Even within that comprehensive stock there might not always be the perfect unit for a particular job - but The Moving Light Company are happy to carry out custom modifications to units to produce the desired results, if required. For the musical Doctor Dolittle (lighting by Hugh Vanstone), The Moving Light Company developed new spill rings for the Martin MAC600 washlights to prevent flare from those units catching the shows light-coloured masking. Those spill rings have subsequently proved popular with other lighting designers and are currently in use on Lenny at the Queens Theatre (lighting by Rick Fisher) where nine MAC600s and nine MAC500s have the challenge of lighting the performers while missing the mirrored set!.
The Moving Light Company are also currently working to adapt a set of Martin PAL1200s to a wide-angle lens following a request from lighting designer Tim Mitchell, who wanted to switch to the units for the London production of The Pajama Game after trying other makes of moving light on the showÕs runs in Birmingham and Toronto. The production will also feature MAC600s and MAC500s, with these units also currently out on Forbidden Broadway (Albery Theatre, lighting by David Howe), Oliver! (UK tour, lighting by David Hersey) and soon to go out on Return to the Forbidden Planet (UK tour, lighting by Chris Jaeger) and The Rocky Horror Show (UK tour, lighting by Michael Odam).
The Moving Light Company - the specialist automated lighting division of the White Light Group - are enjoying a busy summer/autumn spell, with lighting designers appreciating the company's friendly service as well as the ability to choose the best units for their show from the company's diverse stock of over seven hundred moving lights.
The MACs, along with other units from the Moving Light Company's stock, will also be on show on the White Light stand (stand F4) at the 1999 PLASA Show, running from 5th-8th September at Earls Court. Here the Moving Light Company will also be showing the latest addition to their stock: the City Theatrical AutoYoke, which adds movement, remote focus, remote iris and, if required, a colour scroller to the popular ETC Source Four range - creating a full-featured, tungsten moving light that should prove popular with many UK lighting designers. The AutoYoke has already been selected by the Royal Opera House as the core of their new lighting rig; the Moving Light Company are supplying that rig and will also have the units available for hire after the PLASA Show.
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