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Herrick Goldman chooses Chauvet fixtures for ‘Tinga Tinga Tales - The Musical’

Seven Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures were selected for the North American premiere of the Kenyan children’s musical ‘Tinga Tinga Tales - The Musical’. These lights, along with thirteen Maverick MK2 Wash units and eight Colorado 2-Quad Zooms, supplied by WorldStage, were part of a Herrick Goldman lighting design for the show at Manhattan’s New Victory Theater.

“The MK2 Spots provided the strong beams of the chromatic rainbow when the children in the audience discover how the Chameleon character gets his colors,” says Goldman, who positioned the 440 W moving LED fixtures on the second electric. “They enabled us to shift Chameleon’s moods rapidly. The MK2 Spots also played heavily in Tortoise’s Rasta rap, with a call and response with the audience.”

“We wanted to keep the same energy and vibe we had in Nairobi once we got to New York,” continues Goldman who also was in charge when the musical made its world debut at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi earlier in the fall of 2018. “My associate Jacquelyn Cox was instrumental in translating the cues and looks from one venue to another, and Jay Penfield, our programmer, was able to immediately translate a look from a video into the new rig and a different console.”

The five Maverick MK2 Wash fixtures that Goldman positioned on the balcony rail provided a color wash from a low angle that accented the cast’s costumes. An additional eight Maverick MK2 Wash units on the third electric were used to light the band and wash the scrim, as well as for backlighting and audience washing. The Colorado 2-Quad Zoom fixtures in the rig were used to highlight the Tinga Tree upstage.

“We devoted many of our resources to covering the audience,” says Goldman. “The wash fixtures on the balcony rail picked up characters when they entered the audience area. We also had fixtures on FOH truss to wash the crowd in texture, hit the mirror ball, and provide other specials as needed. Our front light operator, Tracey Isabell, handled the many pickups in the house and some tricky ones on stage as well.”

Also coming in for praise from Goldman were Paul Bradley, who helped flesh out the light plot while he was in Kenya, and Rachel Fraley, the associate ME. “This was really a team effort,” says Goldman.  “I’m grateful to the staff of the New Victory whose goal is to educate young audiences and bring them to the joy that is theater. I’d also like to thank the Nairobi team of Claudia Lloyd and Sheba Hirst (producers), as well as the production team of Wamai (SM) and Kibugi (audio).”

(Photos: Alexis Buatti-Ramos)

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