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HSL supplies lighting equipment for ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ tour

HSL supplies lighting equipment for ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ tour
HSL supplies lighting equipment for ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ tour

HSL is supplying lighting equipment for the Bill Kenwright production of ‘The Glenn Miller Story’, touring the UK tour with Tommy Steel in the lead role. The show features a lighting design by LD Nick Richings. HSL’s John Slevin is project managing with Emma Nolan.

 

The lighting plot utilises seven over-stage LX bars and features a variety of lighting fixtures including over 60 moving lights. Forty of these are from Robe’s DL LED series which were newly purchased by HSL for the tour.

 

The 20 x DLF fresnels, 11 x DLS Profiles and 10 x DL4X Spots are the core fixtures on the rig. They are positioned across all the LX bars. Chief LX Christina Chapman, who is touring the show, operates a GrandMA onPC lighting console.

 

The DLs are joined by four Martin MAC Viper Profiles, four MAC 700 Profiles and 10 MAC Auras, plus a single Robe LEDWash 1200 rigged in the middle of LX6 to cover the 16-piece band when they are onstage, which also shines through the back projection (BP) screen when this is in.

 

Seven Robe CycFX 8s are positioned on LX8 to light the back of the BP screen with a wash and also to augment the band washes. The band is located on two stage trucks which split into two sections and move on and off stage.

 

Six LED battens provide a static floor and wall wash upstage, and there is also a flown set wall which comes in downstage of the BP screen. Three sets of portals - part of Mark Bailey’s design - are illuminated with LED tape.

 

Side stage ladders are loaded up with some of HSL’s Philips SL Nitro strobes and PARs for cross stage washes and a number of source fours fitted with cloud gobos recreate some of the sky effects. In addition to all the stage lighting, there are a number of set practicals, including on most of the flying scenery pieces. An industrial pendant drops in for the aircraft hangar scenes and changes to a decorative chandelier for the apartment scenes. Heart shaped Chinese lanterns and festoons are also used in certain scenes.

 

At each venue, they adapt some old pattern 743s which can be flown in on trapeze bars to create a vintage recording studio look. The MAC Vipers are positioned on the advanced bar and are used for multiple specials and the MAC 700 Profiles on LX7 also help to project buildings for the Manhattan apartment scenes. Christina Chapman and the core LX crew spent a week at HSL prepping the rig ahead of the tour.

 

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HSL supplies lighting equipment for ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ tourHSL supplies lighting equipment for ‘The Glenn Miller Story’ tour

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