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Beauty and the Beast and Alcons
The latest theatre production of Joop van den Ende productions, Beauty & the Beast is amplified by an Alcons ribbon sound system.
The show needs no less than 14 trailers to be moved and is therefore the largest touring show of Van Den Ende productions so far and will visit the 13 largest Dutch theatres until June 2006. It is also the first time that Joop van den Ende Theater productions has made a touring show of a Disney-musical.
The sound design is by Jeroen ten Brinke, who already has already worked on many sound designs for successful musicals, including De Jantjes, Anatevka, Fame De Musical, 42nd Street, Rent, Saturday Night Fever, Titanic De Musical but was also involved in Cabaret, Les Misérables, The Phantom Of The Opera and Miss Saigon.
For the musical Beauty and the Beast, a co-production of Joop van den Ende Theater productions and Disney Theatrical Productions, he applied an Alcons ribbon sound system for the first time. The system consists of 28 Alcons LR14 ultra-compact ribbon line-array, four LR14B compact line-array bass, four BF302 bass system and 11 ALC4 controller-amplifiers, complete with SDP processing modules.
The configuration is as follows: six LR14 flown arrays left and right, with one LR14B above; three LR14 stacked array left and right with one LR14B under, 10 LR14 as centre-cluster and two BF302 subwoofer stacked left and right.
Jeroen ten Brinke said: “I had never heard of Alcons before, until I had a gig in the Pepsi Stage in Amsterdam. There I was surprised by the guts of the person who had prepared such small cabinets for a producer who likes “a fat sound”. When I started, I simply shut my mouth - so much coming from so little I had never experienced before!”
Brinke continues: “Later, while visiting Tom Back of Alcons Audio I immediately heard it again - those typical, wonderful “electrostatic” highs. In the conversation that we, Jeroen Bas, Igor Milosavljevic and I had with Tom, he seemed very cooperative and wasn’t even disturbed by my request for flying the centre-cluster horizontally, instead of vertically.
After having spoken to a number of people and Alcons users, such as Andrew Bruce of Autograph UK, we were convinced about our choice. That’s how it appeared on the list for Holland’s largest theatre tour Beauty and the Beast of Disney & Stage-Entertainment. Since the opening première in Royal Theater Carré Amsterdam on 25th September 2005, we’ve received a lot of positive reactions on the sound, including comment from Tom Schumacher, Walt Disney's executive vice president of Theatrical Productions: “I’ve never heard such a good sound in a theatre like this!”.”
Already during the première of the Dutch tour, preparations for launch of the production in Germany had started.
8th November 2005
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