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UK - With the original Broadway and West End productions winning 11 Tony and two Olivier Awards respectively, La Cage Aux Folles is back for what will be its first ever UK tour. Produced by Bill Kenwright Ltd, this classic stage show stars John Partridge and Adrian Zmed and is currently visiting venues up and down the country. White Light was approached to provide the lighting on this occasion.

La Cage Aux Folles tells the story of Georges and his partner, dazzling drag artiste Albin, who live an idyllic life in St Tropez. Yet when Georges' son Jean-Michel invites his future parent-in-laws over to dinner, Georges and Albin must try and conceal their vibrant lifestyle for an entire evening. The lighting designer for the production is Ben Cracknell. He comments, "From the offset, I knew this show would require two very clear lighting styles: the action taking place

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The Netherlands - Philips Lighting has announced the latest addition to its Philips Vari-Lite range of intelligent, high-performance entertainment fixtures - the VL6000 Beam.

After setting the trend for hybrid luminaires with the Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 BeamWash, Philips Entertainment Lighting is leading the way again with a new generation of beam light. Hailed as a 'revolutionary essential', the Philips VL6000 Beam is a feature-rich, mid-air effects light with a large 19" front aperture. It uses a new exclusive Philips ellipsoid reflector array system, producing a retro style searchlight effect from a high output column of light with a tight, 6.4° beam angle.

Reminiscent of the much-loved and iconic Philips Vari-Lite VL5 with its distinctive look, the Philips VL6000 Beam merges a plethora of new features with handpicked Philips Vari-Lite favourites to offer designers

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USA - ETC now has a new way to connect with end users and lighting and rigging professionals around the globe, thanks to the introduction of the company's new blog, called et cetera...

The blog came from a desire for a platform to share the interesting projects, ideas and accomplishments that ETC encounters every day. "We want to bring to light the stories and pictures that inspire and drive us, and to capture what is beyond ETC - the 'et cetera' of our world," describes ETC marketing communications manager Wendy Orfan.

ETC's blog will be a mix of posts written internally by ETC employees and externally by guest bloggers from inside and outside the industry. Initial et cetera... posts cover topics as varied as a breast cancer awareness event, the Easy-Bake Oven, and a charity that uses low-tech methods to bring light to people with limited access to electricity.

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USA - A former student at Dr. Phillips High School Theatre Magnet in Orlando, Florida, has been making creative use of GLP's X4 series to light school productions.

Michael Pagan's interest in lighting design dates back to his school days, starting off in the theatre world. "I became more and more interested in the art of lighting during middle school and when I first did my internship at PRG Orlando I saw GLP's X4's being tested for the first time and witnessed how much they could do," he remembers.

He undertook his first design using the fixtures for Orlando Business Journal. "The client wanted movement but we needed to keep the power consumption low, so the impression X4 was the answer."

He says there was much that impressed him about the fixture. "They are light weight but have the brightness equivalent to an arc lamp. The vibrant colours, where I can go from a past

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UK - Penn Elcom, working closely with EW Production Services, has specified and supplied over 2500 Osram, Comus LED and Integral LED lighting fixtures and lamps plus around 250m of LED Flex as part of a fully retro-fittable LED lighting solution for a number of different areas aboard the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines ship, MS Braemar.

Eight areas - including the Neptune Lounge main entertainment space and adjacent Morning Light pub as well as the vessel's engine room - have now been switched over from energy-hungry tungsten and fluorescent lights to cleaner, greener and hugely more cost efficient lighting sources which has also vastly improved the quality of the lighting for all aboard - guests and staff - to enjoy.

EW Production Services' operations manager Paul Byrne has a long-standing relationship with Penn whose Nigel Howse and Razvan Vasiliu co-ordinated the supply. The pr

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South Africa - Enchanting audiences year after year, the FNB Starlight Pop Opera was hosted at the Chris Saunders Park, Umhlanga in KwaZulu Natal on 6 and 7 August. Headliner Patrizio Buanne, the Neapolitan-Austrian baritone singer, songwriter and producer, along with local South African artists such as Arno Carstens, were accompanied by the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra.

The event is a gift from First National Bank to their top 1,500 clients where all service providers rise to the occasion to provide an extraordinary evening. For the fifth consecutive year, EPH Production supplied the full technical, while lighting designer Johan Ferreira from BF Production Services created magic moments on a grandMA2. The lighting rig also included 24 Claypaky Sharpys.

"As a lighting designer, this show is one of my annual highlights. It's dynamic ranging from opera to full on rock and is a

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UK - Now in its fifth year, VAULT Festival returns to London with six undiluted weeks of entertainment. Whether it is thrilling theatre, top notch comedy or exhilarating music performances, this year's festival is the biggest yet, with literally hundreds of new shows being programmed. Following its work on previous VAULT Festivals, White Light has been called upon once again to provide the lighting equipment and technical support.

VAULT Festival was founded in 2012 by Andy George, Tim Wilson and Mat Burt with the aim been to provide a fair and equal platform for emerging artists to showcase interesting and risky work. Andy, the festival co-director and production manager, comments, "Theatre can often be a very safe place where little risk is taken, largely due to commercial reasons. VAULT Festival is an opportunity to programme shows and acts that would normally be overlooked.

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Finland - Finland became an independent state on 6 December 1917. To celebrate this important moment in the country's history a huge crowd of more than 100.000 spectators gathered at the turn of the year at Kansalaistori Square in Helsinki.

The theme of Finland's centenary celebration year is Together. Visual designer Eero Helle created his design for this event name Finland 100 Grand Opening by relying on three grandMA2 light, one grandMA2 fader wing, four MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) and MA 3D for previsualisation.

Helle's design was based on more than 500 fixtures and 300sq.m of LED screen, including Clay Paky Sharpy, Laser Imagineering C-LED, Laser Imagineering Wing, Laser Imagineering Frisbee and Rober Juliat Victor follow spots.

"From my point of view there is no other option than grandMA2 for shows like these," Helle stated. "Especially when two or more oper

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USA - Elation Professional's Fuze Wash Z350 single source PAR moving head luminaire was chosen by ProSoundWeb readers to be a top lighting product in the entertainment technology industry, winning a 2017 Readers' Choice Award (RCA).

All voting for an RCA is by the readers of ProSoundWeb and end-users from around the world, and with more than 27,000 ballots cast last year is one of the most successful entertainment technology awards programs in the industry. This was the eighth annual edition of the ProSoundWeb Readers Choice Awards.

The Fuze Wash Z350 is one luminaire in Elation's Fuze Series of dynamic LED wash lights. It is a single source PAR moving head luminaire featuring a 350W quad colour RGBW COB LED for an extremely homogenized field of light and wide palette of colours.

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USA - Country music superstar Chris Young had an incredibly busy 2016, including #1 hits I'm Comin' Over and Think of You, a Christmas album and a massive headlining tour with an all new production look. His I'm Comin Over Tour, which is continuing in the New Year, features a lighting packaged provided by Bandit Lites.

With the show heavily featuring video, lighting designer Chris Lisle created a scalable lighting design featuring video while still allowing for punches of lighting around the content.

"Chris is one of those artists who allows his team to be creative and do their jobs - which we love!" said Lisle of the design process. "We had a couple of meetings with both him and management, and made some slight tweaks to the design, but overall were allowed creative freedom."

One fixture Chris Young liked specifically was Ayrton MagicPanels, so Lisle and

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USA - Psych pop jam band Madaila have been making waves since the release of their debut song The Dance in 2015. With their catchy synth heavy choruses, spontaneous melodic excursions and joyfully long riffs, the group is reminiscent of another jam band that came out of The Green Mountain State: Phish. Going beyond their free-flowing sound, however, Madaila captivates crowds with their shamefully unscripted dance moves, wildly colourful attire and overall antics.

Lighting designer Kyle Rose accented this up-and-coming band's jubilant stage presence at a recent appearance at Burlington's iconic Higher Ground Music Hall by adding eight Rogue R1 Spot fixtures to the house rig.

"We already had a Rogue-heavy rig with over 25 various Rogue fixtures flying over or positioned on the stage," said Rose, who serves as the house LD for the 600-capacity venue. "I used the added

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Mexico - Osvaldo Giuliano 'Chicho' is one of three partners in PRO3 an innovative, forward thinking lighting design collective based in Mexico City, with an office in the thriving creative community of Condesa.

There is a special synergy between the three individuals - Juan Carlos Zamudio "Charly" and Fulkas Camacho - are Chicho's partners. They all bring different personalities, ideas and talents to a show design and their work.

They own a quantity of their own lighting equipment - kit which they feel no design is complete without - and this includes 36 x Robe Pointes together with some other fixtures and effects, all stored in a warehouse in Iztapalapa, another part of the city away from the inspirational bohemia of Condesa.

Their Robe fixtures are out constantly on their own projects, including a recent tour with OV7 y Kabah, two youth groups who joined forces to co

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UAE - An impressive 18m pixels of custom video and graphics content was powered by three Avolites Ai T Series media servers during Emiriti star-studded stage event FakhrakYaWatan (The Pride of the Nation) as part of Emirate Ras Al Khaimah's 'National Celebration Day' festivities.

The show was the result of three years of meticulous planning between Ras Al Khaimah's national government and prominent Dubai-based production specialist Lighthouse Productions (LHP), that enlisted the power of two Avolites Ai T4 media servers and one Avolites Ai T8 media server to deliver the show's substantial video element.

"Lighting and digital content now drives the majority of live events," says Terry Miranda, founder and managing director of LHP. "It was crucial for us as a production company working on such an event to have access to a reliable video control manufacturing brand. A show of

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UK - A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. (AC-ET) has been appointed as an exclusive distributor for Quasar Science and will be showcasing the brand's product range on their stand (107) at this year's BSC show at Battersea Evolution, this week.

Quasar Science's innovative LED-based lamps offer direct replacement of conventional fluorescent fixtures - saving time and providing a very cost effective solution for upgrading existing lighting instruments to energy-efficient LED sources, as an alternative to complete replacement of the fixtures themselves.

Offering dimmer-compatible technologies, designed by studio electrical lighting technicians, their products are flicker-free, have a CRI of 95+, and a lamp life of up to 25,000 hrs.

The Quasar Science Q-Line range is available in both switchable bi-colour (from 3,000K - 5,600K) and cross-fade variable colour versions - and

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USA - Wonderama, a revival of the popular '60s kids variety show, rolled out this month on Tribune Broadcasting's cable network, with a set featuring Solaris Mozart LED fixtures. Hosted by David Osmond (of the talented Osmond family), 13 weekly episodes are in the can with 30 more scheduled.

"We're using 14 Mozarts now, but I'd love to have 150," says show LD Herrick Goldman of HG Lighting Design Inc., New York. "Placed on vertical legs of truss at the back of the set, they're the perfect eye candy for imparting action and energy. Our director, Bob Conover, challenged us to make the room as kinetic and vibrant as possible while still shooting in the round.

Controlled with a GrandMA and bit-mapped for kinetic rainbow effects, we use Rosco diffusion for a slightly softer, homogenous image. They look great for a live audience as well as the TV viewers. Being a seven-ca

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USA - Ben Coker, lighting designer for Porter Robinson and Madeon's co-headlining Shelter theatre tour, has just finished an extensive 34-date run in the US, with Robe BMFL Spots and WashBeams and Pointes prominent on the rig.

The decision to play primarily theatres and sit down venues has been hugely successful and allowed them to present their music in a different context and environment. The show took on the style and feel of a concert with individual songs / breaks in between, live vocals much of the time and a selection of live instruments introduced and played throughout the set from electric pianos to percussion.

It was something 'out-of-the-box' for the electronic music scene and different with a new and interesting energy from these two leading electronic artists. Ben started the design process well in advance, producing multiple concepts which were presented to t

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USA - Apollo Design Technology, Inc. has announced the appointment of Aaron Creps as a production technician. In this role, Creps is responsible for the assembly and testing of mechanical and electronic subassemblies and products including precision calibration. He will also provide technical assistance to internal personnel and customers.

"Aaron brings great technical skills and a strong mechanical background to the Apollo team," said Mr. Joel Nichols, president of Apollo Design. Prior to joining Apollo Design Technology, Creps worked at Fort Wayne Nissan in the service department. He holds a Technical Certificate from Universal Technical Institute. "I'm excited to join Apollo," said Creps. "It's a great opportunity to grow my mechanical and technical skills while working with a fun group of people."

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The Netherlands - Avolites is on stand 8-K330 at ISE Amsterdam, which opens today at the RAI Exhibition and Conference Centre, to launch its powered up new range of Ai R Series media servers.

The Ai R Series is Avolites' most powerful range of media servers to date, and comprises the Ai Infinity R4, Ai Infinity R8, Ai Infinity Rx4 and Ai Infinity Rx8. All servers in the range take advantage of the increased speed and power of the latest processors, solid-state drives and AMD graphics cards.

"We've packed the very best technology into the Ai R Series so we can be sure it satisfies even the most demanding of applications," says Avolites' MD, Steve Warren. "The servers offer smooth playback of up to 8K media using the leading AiM Codec plus 4 or 8 full 1080p HD outputs. The Ai R Series is the future of media technology now, direct from Avolites. We can't wait to showcase what

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UK - New Order's recent UK and European tour in support of their latest album, Music Complete, featured a vibrant lighting design controlled via an Avolites Arena console.

The tour marked the first time lighting designer Andrew Liddle opted for the Arena - Avolites' latest console.

"I was really keen to give the Arena a try and it proved very worthwhile," says Liddle. "I saw it to be a natural progression from the Avolites Tiger Touch I've been using since 2010, and found it to be a whole lot more. Hardware wise, it's the complete package - lid off and good to go. For what it is, it's really compact, not too bulky or weighty, and the layout's great and the second screen is useful too."

Alongside the main display, the Arena offers a second touch screen providing an additional workspace window and also labelling the adjacent macro buttons and rotary pots. These fu

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UK - Working with production designers, Louis Oliver and James Scott of Okulus Design, PRG XL Video supplied lighting, rigging, and video for Chvrches most recent UK tour.

The package combined specially adapted trussing, a variety of lighting types, plus custom-built LED video towers.

Oliver's multi-layer design centred around three monoliths of LED video screen. This was built from PRG XL Video's MC-7T LED, supplied by senior account manager, Paul McCauley, and housed in custom units built specially for the tour. The 7mm LED was selected because of its visual clarity.

Senior account manager, Roy Hunt worked closely with Okulus on the lighting and rigging specifications to ensure a smooth and perfectly executed tour.

The lighting package included 33 Martin MAC Auras. Okulus specified nine in a mid-stage truss and 24 on the floor. Eight of these were used to surroun

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UK - Utopium worked alongside lead contractor Richmond Event Management (REM) to help shine a spotlight on the Bristol Green Capital closing ceremony, as the city celebrated a successful year, February 2016.

As Bristol prepared to hand over its 'European Green Capital' title to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, residents gathered in Bristol's Colston Hall to reflect over the innovations in 2015 and consider the legacy of Green Capital 2015, hearing exciting plans for the year ahead.

REM contracted a range of local suppliers, including Utopium and Evans Audio Visual Staging, to help transform Colston Hall where this event took place.

Within the main Colston Hall auditorium, Utopium installed a truss system, which enabled drape reveals throughout the ceremony. Following the presentation, moving drapes revealed a procession of children with illuminated umbrellas, first

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USA - The ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas features a technologically advanced convention and event operation that each year hosts an extravagant New Year's Eve celebration. /I> winding down the proverbial rabbit hole so they reached out to PRG and Vickie Claiborne, lighting and digital media product specialist, for the lighting design. During the planning stages, she was asked to accentuate the interaction between the audience and the performers, so she chose the small yet powerfully creative Showline SL 300 BEAM FX LED luminaire from Philips Entertainment for the task.

"I've worked with ARIA on lighting designs for a wide variety of special events since its opening in 2009," began Claiborne. "I've always done ARIA's New Year's EvRinging in 2016 for VIP and invited guests, event producers wanted to take the night to Wonderland

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USA - A winter storm couldn't stop the prestigious 24th Annual Trumpet Awards which celebrates and honours African American achievers and those who support the African American experience.

, and honours accomplishments in diverse fields including law, medicine, business, politics, the Arts, civil rights, sports, entrepreneurship, entertainment and other careers.

Hosted by actress Nia Long and actor Mike Epps, the honourees of this year's Trumpet Awards included EVP and COO of General Motors Alicia Boler-Davis, Former Secretary of Labour Alexis M. Herman, Chancellor of Wayne Community College Dr. Curtis L. Ivery, HRH Princess Masmah Bint Saud, R&B singer Ne-Yo, film and television producer Will Packer and legendary actor George Wallace. TBandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event which took place 23 January at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centrehe African A

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