The show requires 14 trailers to transport and will take in the thirteen largest Dutch theatres until June 2006. Sound design is by Jeroen ten Brinke, who has worked on many top musicals including 42nd Street, Rent, Saturday Night Fever, Cabaret and Miss Saigon.
For Beauty & the Beast, a co-production between Joop van den Ende Theatre Productions and Disney Theatrical Productions, ten Brinke used an Alcons ribbon sound system for the first time. The system consists of 28 Alcons LR14 ultra-compact ribbon line-array, four LR14B compact line-array bass, four BF302 bass system and 11 ALC4 controller-amplifiers, complete with SDP processing modules.
"Since the première in the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam in September, we've received a lot of positive reactions to the sound," says ten Brinke. Preparations are now under way for the production to tour Germany.
(Jim Evans)
