Elation refreshes The Good Parts tour
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Lighting design and programming was by Joshua Koffman of Interrobang, Inc., who used a combination of Elation ACL 360 Bar moving battens and Platinum Beam 5R moving head beams to light the show. Lighting vendor for the tour was RK Diversified Entertainment of Claremont, California.
Koffman, who has worked with Grammer on one-off shows in the past, says that the lighting rig’s flexibility was key as tour venues varied a great deal. “When we were planning the stage design for this tour we needed to accommodate a wide range of venues, both in stage size and height,” he explains. “Some places had existing rigs, some didn't. Some had high ceilings, some didn't. We needed something that would provide a consistent show from venue to venue.”
What they ended up with was a ground-supported rig that adapted to changes in stage width and height based on five interconnected vertical truss towers.
The set up included an upstage wall of 25 Elation ACL 360 Bar fixtures with Platinum Beam 5Rs working from atop five sticks of truss, a rig the LD says was very pronounced in the show. “We had the ACL Bars on front of truss towers,” says Koffman. “They created the main visual change between each song using colour, position, and movement. Because they are a linear fixture, we could have them, say, vertical for one song, then horizontal for another. We experimented with them in different shapes and I was really surprised at how well it all worked.”
The lighting package for the tour was supplied by RK Diversified Entertainment, Inc., a company that Koffman was happy to work with. “Ray Woodbury at RK Diversified did an amazing job pulling this together. There's no way we could have gotten this far without him and Sean Coates at the shop,” says Koffman. “In addition, he gave us our lighting director, Daniel O'Brien, and our technician, Max Misemer. Both of these guys were working hard every day to get the rig into some challenging spots, and I was very thankful to have them.”
(Jim Evans)
