Elation lights Ghost the Musical
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Guminski worked with master electrician and assistant LD Lizzie Mahoney on the adapted version of the play at the 410-seat professional theatre outside of New York City.
“We used the Satura Profiles several ways to help create the mood, as template washes, specials and aerial effects,” Guminski stated. “The framing was especially useful as it allowed for ultimate control. It was a box set with multiple projection surfaces so it was important that the projection on the scrim not be washed out.”
The LED-based Satura Profile with CMY colour mixing, four-blade rotating framing shutter system, gobos, prism and other design features is a fixture that Guminski is well familiar with, having used them in shows like Heathers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and High Society. For Ghost the Musical the LD used six Satura Profiles in total, two on the near box booms at FOH, three on the first electric and one upstage on a very high trimmed fifth electric.
Guminski explains that sometimes the type of lighting used was motivated by the projection looks while at other times, when using a very saturated look for example, the projection would follow the lighting’s lead. “The Saturas punched through to create some really special moments even with layered templates or the iris aperture closed way down,” he says. “I used the variable CTO several times throughout the show and they blended well with the tungsten rig. I continue to be impressed with them. They are a rock-solid fixture.”
Ghost the Musical at the White Plains Performing Arts Centre ran from 13-29 October and was the first showing of an adapted, simplified version of the play that featured a smaller cast of 10.
(Jim Evans)
