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Eight years on from his death in 1998 "Ol' Blue Eyes" is back on stage and larger than life with the London Palladium currently presenting the stunning musical celebrating the life and career of the legendary entertainer. More than 3.5 million euros has been spent on state-of-the-art technologies to get the show on stage, and to control the multiple video installations the desks of choice were grandMA multimedia consoles.
To allow Sinatra to ‘duet’ with live singers, a 24-piece orchestra playing his music live and accompanied by numerous dancers, large-scale projections on the back drop and on moveable LED screens were used. The video content is a combination of digitally reconstructed 35mm private film footage from the fifties and film clips of Sinatra in concert. Nancy Sinatra gave the permission to use these films and supported the production with previously unreleased material from their archives. Director David Leveaux has created a dynamic show merging and synchronising the live actgion with virtual imagery.
A grandMA full-size multimedia console rented from supplier Neg Earth executed the cues for the media server, receiving a MIDI time code from the audio desk at front of house. The lighting design was created by Andrew Bridge and Tom Pye developed the set design.
21st April 2006
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