LONDON — White Light is supplying the rig for the Whoopi Goldberg/Stage Entertainments production of the musical Sister Act at the London Palladium, which is being directed by Peter Schneider, designed by Klara Zieglerova and lit by LD Natasha Katz. Working with Katz on the show is associate lighting designer Yael Lubezky and production electrician Pete Lambert, with Stewart Crosbie serving as the show’s production manager. The show features a score by composer Alan Menken.
In supplying the rig, White Light is continuing its collaboration with Epic Production Technologies, begun on the London production of Lord of the Rings, using some of the automated lighting equipment previously used on that show.
The rig includes a wide selection of conventional, automated and LED lighting equipment, including over 400 ETC Source Fours, over 250 Wybron Coloram II scrollers, over 60 Vari-Lite VL3500Q Spots, 32 VL2500 Wash fixtures, 22 VL500A Washes, 20 ColorBlaze and five ColorBlast LED fixtures from Philips-Color Kinetics.
Atmospheric effects gear includes Look Solutions (Viper smoke machines, Cryo low fog generators) and MDG (Atmosphere haze machines). Control for the rig is being split between an ETC Obsession II and an MA grandMA console.
“We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with Natasha Katz, whose work in New York we have admired for so long,” said Bryan Raven, managing director, White Light. “We hope that we’ll be able to look after her during her time in London and support her work at the Palladium creating this fun new musical. We’re also very happy to be able to continue our close working relationship with Epic, which worked so well during The Lord of the Rings, to supply the lighting rig the show needs.”
The show joins the many others in London and around the U.K. using lighting equipment from White Light, these currently including Beauty and the Beast, Billy Elliot, Carousel, Chicago, Dirty Dancing, Grease, Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, Singing in the Rain, War Horse, We Will Rock You, and The Witches of Eastwick.
For more information, please visit www.WhiteLight.Ltd.uk.
Photo by Catherine Ashmore
