White Light have been with the show from the very beginning, supplying David Hersey's complex and ambitious rig and then supporting and updating it through the years. The original rig included one of the earliest uses of the now-ubiquitous Rainbow scrollers along with 110 CCT Silhouettes, 80 PAR cans, 12 Reiche & Vogel beamlights and over 110 Coda floods of various types, as well as classic lanterns such as Patt 264s and Patt 23s used to dress the club scenes. Control for the rig was from the theatre's Galaxy 2 console for the length of the run.
Miss Saigon also saw the first use of a colour-changing version of the motorised light curtain earlier used on Les Misérables - an effect achieved using a then-newly developed Rainbow light curtain scroller. The original light curtains were upgraded over the years, with The Moving Light Company's Dave Isherwood devising a way of attaching a second, reversed motor to each line of light curtains to improve their movement. The light curtains were subsequently upgraded to DHA's Digital Light Curtains (developed for Miss Saigon in New York), but even then the original light curtains were kept and re-deployed to light the show's side-screens, a lighting effect originally omitted from the London production due to budgetary constraints but subsequently introduced on the other world-wide productions.
White Light is enormously proud to have been associated with this milestone British musical. The company continues to work with the show's producer, Cameron Mackintosh, on other shows (including the current UK tour of Les Misérables and the Canadian production of Oliver!), and looks forward to working together on new milestones in the future.
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