In keeping with the creative streak that characterizes Seattle (this is the city that gave us grunge, Windows and Amazon), Parlor Live is no ordinary comedy club. Aside from its 200-seat comedy club, this two-story venue also houses a sports bar, cocktail lounge/restaurant and meeting facility.
"From a lighting standpoint, this was really three or four different projects in one," said designer Stephen Weeks of Morgan Sound and Audiovisual who was responsible for creating a design that met the diverse demands of this venue, while giving it a unified, consistent look.
As stage lighting, the four Ovation F-165WW LED Fresnels and eight COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour par-style fixtures in the Parlor Live rig offer advantages that go beyond energy efficiency, according to Weeks. "Being LEDs, these fixtures are much cooler than incandescent lighting is on stage, which the comedians appreciate," he said. "We also get a flat even field from the Ovations and a color temperature that works well for video production."
Weeks positioned the four Ovation F-165WW fixtures on a ceiling bar 14ft in front of the stage. An equal number of COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour fixtures are on the bar with the Fresnels. The four other Zoom Tours are positioned overhead upstage. Forty-two COLORband Pix pixel mappable linear RGB fixtures are also utilized for audience effect lighting and wall washes.
The sports bar section of Parlor Live will have a lighting system run by a professional when it hosts events with dancing. A Hog 4 controller is used to run this area's lighting rig, which includes 36 Ilumipod L?GIC Tri-1 RGB fixtures and 27 Ilumipod LOGIC Tri-4 circular RGB fixtures.
Weeks used the Ilumipod LOGIC Tri-1 and Ilumipod LOGIC Tri-4 fixtures from Chauvet's sister company ILUMINARC to give the main area of the bar a distinctive look that stands out while also harmonizing with the clean look of the comedy club.
(Jim Evans)
