Billy Elliot, the musical which has become a runaway success in London, Sydney and New York, is set to go worldwide this year, with shows in Korea and Chicago already agreed. By the end of 2010 there will also be a touring production moving to a different US city every three or four weeks. Until now, productions have always included set pieces which revolve and emerge through trap doors, … [Read more...]
ETC plans for Prolight + Sound
ETC is getting ready to exhibit at this year's Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt. The lighting, control and dimming manufacturer's latest additions to the Selador Series of LED fixtures will be taking centre stage. Tuned to provide colours in either the warm or cool side of the spectrum, Vivid Fire and Ice offer colour brightness levels that rival or surpass the outputs of tungsten lighting … [Read more...]
White Light supplies “Love Never Dies”
White Light has been appointed to supply the lighting to Love Never Dies, the long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash-hit musical The Phantom of the Opera. Since its 1986 début at London’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, where it continues to play, The Phantom of the Opera has been seen in more than 25 countries and by more than 100 million people. Love Never Dies … [Read more...]
New lighting control for the Theatre Royal
The Installation team of leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light has recently completed a busy six week period updating the lighting control and dimming systems at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal. Like many other British touring theatres, the Theatre Royal has opted for ETC’s award-winning Eos control system, coupled with ETC Sensor dimming, to replace their previous Strand systems. … [Read more...]
BRIT School students finalise their year with an ETC Eos
Students at south London's BRIT School's technical theatre course need to learn on a lighting control desk which will be able to handle the most complex, multi media filled rigs, yet simple enough to get to grips with as part of their course. And, of course, it needs to be one which they might go on to use when they start working professionally. So when Andrew Smith, the school's technical … [Read more...]
