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A Priceless Story on Stage: "Alvaro's Balcony" Acts Out with grandMA
The story of Alvaro's Balcony reminds of some real life events concerning an American actress and a small sovereign city-state located in Western Europe: 1928 - The world is enthralled by Constance Nielsen, an American debutante who marries into one of Europe's ancient Royal Families, and in doing so single-handedly puts the tiny Alpine principality of Centoluci on the map. News of her tragic death some year's and an affair later turns her from living legend into timeless icon. 44 years later a woman claiming to be Princess Constance emerges, very much alive, with a priceless story to tell. So much for story-telling. What's fact is that a grandMA light and a grandMA video media server are used for lighting control of the show in London's Landor Theatre.
Associate lighting designer Jonny Milmer said: "There's never enough time to programme a show of this scale and having two desks connected with different users really helped! I was able to program the show on the grandMA full-size as the cast rehearsed with Martin (Terry) playing back the show on the grandMA light to keep us in the correct lighting cue." Technical manager Martin Terry continued: "It's nice to be able to focus on the cue points in the script and music and practice these during rehearsals without having to also worry about cue modifications that were done on a grandMA full-size console which was only used during rehearsals."
"Having such a flexible system meant that I could have my laptop displaying a cue list which showed me exactly all the information I wanted and allowed for much easier communication with the lighting team," stressed director Robert McWhir. Production manager Andrew Tottle added: "grandMA video was so easy to integrate into the production. I'm not a video engineer and not many productions nor many theatres have one so for us grandMA video was a great solution. Easy programming and access via the console is needed and it was so simple to copy images to the MA mediaPC. The console then browsed the PC and we could add the images into the show."
Richard Lambert was the lighting designer. Entec Sound and Light delivered the lighting equipment.
7th November 2008
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