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Stage Electrics And Mary Poppins Join Forces For Forthcoming Production
Stage Electrics has been selected as lighting supplier for the new musical Mary Poppins. Jointly produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, Mary Poppins plays its world premiere at the Bristol Hippodrome on 28th September before transferring to London’s Prince Edward Theatre in December.
Mary Poppins the musical is based on the book by PL Travers, later made famous by the Walt Disney film. The theatre version is production managed by Simon Robertson from Cameron Mackintosh and Nic Harris From Disney. The production electrician is Fraser Hall with Rob Halliday programming the Strand control system.
Lit by Howard Harrison, the moving light rig consists of 65 Vari*Lite fixtures made up of VL2000 spots, VL2000 washes, VL3000Qs and VL5Bs. In addition to this, nearly 40 of the brand new ETC Revolution moving heads have been specified alongside two Martin MAC 2000 Performance units where remote shuttering is required. The Generic rig consists largely of ETC Source 4 profiles in varying beam angles. Also specified are Martin Atomic 3000W strobes, 50 x LDDE Spectra connect colour mixing fluorescent tube systems, DHA digital light curtains and over 130 Rainbow Pro colour scrollers all controlled via a Strand 520 with 510 tracking backup. Stage Electrics own DMX splitters have been utilised to distribute the data along with Avolites new DMX over Ethernet wireless nodes.
Chris Patton, business development manager for Stage Electrics who has worked closely with the project said: “This is a fantastic production to be involved in, Mary Poppins is a name that everyone has grown up with, we are all looking forward to seeing the finished show.”
27th July 2004
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