02/27/98 07:34

White Light and Moving Light Company Get Night Fever...

White Light and The Moving Light Company win contract to supply both conventional and automated lighting to the new West End production of Saturday Night Fever

White Light has been awarded the contract to supply the lighting rig to the new musical production of Saturday Night Fever, which opens at the London Palladium on May 5th. The company’s specialist moving light division, The Moving Light Company, will supply the productions complex automated lighting system.

Designed by Andrew Bridge, who has won Tony awards for his work on shows such as The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard, the lighting rig is based around a core of automated units from Martin Professional: 31 MAC500 spotlights and 28 MAC600 washlights. The MAC units have been in the Moving Light Company’s stock since October 1997 and have already been successfully used on productions as diverse as fashion shows and the new Stanley Kubrick film. For Saturday Night Fever, the automated lanterns will be controlled from a Whole Hog II console, programmed by Stuart Porter.

The automated rig is complemented by a conventional rig containing around 200 ETC Source 4 profiles, 47 PAR cans and 37 Strand Cantata Fresnels along with 60 Rainbow colour scrollers. The show will also be creating special effects using 6 High End Dataflash strobes, 4 UV lanterns and 10 ETC Source 4 PARS, to be used with White Light VSFX disks as effects projectors. The rig installation is being masterminded by Production Electrician Gerry Amies, Associate Lighting Designer Alistair Grant and Moving Light Technician Chris Dunford. The show’s production manager is Richard Bullimore.

Saturday Night Fever continues White Light’s long association with the London Palladium, to which they supplied the rig for the record-breaking musical Oliver!. The show falls in the middle of a busy season for White Light and The Moving Light Company, who are also supplying equipment to the Olivier-award winning production of Closer at the Lyric Theatre, the Peter Hall Season at the Piccadilly Theatre, and the new Dame Edna show on tour and then at the Haymarket Theatre.


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