The Dutch production of the show, which will open at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht in November, is the tenth production of Mamma Mia - others are still running in London, New York, Canada, Australia, on tour in the US, in Las Vegas, in Germany and in Japan. For Holland, lighting designer Howard Harrison and his associate, David Holmes, have refined their rig design to make use of some of the latest lighting equipment. White Light will be supplying two hundred ETC Source Four profile spots, 170 Source Four Pars, 46 MR16 groundrows, 102 Wybron scrollers, 34 DHA double gobo rotators and four Robert Juliat Aramis followspots. Other effects include Look Solutions Viper NT smoke machines, MDG Atmosphere haze machines and Le Maitre LSG low smoke machines.
The moving light rig from The Moving Light Company includes twenty DHA Digital Light Curtains, two Vari-Lite VL1000s, forty-four VL2000s, two Martin Mac2000 Performances and eighteen Vari-Lite VL5s, these units added to MLC’s hire stock for this production. The moving light rig will be controlled from a Vari-Lite Virtuoso DX console, with the conventional lighting run from a GrandMA - the two consoles linked via MIDI for show running.
Mamma Mia, which tells the story of a girl’s search for her father through 22 of Swedish supergroup ABBA’s most famous songs, has been selling out around the world since 1999. White Light has been involved with the show since that first production, for which it supplied the dimmers for the show‘s spectacular neon floor.
Further information about Mamma Mia can be found at the show’s website, www.mamma-mia.com. Further information about White Light and The Moving Light Company, including details of the shows using White Light equipment in London and on tour, can be found here on this website.