For Saturday Night Fever, at the Apollo Victoria, lighting designer Gavan Swift specified eight custom gobos for Martin MAC 2000s and two custom gobos for Selecon Pacifics as well as 204 stock MAC designs and 44 stock conventional designs. The Pacific gobos of the 'dancin' man' and 'halo' parts of the logo were used to light the logo on the show's front gauze. The gobos and lighting rig were supplied by Stage Electrics in Bristol.
Stage Electrics are also supplying the equipment for the new Cameron Mackintosh/Disney co-production of Mary Poppins, which will open in Bristol before transferring to London. Howard Harrison's lighting design includes 193 stock gobos for moving lights (a mixture of ETC Revolutions, Vari-Lite VL3000s and VL2000s and MAC 2000 Performances), 174 stock gobos for Source Fours and six custom gobos for Source Four Zooms - window patterns to match the windows in Bob Crowley's set. Harrison is also using seven of DHA's Digital Light Curtains as part of his rig.
Already in London are The Woman in White, the new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Bat Boy, a new production of the New York off-Broadway hit. For The Woman In White at the Palace Theatre, lighting designer Paul Pyant is using ETC Revolutions, ETC Source Fours and Vari-Lite VL3000s fitted with gobos from DHA to complement the projected scenery designed by William Dudley. For Bat Boy at the Shaftesbury, lighting designer Tony Simpson is using a selection of DHA rectangular, leaf and dot break-ups in Martin MAC 550s and MAC 2000s. The rectangular shapes are used both as masks since neither unit offers shutters, and to help give broken rotating light during scene changes. The gobos and lighting rigs for both shows were supplied by White Light.
DHA will be exhibiting at the 2004 PLASA Show from September 12th-15th at Earl's Court in London, on stand H11.
(Lee Baldock)
