Lighting Co
Upstaging
Venue
Various (Tour)
Crew
- Production & Lighting Designer: Mitchell Schellenger
- Lighting Director: David Marcucci
- Lighting Crew Chief: David George
- Lighting Techs: Eric Smith, Andrew Cimerman, Yoshiki Shinohara
- Production Manager: Andrew Crow
- Tour Manager: Jason Browning
- Stage Manager: Makoa Kahanamoku
- Road Manager: Eddie Gowan
- Staging Cos: Upstaging, Accurate Staging
- Upstaging Rep: John Bahnick
- Accurate Staging Rep: Tye Trussell
- Trucking: Upstaging
- Media Servers: Station Six Creative Productions
Gear
- 2 grandMA2 Full consoles w/6 NPUs
- 98 Ayrton Intellipix R fixtures
- 24 Ayrton MagicPanel 602s
- 26 Claypaky Mythos
- 18 Martin MAC Viper Profile
- 10 Martin MAC Viper AirFX
- 26 GLP impression X4 Wash
- 11 GLP impression X4 Bar 20s
- 15 TMB Solaris Flare Jrs
- 1 Station-Six/PRG Mbox media server setup
- 4 MDG hazers
- 2 High End Systems F-100 foggers
Designer Insights
“It was a pleasure working with Rob Thomas and his amazing team to create this touring show. This was a co-headline shed tour with Counting Crows, so we were faced with a number of challenges. The set had to change over very quickly and compete with the evening sun. I elected to use the Intellipix panels because of their brightness and large pixels. I wanted to create a city skyline effect that was our feature piece and could easily shine bright while the evening sun was still a factor. Using the MBox media server, we did an Art-Net merge at the MA2 to give us a number of creative capabilities with the 2,450 pixels we had to play with. The incredible crew in the Upstaging fabrication shop created custom frames to house the Intellipix so the set could be very modular and adjust as needed. I wanted to create something unique and different with this set. We needed to create contrast from the Counting Crows, and I think we did just that.”
—Mitchell Schellenger, production and lighting designer, as interviewed by Steve Jennings
More tour photos by Steve Jennings:
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