White Light and The Moving Light Company To Supply Light to "Doctor Dolittle"
White Light and The Moving Light Company awarded the contract to supply the conventional and automated lighting equipment to Doctor Dolittle" at the Labatt’s Apollo, Hammersmith
White Light and The Moving Light Company have been selected to supply the production lighting equipment to Apollo Leisure’s new blockbuster musical Doctor Dolittle. The production, starring Philip Schofield along with a cast of animals from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, will open at the Labatt’s Apollo, Hammersmith, on July 14th.
Re-uniting director Steven Pimlott and designer Mark Thompson, the team behind the hit production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Doctor Dolittle will be lit by Hugh Vanstone, who was associate lighting designer on Joseph. Vanstone’s rig design makes use of just about every current item of theatre lighting technology. The conventional rig includes around 220 ETC Source 4s, 12 ETC Source 4 Pars, 12 Strand Alto 8/16s, 24 Strand Cantatas, 136 PAR cans 4 Toccatta Effect Projectors with White Light VSFX animation units, 40 birdies, 12 Dataflash and 72 scrollers. The rig will be controlled from LD90 and Avo dimmer racks, and run from a Strand Light Palette 90 console. White Light will also supply two Robert Juliat Aramis and two ColorArc followspots to the show.
The automated rig, supplied by The Moving Light Company, will include 16 Martin MAC500 spotlights, 29 MAC600 washlights, 4 PAL1200 framing spotlights, 6 High End Cyberlights and 20 DHA Digital Light Curtains, some rigged sideways on booms. The automated lighting rig will be run from a WholeHog II console, programmed by Richard Knight. Vanstone’s assistant for the production is David Howe, while the show’s production manager is John Holden.
Doctor Dolittle continues the hectic pace that 1998 has seen at White Light; the company have already provided equipment to the new musicals Saturday Night Fever (LD: Andrew Bridge), Rent (LD: Blake Burba) and the latest arrival in theWest End, the Bob Fosse musical Sweet Charity (LD: Mark Jonathan). This joins the hit production of Fosse’s Chicago (LD: Ken Billington), also lit using White Light equipment.
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