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grandMA2 controls Matilda The Musical

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - The acclaimed Matilda The Musical packs the house at Broadway's Shubert Theatre while backstage a grandMA2 full-size controls the conventional and moving lights, scrollers, LEDs and video cues for Tony Award-winning lighting designer Hugh Vanstone.

Matilda The Musical, based on the novel by Roald Dahl, tells the story of an extraordinary girl who dreams about a better life and changing her destiny. It won Tony Awards for best book, featured actor, scenic design and lighting design and special Tony honours for the young actresses who portray Matilda; the show also netted Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. A Royal Shakespeare Company production, the show was transferred to Broadway after its West End London debut.

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Located in New Orleans' Central Business District, the Civic Theatre was built by architect Sam Stone in 1906 and originally known as the Shubert Theatre

New Orleans' Civic Theatre re-opens with L-Acoustics

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Following an extensive nine-month, $10.5m renovation project, the Civic Theatre, the oldest surviving theatre building in New Orleans, has officially reopened its doors after sitting dormant for more than three decades. To bring the 107-year-old, 15,000sq.ft performance venue up to today's production standards, Solomon Group, a new L-Acoustics certified provider for install and rental markets, specified and integrated a Kiva-Kilo loudspeaker system into the space.

Recently partnering with The Bowery Presents, one of the country's preeminent promoters for both emerging and establ

LIGHTset the ‘all-in-one' fabric set solution in action

Prominent Production launches LIGHTset

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - A new product has been designed, manufactured and launched in the UK to "totally transform the way stage and set backdrops are created, representing substantial savings on crew and transport costs".

LIGHTset, which has worldwide patents pending, is the brainchild of Kent-based Prominence Production Services Ltd and is an 'all-in-one', fabric set solution which combines 3D printed images, creative lighting and crisp front or rear projection. Comprising a specially developed, polyester fabric substrate with a patented coating, LIGHTset enables set images to be printed dir

To create the desired atmosphere, Utopium utilised a wide range of equipment

Utopium returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Utopium supplied lighting for the BBC at this year's 24 day Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2- 26 August 2013.

The Edinburgh Fringe is renowned for being the largest arts festival in the world, show producers, ACP Productions Ltd, commissioned Utopium to supply lighting rig for the BBC stage as well as outside screen supports and entrance way arches for its festival garden.

The festival showcases multitudes of talent from big name artists, such as comedians Ed Byrne and Dara O'Briain alongside complete unknowns who perform live from various stages around Scotland's capital city. The

The Prime Minister's Office is a major venue for international heads of Government meetings

Yamaha mixes with Brunei's government

Details: 14 March 2016

Brunei - Costing over £60m, the new Prime Minister's Office in Brunei is an opulent, state of the art venue which houses the central coordinating body for all of the sultanate's government ministries and agencies. With a theatre and banqueting hall that each seat 1000, a 300-seat conference hall and 13 further conference and meeting rooms, Yamaha digital mixers and amplifiers deliver the requisite optimum audio quality.

Covering 92,000m2, the complex is located in the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Woking-based LSI Projects was invited to work with technology consultants

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