Lighting Co
LMG
Venue
Various (Tour)
Crew
Production Design: Butch Allen, Lindsey Stirling
Lighting Director: Andrew Nissley
Tour Manager: Erich Jackson
Production Manager: Rob McWhorter
Stage Techs: Corey Cresswell, Charlie Strength, Clay Barnum
LMG Rep: Craig Mitchell
Video Co: LMG
Staging Co: Gallagher Staging
Gear
2 grandMA2 Full consoles
32 Martin MAC Auras
8 Vari*Lite VL2500 Spots
4 Showline SL Nitro 510 LED strobes
2 Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlaze 48s
61 LMG Omega 8mm video tiles
2 Ultratec Special Effects Radiance hazers
Designer Insights by Steve Jennings:
Butch Allen
Production Designer
“I was brought into this tour after Lindsey and her manager Adina had seen the show I designed for Paramore’s tour. They enjoyed it so after that they contacted me and we were off and running.
“Lindsey is not only the musical heart of her show but she is the driving force, visually. We went through many different designs during the process of creating the show and ultimately settled on an idea that came straight from her heart.
“Lighting director Andrew Nissley was brought in. His work with Skrillex interested Lindsey and ultimately he was the man. His show blew my mind. Not only does he have a very strong grasp of technology, but his artistic sensibilities were dead on. It’s a beautiful looking show — theatrical, and very tightly cued.
“This show is a great example of using everything very cleverly. It’s a very small
crew, a one-truck tour but it looks big ! My favorite shows are the ones that see no limitations just because they don’t have 10 trucks of gear. Lindsey and her team saw only opportunity.
“They have grasped the moment and made an exciting, intelligent, sensory experience that I am very proud of and humbled to have played a small role in. The tour staff put this together with Lindsey and though small in numbers bring a show that is on a par with any size show out there. Cheers to them! Look out world, Lindsey is a creative force to be reckoned with.”
Andrew Nissley
Lighting Director
“I’m running the show on a grandMA 2 console. I programmed the show and chose this console because it’s the one I know best. All the programming was done having only ever talked to Butch (Allen) on the phone beforehand in conference calls, and while getting content via email and dropbox. Thankfully we did have a solid eight days of rehearsal time, four of which were just me sitting in a haze box pushing buttons.
“We’re using Vari*Lite VL2500 Spots and Martin MAC Aura fixtures as our main gear. This round, it was budget mostly. We had beam fixtures in the initial drawings, but through scaling down, I wound up with color mixing on the entire show instead. For their age, the VLs look great, and I don’t think I’ve had an Aura die on me in three to four years of using them.
“The UV light and neon outfits, kabuki shadow intro, the fans in “Take Flight” and a lot of other specific things were all Lindsey’s ideas that just came about during rehearsals. As with the design, she has a very clear vision of what she wants her show to be.
“This might mark the first time an artist has called me personally before getting a gig, and it kind of sums up the attitude of the whole thing; it’s been one of the best tours I’ve done, everyone helps everyone out instead of pulling the ‘not my job’ card. Craig Mitchell and everyone else at LMG, our lighting and video vendor, have always been great to work with, as well as our production crew.”
More Steve Jennings photos of Lindsey Stirling’s 2014 “Shatter Me” tour at www.plsn.me/Stirling2014.
