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Elation Artiste DaVinci used for Syracuse Stage’s “The Wizard of Oz”

Lighting designer Herrick Goldman used Elation Professional’s Artiste DaVinci LED moving head spot for color and visual effects on a Syracuse Stage production of “The Wizard of Oz”. The musical, directed by Donna Drake, was Syracuse Stage's holiday co-production with the Syracuse University Department of Drama. The well-known story was told in a new way with tumbling and flying elements from acrobats turned actors from New York’s 2 Ring Circus.

Nine Artiste DaVinci units were placed on electrics and used for color and texture wash from all positions - downlight, sidelight, backlight and frontlight. When zoomed out the fixtures covered the entire 36’ wide by 25’ deep stage.

Goldman incorporated patterns from the fixture’s two gobo wheels in several scenes, for example a leaf breakup for the forest scene, a spots breakup in the poppy scene, a spiral gobo on the ground, and a construction breakup. He also used the fixture’s built-in animation wheel in the Jitterbug scene (not in the movie), in the tornado scenes and in the Emerald City to highlight the gates and give them motion. “I also used the prism and the effects wheel a lot,” he adds.

While the pre-Oz scenes were kept bereft of color as in the famous 1939 movie, the production’s set was otherwise awash in color, often blue and gold. “We used cool white tones in the Kansas scenes and then as the story moves on the looks got more colorful, culminating when the characters reached the Emerald City,” the designer explains.

The lighting designer also placed two Artiste DaVinci fixtures on the deck, downstage left and right, to light the 2 Ring Circus aerialists and their cirque-like feats. “We created some enhanced shadows from there and up onto the ceiling,” he says. A total of eleven Artiste DaVinci fixtures were used in the production with an extra tucked away just in case.

(Photos: Michael Davis)

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