Stage Electrics is supplying a full video production for the tour, featuring a 6 x 5m high definition 6mm pixel pitch LED video screen that forms an upstage backdrop, as well as full video production.
The rig includes two Hothead cameras controlled by a Catalyst V4 media server, a Grand MA2 Lite console for programming, and the latest Grand MA 2 on PC command wing for show operation.
The tour is the second on which Stage Electrics has provided live video production for producer Michael Harrison Entertainment, along with video designer Jack James, the same creative team behind the highly-successful musical Chess, and lighting designer Ben Cracknell. Mark Sherwood is production manager for the tour, which opens at Newcastle Theatre Royal on 23 March and then tours the UK for 11 weeks.
Business development manager Mark Burnett comments, "We're delighted to be working with Michael Harrison's team again on this spectacular new show. It's another big step in our commitment to our video production services, and the Grand MA Playback Wings will form part of our regular rental stock after the tour."
Starring Elaine C Smith, best known as Mary Doll in BBC TV's Rab C Nesbitt, the musical follows Susan Boyle's meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global icon and features signature songs from her multi-platinum selling albums.
Charting her climb from humble beginnings in a working town in the north of Scotland, to a standing ovation at her audition for Britain's Got Talent, through to her global super stardom, I Dreamed A Dream features many of the hit songs from Susan's multi-platinum selling albums.
(Jim Evans)
