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...]
The force is with ETC
ETC's revolutionary moving light, the Source Four Revolution, has been enjoying a short run at New York's Broadhurst Theatre, where lead actor Jude Law decided it looks like a Star Wars character! Programmer Rob Halliday says: "The fixtures were only a short distance above Jude's head, and when they were in the reset position, pointing straight down, he thought he was going to bump his head on … [Read more...]
New French Revolutions for the Paris Opéra Garnier
Pascal Boulanger, lighting chief at Paris’s Ope´ra Garnier, is, like many theatre technicians, a man with an increasing number of jobs to do and fewer people to help him. Successive pieces of employment legislation have seriously affected the French lighting industry; chief among them are restrictions on night working and a new 35 hour working week. So Boulanger decided that quiet, reliable and … [Read more...]
