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White Light: First On Tour In 2006

By January 1st, White Light had already supplied its first new touring show of 2006: the musical Footloose, which began its UK tour at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff.

Produced by Mark Goucher, Michael Rose and Tristan Baker, Footloose is directed by Karen Bruce, designed by Morgan Large with lighting by James Whiteside.

White Light have supplied a rig that includes Martin MAC500 and MAC2000 Profiles, MAC600 Washlights and the increasingly popular Clay Paky Alpha Halo Washlights, as well as ETC Source Fours, Rainbow colour scrollers, PAR Cans, 5kW Fresnels, L&E battens, Coda-4 floods, Unique haze machines, and White Light’s fully-rated LOLER lighting ladders. The rig is fed from Avo touring dimmer racks, controlled by a Strand 520i console programmed by Rob Halliday. The show’s production electrician is Jeremy Duncan, with Simon Gooding the production manager.

The Footloose rig was prepared at White Light just before Christmas, then loaded in to Cardiff on January 1st ready for technical rehearsals that began on Tuesday January 2nd and then the show’s opening the following Friday.

The rig prep fitted in to a busy Christmas period at White Light which also saw the company supply the lighting for Christmas parties at the Honourable Artillery Company, Coram’s Fields and London Zoo, to corporate events at Kew Gardens and Kensington Roof Gardens, to a touring production of Sleeping Beauty On Ice, to numerous pantomimes around the UK, and to West End shows including Patrick Stewart’s production of A Christmas Carol.

Footloose joins the many other tours currently using equipment from White Light, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Edward Scissorhands and Miss Saigon, soon to take its rig to Portugal for a short season.

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12th January 2006

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