Flares to the fore on Bruno Mars tour
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“Flares are my go-to light,” says lighting designer, Cory FitzGerald. “I like to use them in pixel mode so that we can take full advantage of the wash/pixel features as well as the powerful strobe. We have 68 mounted in the stage facing up, to under-light the transparent floor “cells”; 70 are mounted vertically, end-to-end, as a single ‘bar’ downstage for our main audience effect lighting, with a further 76 hung throughout the rig and upstage from trusses, for stage strobing and more effects.”
FitzGerald adds, “Flares are incredibly versatile fixtures that continue to help me shape the musicality of the lighting in all my shows. The Flare’s pixelation, colour mixing, low level effects, and its enormous punch make it a very powerful multi-tool.”
Lighting director for the tour is Whitney Hoversten, LeRoy Bennett is production designer, and production manager is Joel Forman. The lighting package for the tour is provided by VER.
(Jim Evans)
