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Issued: 1st June 2001

And The Express Rolls On...
The Moving Light Company helps to update the classic musical Starlight Express

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It's never to late to add to a show! So seems to be the thinking of the team behind Starlight Express, now in its seventeenth year at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre. After adding High End Intellabeams back in 1993, lighting designer David Hersey and the show's original production electrician, Howard Eaton, returned this year to update the lighting rig once again.

This time they opted to replace the Intellabeams with equipment from Martin Professional. The Moving Light Company were called upon to supply the production with 24 Martin Mac500s and three of the new Mac2000 units. In addition, they supplied two DHA Pitching Digital Light Curtains, which provide a dramatic new way of lighting the spectacular bridge which forms the centrepiece of John Napier's set design.

The changes to the lighting rig were made in a tight ten day period when the production closed temporarily to allow the auditorium to be re-carpeted and re-seated, during which time Eaton and his team also took the opportunity to upgrade the dimmers and lighting control system, with the rig now controlled by the Rosco-ET Horizon lighting controller. Horizon programming was in the hands of Robert Bell, creator of the WYSIWYG lighting visualisation software and now Horizon's product manager, who worked with David Hersey and Howard Eaton to relight the show using the new equipment in a very hectic final three days!

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