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Legendary Midas Sound for Carousel with Pro Show
Pro Show Rentals in Vancouver has recently taken delivery of a Midas Legend 3000 supplied by Kulas Marketing, Midas's rep in Western Canada, in order to handle their increasingly demanding workload of musicals. The board just wrapped up a four-week run of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Carousel, at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster, and the Bell Centre for the Performing Arts in Surrey, BC.
Pro Show's Tim Lang is delighted with the new purchase. "I have to say, I love this console," he said. "I've been using it on Carousel, which is an extremely demanding show, for the last month and it is definitely a great board. I am making heavy use of the automation system (250+ cues), not only for mute on/off, but also for a lot of VCA re-assigns, aux on/off for various effects and MIDI program commands to drive all the effects and the submix console. Carousel has a full 26 piece orchestra, 20+ wireless lavaliers, 7 stage mics and various effect units, plus the main speaker system which is comprised of 8 x EAW KF650 and 8 x EV SX300, and the Legend 3000 is at the hub of it all. Not only does it have to have the capacity to handle everything we demand of it, but it has to sound good too. I'm pleased to say that it's done a fantastic job of everything so far."
Tim explained that Carousel is fairly typical of the musicals handled by Pro Show, and therefore of the type of show for which the Legend 3000 was purchased. "Carousel marks our 12th consecutive year handling the sound for the annual 'Royal City Musical Theatre' productions. Earlier this year, we used our Legend 3000 on Threepenny Opera for the Vancouver Opera at the QE Theatre in March The next major musical for our Legend 3000 will be 'Crazy for You' and 'Footloose', performed at 'Theatre Under the Stars', at the 2000 seat open-air Malkin Bown in Vancouver's Stanley Park in July and August."
As well as working on musicals, Pro Show Rentals recently put their Legend to use as the FoH console for the massive S.U.C.C.E.S.S. fundraising gala at GM Place stadium in Vancouver earlier this year. S.U.C.C.E.S.S. consists of an elaborate banquet for over 800 guests followed by a variety show produced by Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) of Hong Kong. With a live audience of over 12,000 and television viewing figures in the millions, the annual S.U.C.C.E.S.S. gala is the largest Chinese concert held in North America.
"Obviously we will use the Legend for more traditional concert/corporate applications outside of the musical season," continued Tim, "but it was purchased primarily as a better board for us to use on musicals, and I can't tell you how happy we are with it. Respect to Midas for really hitting the nail on the head with this desk!"
5th May 2004
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