USA - Bandit Lites recently finished a lighting installation at the newly opened Randy Parton Theatre. The North Carolina theatre features Randy Parton,brother of country music megastar Dolly Parton, in a live music variety show. In addition to Parton, the venue will showcase a variety of entertainers.

The Randy Parton Theatre is a 1,500-seat show palace with state-of-the-art sound, lighting and video. Bandit sales and design associate, Chris Barbee was hired to be the lighting and rigging system designer and project manager for the permanent installation.

Barbee chose to use six High End Systems DL2s, 16 Martin MAC 700s, 18 Martin MAC 600s, six High End Studio Command 700s, 80 Source 4 Lekos, 100 Source Four PARS and 100 PAR 64 fixtures. 50 Chauvet COLORrado1s were added as truss and set toners as well as eight Chauvet COLORado3s. The lighting package was finished off with 150 Color Kinetics iColor coves (used for a plexiglass scenic floor piece downstage centre).

Lighting was programmed on a full size Grand MA, but is operated by a Grand MA Lite.

(Jim Evans)


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