Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
A grandMA full-size console was used to programme the new UK tour of Never Forget The Musical, a hugely popular show featuring the music of UK pop super group Take That, produced by Tristan Baker, Charlie Parsons, Bronia Buchanan and Jason Haigh-Ellery. The lighting design has been created by James Whiteside, and the show was [...]
A grandMA full-size is controlling moving lights and LED elements for the latest musical sensation to hit London’s West End “Sister Act”, a new musical comedy based on the smash hit musical starring Whoopi Goldberg. The show, produced by Stage Entertainment and Whoopi Goldberg, has just opened at the London Palladium. Natasha Katz is the [...]
Katherine Jenkins performed a special one off concert in front of a packed Birmingham NIA on Saturday evening, as part of the opening celebrations of the 100th Rotary International Conference. Together with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the international mezzo-soprano delighted the audience with a selection of classic arias, tracks from her new album [...]
Kensington Gardens in London was a favourite haunt of author J M Barrie, and provided much of the inspiration for his most popular work, the story of the boy who never grew up, Peter Pan. Now the park is playing host to a spectacular new theatrical telling of that story in a newly created 1000-seat [...]
Lighting Designer Steven Douglas is using grandMA lighting control for the first time on the current Killers “Day & Age” world tour, which has just completed it’s first US, UK and European legs. He had two grandMA full-size consoles – one in tracking backup – and four MA NSPs running over Ethernet, controlling 9 real [...]
The spectacular new musical production of Oscar winning Australian movie “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert” hits London’s West end in style and gorgeousness at the Palace Theatre, together with a grandMA full-size console controlling the moving lighting rig. The show’s lighting design has been created by Nick Schlieper, and the stage adaptation, [...]
The UK tour of Strictly Come Dancing Live – the arena version of the hugely popular BBC TV series – has all its lighting controlled by a grandMA full-size console for the first time. The lighting design is by Mark Kenyon (also for the TV show) and the show was initially programmed by David Bishop [...]
