Lighting designer Howard Harrison and associate lighting designer Pia Virolainen used a grandMA full-size, a grandMA light and three MA NSPs (Network Signal Processor) as well as grandMA 3D for pre-visualisation.
Pia Virolainen comments, "The central issue here was to make the show tourable whilst retaining the original look of the show. We reduced the number of conventional units quite considerably and adjusted the moving light rig accordingly. The back cloth is now lit by led battens instead of striplights and ETC pars - this proved to be very successful. It was very important to take care that this version is able to work in the quite diverse venues the tour will be playing - flexibility and time efficiency was a central concern."
"We specified grandMA 3D because of the tight time schedule," reports programmer Marcus Krömer. "It enabled us to do the focussing as well as programme the changes in advance. The lighting was adapted for the Spanish tour, with the original DHA Light Curtains replaced by Vari*Lite VL500T 80Vs and VL2000 spot/wash fixtures replaced by VL2500 spot/washes. Furthermore the whole finale had to be re-programmed, because the trussing configuration had changed."
(Jim Evans)
