Two West End Shows In One Week (-and Another A Week Later) for White Light
White Light supply the lighting to the new West End productions of Lenny, I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change, and Forbidden Broadway.

Lenny at the Queens Theatre Lenny on stage I Love You, You're Perfect... Forbidden Broadway

White Light's busy summer season continued when the company supplied the lighting rigs to two new West End shows in the same week at the end of July - and then to a third new show before the end of the month. At the Queens Theatre, Rick Fisher - recently returned from lighting the new Disney musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Berlin - designed the lighting for Lenny, a play charting the life and career of American comedian Lenny Bruce. Adapted from the Oscar-winning film starring Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall's new production stars acclaimed comedian Eddie Izzard in the title role. Fisher faced the dilemma of lighting a multitude of tightly-contained scenes within a set consisting almost entirely of mirrors! To help him, he based his rig around a core of automated fixtures: nine Martin MAC500 spotlights and nine MAC600 washlights supplied by The Moving Light Company, White Light's specialist automated lighting division. To help keep flare off the mirrors, the MAC600s were fitted with MLCo's custom spill rings, originally created for Doctor Dolittle. The rest of the rig includes a variety of lanterns, with one lighting bar featuring vintage Strand Patt 23s nestling between ETC Source Fours and the MACs! The control for the entire rig and for two Pani BP4 projectors with AMD-32 slide changers, supplied by Production Arts, is from a Strand 520 lighting console programmed by Rob Halliday, with Tony Simpson as the show's Production Electrician. At the same time, the American musical I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change was fitting up at the Comedy Theatre after a pre-London run at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley. The set and lighting are both designed by Neil Peter Jampolis. Jampolis takes a lower-tech approach to this intimate musical, with the rig consisting mainly of ETC Source Fours with just a few Rainbow colour scrollers to provide the range of colours required. The show is the first to use the Comedy Theatre's new Strand 520 lighting console, recently supplied to them by White Light's sales department, though Jampolis is running the versatile console in the LightPalette mode most familiar to him rather than the GeniusPro mode most normally used in the UK. The show's Production Electrician is Chris Nichols and Richard Bullimore its Production Manager. White Light and The Moving Light Company's final new West End show for July is the legendary New York hit Forbidden Broadway, transferring to the Albery Theatre after its recent run at the Jermyn Street Theatre. The show is a revue which successfully sends up many of the biggest musicals in the world, including Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Rent and Chicago - the original versions of which also use lighting equipment from White Light. The lighting for Forbidden Broadway is being designed by David Howe, once again making use of the popular MAC500 and 600 automated fixtures with the rig controlled from the Albery's new Strand 520 console, again recently supplied by White Light's sales department. Rob Halliday is serving as Howe's programmer, with John Harris the show's Production Electrician. July 1999 News News Page Home Page