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UK - White Light has been chosen to supply the lighting for Betty Blue Eyes, the new musical from producer Cameron Mackintosh.

Based on the film A Private Function by Alan Bennett and Malcolm Mowbray, Betty Blue Eyes is written by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman with music by George Stiles and lyrics by Anthony Drewe. Starring Sarah Lancashire, Reece Shearsmith and an animatronic pig called Betty, the show is being directed by Richard Eyre, choreographed by Stephen Mear, designed by Tim Hatley and the lighting is by this year's Olivier- and Tony-award winning lighting designer Neil Austin.

To light the show, Austin is using a wide selection of equipment from White Light's extensive and diverse rental stock, including a core moving light rig of ETC Revolutions, V

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Germany - The stage set for one of Germany's most famous and longest running live TV shows was recently illuminated by 120 XLED 590's from PR Lighting.

They were selected by show lighting director Manfred Voss (voss | mediaDesign) as floor effects for the ZDF show, Wetten, Dass, a game and entertainment TV series, which broadcasts six times a year from different theatres in Germany.

The LD, who has enjoyed a long relationship with both the show and the public-service German television channel, used them to highlight the recent performances of German stars, Bruno Mars and Udo

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Serbia - ETC's Serbian distributor Studio Berar welcomed over 600 visitors through the doors of Belgrade's BelExpo Centre for an open day last month.

Representing ETC, Fulvio Cotogni and Davide Gabbani presented a full range of lighting and control equipment, including the Congo, Eos and SmartFade lines, Selador LED fixtures and Source Four automated and conventional luminaires.

"We were both surprised and impressed by the number of people who came to the day-long event," says Cotogni, who is ETC's regional manager for southern Europe. "And they were of extremely high

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UK - The latest addition to the LSi Online website - home of PLASA Media's daily news service, LSi magazine archives and other resources - is the LSi Online Video Hub.

A database-driven resource for videos from across the industry, the LSi Video Hub aims to become a one-stop location for LSi Online's 20,000+ global audience to source and view industry-related video content. Visitors to the site can search by category, tag and keyword to refine their searches.

Beginning with almost 100 videos, the site will grow as more compani

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Disaster Relief - Liam Gallagher's band Beady Eye have released a cover of Beatles song Across the Universe to raise money for the Japanese disaster relief effort. The band played the track at a Japanese disaster benefit gig in London on Sunday having recorded it the previous day. The Beatles originally recorded the song for 1969 WWF fund-raising album No One's Gonna Change Our World. It was then re-recorded for the Let It Be album, released in 1970. The song is available digitally through the Beady Eye website for 99p, with 69p from each download going to the Briti
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