Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald are making their way across Europe on a 51 date tour; their first as a three-piece band. Renowned for their impressive production - think Progress Tour's OM Robot - the 2015 tour is no different, with a myriad of standout moments to make the crowd go 'wow'.
One of these is the moment when the 'under-the-sea' scene is revealed to the audience, complete with psychedelic jellyfish.
Looking for a way to keep the scene change hidden from the audience, Take That's production team - led by Chris Vaughan - contacted Blackout. The company's in-house fabrications department manufactured two 38m wide by 17m drop white poly-lined drapes.
On a curved truss, the drapes close during the scene change, shielding the entire stage and set from the audience. Once closed, the material is softly-lit with gobos, and becomes the canvass for shadow puppetry and bright, multi-coloured projections, keeping the audience mesmerised while the set change goes on unnoticed behind.
Blackout's fabrications manager, Jenny Clark, said: "The material was carefully chosen to ensure it worked well with the lighting and video projection, allowing the shadow puppetry to really stand out. Incorporating fabric into a show like this is a really simple, yet incredibly effective way of making more of a scene change. It worked really well and had a certain element of surprise."
For more on Take That's 2015 tour, see the July issue of LSi - OUT NOW.
