For Shania Twain’s ‘Queen of Me’ tour, Lighting Designer André Petrus worked with Production Designer Cory FitzGerald to carefully highlight the artist as she performs in an immersive environment packed with 3D animations. “She wanted to feel immersed in the content, so we carry an LED floor and LED I-Mag screens; the entire show feels totally enveloping,” Petrus says.
Given the importance of the I-Mag and animation, Petrus worked the lighting in around it, sprinkling in lighting “where we could. we have a lot of overhead lights that go right over the performance area with seven fingers of truss that are packed full of lights. Then surrounding the upstage wall, there’s ladders that encompass the whole design and just frame it out. She performs a lot of her songs on the LED floor, so she is literally immersed in the content completely. Around that LED floor, we have floor lights as well that just line everything, box things in.”
From “Production Spotlight” by Michael S. Eddy, PLSN, Oct. 2023, page 34
