For Beyonce’s Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, production and lighting designer Roy Bennett noted that, in the initial meeting with the artist, “we came up with the concept that the show would be lighting-based vs. being video-heavy, as in the past. I came up with the idea of making a wall of light that consisted mostly of mirrors on moving yokes (based on the old Vari-Lite VLM) and SGM strobes. The mirrors have two different surfaces. One side is flat, and the other is a faceted convex mirror-ball-type surface. Her show has two different stages. There’s the main stage, and then Beyoncé is flown over the audience and lands at the B-stage, the idea based on allowing her to have a place to perform out in the audience as so many performers like these days. The stage is behind the FOH position [and] has ramps and walkways with VIP audience members enclosed. It’s almost as big as most artists’ main stage. Most of the lighting for the B-stage was floor-based and bounced off of the moving mirrors overhead.”
— From “Designer Insights” by Steve Jennings, PLSN, March 2014
