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From Broadway to West End with grandMA

On Broadway, the runaway hit ‘Avenue Q’ has already won the Tony award for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. If this wasn’t accolade enough, its lighting designer, Howell Binkley, this year scooped the prestigious Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for the musical ‘Jersey Boys’. Both musicals were programmed using grandMA.

Lighting designer Ken Posner for the Broadway musicals ‘Hairspray’ and Wicked has also used grandMA control systems. Now, with Sinatra and Avenue Q already running on grandMA in the West End, Wicked is the next to move over from Broadway to the West End, scheduled to open on the 27th September. Interestingly, the Apollo Victoria Theatre, home to Wicked, already has a fixed installation of a grandMA ultra light controlling their LED house-light system.

Binkley says that he’s very grateful for all the help and support MA has given to Avenue Q from the beginning, and both designers used Hillary Knox as the programmer for their shows. His control choices for Avenue Q were a grandMA full-size for programming, a grandMA Light for show playback and a grandMA replay unit as backup. They controlled the moving lights, LEDs, Video and conventional lights. After the production period only the grandMA light was used with the replay unit working as the backup.

Avenue Q has been on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre since July 31, 2003 . It’s the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate, who comes to New York with big dreams and a tiny bank account. But he soon discovers that the only place where he can live is Avenue Q. In his neighborhood he has to deal with the difficulties of life. That’s the introduction to the story where all but three characters are portrayed by puppets.

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From Broadway to West End with grandMA

29th August 2006

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