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Ciske Finds His Way with Alcons!
With 50,000 tickets sold in the first few days after the premiere, visited by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands, Ciske de Rat - the Musical already scored its first record. The critics praised the production unanimously. Now, over six months underway and running, with around 400,000 tickets sold, it is the most successful travelling Dutch musical ever.
Not surprising then that this musical scored seven awards out of the 13 nominations at the recent Musical Awards Gala 2008. Another record.
The musical, based on three books written by Piet Bakker in the forties, tells the story of the Amsterdam street rascal Ciske, having difficulty in finding his way in life in the thirties. The lead role is played by Danny de Munk, who also played the renowned character in the successful movie in 1984.
The sound design for Ciske the Musical was in the hands of Jeroen ten Brinke. After having already successfully deployed Alcons pro-ribbon systems in earlier musicals such as Beauty & the Beast, Rembrandt and The Wiz, Jeroen again designed a configuration on basis of Alcons sound systems, this time with LR14 ultra-compact line-array.
The sound system, with as a particular characteristic a centrally flown left/right array for better imaging, consists of two arrays of each 12 units LR14 ultra-compact line-array (two 6.5 + RBN401 Pro-Ribbon) and one LR14B (2x 12 bandpass) line-array bass for the rear half of the ground floor and balconies. For the front half of the ground floor per side four LR14s and one LR14B are stacked. Two BF302s (double 15 bass system) act as a separately sent bass system.
In picture: Ciske de Rat stage with Alcons pro-ribbon sound system.
23rd June 2008
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