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New Equipment: Touring Now From White Light
For Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which opened late in 2005 in Sunderland, White Light supplied lighting designer Mark Henderson with thirty of the new Martin Mac700 spotlights, chosen for their bright, punchy output, colour mixing, variable beam and wide range of gobo options. The rest of the rig includes 34 Martin Mac600s washlights, 35 High End Studiobeams, ETC Source Fours, Rainbow colour scrollers, L&E battens, Cyrano followspots and Unique haze machines and Viper smoke machines, two of which have been adapted for use with the Le Maitre LSG low smoke processor. Control is form a Whole Hog 2 with two Overdrive boxes, a Hog unit as backup and two ELC Sidekicks as DMX wings. The Hog is programmed by associate lighting designer and lighting programmer Stuart Porter, while the show’s production electrician is Fraser Hall. Richard Bullimore is production manager for the tour. The tour continues White Light’s involvement with the show, which used White Light equipment during its long run at the London Palladium.
For Edward Scissorhands, the new ballet adapted from the Tim Burton film, lighting designer Howard Harrison was faced with a challenging series of panels made of back-projection material surrounding the set and requiring lighting. The final solution uses twelve Clay Paky Colour 400 colour-changing floodlights to light these cloths, these units newly purchased for the show by White Light. The rest of the rig includes sixteen Vari-Lite VL2000 Spots and sixteen VL2000 Washes, one Vari-Lite VL3000, nine VL1000TSs, 24 martin Mac600s, two Digital Light Curtains, ETC Source Fours, six 90˚ Selecon Pacifics, High End Dataflash strobes, Rainbow colour scrollers and nine White Light VSFX effects projectors. The show is also using sixteen of the new White Light Snow machines. The entire rig is controlled from a Strand 520i console programmed by Vic Smerdon, the show’s production electrician is Andy Murrel, and the production managers are Simon Byford and Ed Wilson.
The new equipment for these tours is also now available from White Light’s hire stock, with the Mac700s already being used by other shows including the pantomime Aladdin at the Old Vic, lit by David Hersey. The shows join other touring shows using White Light’s equipment, including Miss Saigon, Footloose, Sleeping Beauty On Ice and others, as well as many productions in the West End and around the UK.
30th January 2006
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