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MA Lighting with The Producers in Vienna
With its Broadway start 2001 ‘The Producers' was highly acclaimed by the critics. This triumph became manifested in 12 Tony Awards, scores of further honours and numerous international shows. Mel Brooks was responsible for its production. He based the musical on the cult movie of 1968. Now the story about a producer and his accountant, who want to stage the worst show of all times, but end up having a major hit, has reached the Austrian capital Vienna. Since June 30th every evening there is a whiff of Broadway in the recently refurbished Ronacher theatre. Simultaneously, the show in Vienna is the first German-language version of the musical.
Pia Virolainen created the lighting design for the musical which is controlled by a grandMA system consisting of two grandMA full-size, two MA NSPs, two grandMA remotes and eight MA 2Port Nodes. Twenty-six Vari*Lite VL3000Q spots, 12 VL35000Q spots, six VL3000Q washes, 185 ETC Source Fours and 122 Rainbow colour changers, equipped with Rosco gels, form the main basis of the large lighting rig.
Programmer Philipp Herbst reports on the installation: "Crucial for the specification of the grandMA was its widespread use in the musical business, its reliability and the second to none support of MA Lighting. For me as a programmer its networking capabilities and the multi-user functionality were extremely useful. We worked on several consoles at the same time. When I was programming with the lighting designer other lighting technicians could familiarise with the system, test lights from the console or from a laptop via grandMA remote. During rehearsals the operator controlled the show following the cues from the stage manager. Meanwhile I could still focus on the programming, timing and moods and if necessary do some changes without listening the whole time to the stage manager."
Zeiler-Technik, Germany, and LDDE Vertriebs GmbH, Austria, delivered the lighting equipment and realised the installation.
Photo: Vereinigte Bühnen Wien / Oliver Hadji
15th August 2008
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