White Light Look Beyond PLASA '99 To A Busy Autumn
New touring shows prepare to join old favourites already using White Light equipment on the road - in the UK and abroad!
| Even as visitors enjoy the hospitality of White Light's stand (stand F4) at the 1999 PLASA Show, the company's staff back-at-base will be rushing to prepare the rigs for four new touring productions which set off around Britain this autumn.
Fortunately, they will be helped by the fact that White Light and their specialist automated lighting division The Moving Light Company are already familiar with all of the shows! Soul Train is currently enjoying a successful run at the Victoria Palace Theatre, with lighting designer Chris Ellis making use of MAC500s and MAC600s. Smokey Joe's Cafe is touring for the second time and is once again lit by Michael Odam. Return to the Forbidden Planet is an old favourite, though it now features a newly-updated rig by Chris Jaeger that includes the 'baby' MAC250 spotlights alongside eight MAC500s and two MAC600s. And The Rocky Horror Show is the latest incarnation of the first show White Light ever supplied way back in 1971, though it also now tours automated lighting in a rig designed by Michael Odam. Two other shows returned to the touring circuit shortly before PLASA '99 - An Inspector Calls and Swan Lake, both lit by Rick Fisher with the Inspector Calls rig supplied from London and the Swan Lake rig from White Light North in Yorkshire. And these shows join White Light's other ongoing tours, including Jesus Christ Superstar (lighting by Mark McCulloch), Les Miserables (lighting by David Hersey) and Oliver! (lighting by David Hersey), which is soon to set off to Toronto for its final touring date. Tight schedules in Toronto mean that Oliver! will continue to use the UK touring rig (which includes PAL1200s, MAC500s, StudioColors, Amptown Washlights and Irideon AR5s), with White Light and The Moving Light Company working to adapt the equipment for 110V/60Hz operation prior to it leaving the country. |