Forget your troubles—come on, get happy! Take a trip to Connecticut where Goodspeed Musicals takes an opera house, turns it into a barn that turns into a theater for the world premiere of Summer Stock. Designers Jeff Croiter and Wilson Chin tells us how they fit it all, and a full company of tap dancers, on a small stage.
Kevin Lawson puts the PRG 5L Wash through its paces (and provides the intriguing back story about this light).
Kevin Lawson’s report on Claypaky’s Tambora Flash Static Hybrid Strobe/Blinder
Debi Moen catches us up with the industry whereabouts; and highlights some designers celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop, as well as lessons on taking it easy with Jackson Browne.
With years of experience behind a console—and having cleaned up a lot of showfiles—Chris Lose discusses hard values and how they can play weird tricks with your programming.
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Music Matters Productions
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State Farm Arena
Atlanta, GA
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4Wall Entertainment
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BMO Stadium
Los Angeles, CA
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Bandit Lites
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Tour
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Brown Note Productions, Inc.
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Historic Crew Stadium
Columbus, OH
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Matrix Visual
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Caesars Superdome
New Orleans, LA
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Freeman AV
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Lucas Oil Stadium
Indianapolis, IN
While laying out the stories in this month’s edition of PLSN, editor Michael S. Eddy noticed a theme running through many of them, that of going big, scaling up productions, but with a very specific purpose.