstone's rig will include a selection of moving lights from Vari-Lite, Martin Professional, Clay Paky and Coemar, plus a variety of LED fixtures and conventional gear. The moving lights include Vari*Lite VL500Bs, VL3000Qs, Martin MAC TW1s, MAC 700s, MAC III Profiles, Clay Paky Alpha Washes and Coemar ACL-M beamlights. The LED gear includes i-Pix BB4s and PixelLine 1044s. A complement of ETC Source Four profiles, PARs, L&E battens, Wybron scrollers, High End Systems Dataflash, Martin Atomics and UV Fresnels from Altman rounds out the rig.
For atmosphere, the production is using Look Solutions Viper and Viper/Le Maitre Freeze Fog Pro combinations plus MDG Atmosphere haze machines, with a grandMA full size and grandMA Light used for control.
The production is directed by Jeremy Sams, choreographed by Arlene Phillips and designed by Robert Jones, and other crew members working directly with Vanstone include production electrician Fraser Hall, programmer Stuart Porter and production manager Matt Towell.
White Light has also given the show's video designer, Jon Driscoll, and assist with Rosco's LightPad LED unit to meet the need for a compact, bright, low-temperature light source for the sub-stage "video booth" for the Michael Crawford's Wizard.
Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bill Kenwright, The Wizard of Oz opens at the London Palladium on March 1. Previews started Feb. 7.
For more information, please visit www.WhiteLight.Ltd.uk and www.wizardofozthemusical.com.
