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Chauvet fixtures installed at Dover-Sherborn Regional High School theatre

About twenty years ago, lighting and scenic designer Len Schnabel - owner of DesignLight - and his family settled in Dover, a village about 15 miles southwest of Boston. It wasn’t long before Schnabel was asked to lend a hand to local school and community groups on their theatre projects. He hasn’t stopped helping since.

When the local Dover-Sherborn Regional High School decided to replace the older incandescent fixtures at its Mudge Auditorium with LED lighting earlier this year, Schnabel was involved, supplying 66 Chauvet Professional Ovation fixtures through DesignLight.

Using funds from the Alan Thayer Mudge Memorial Fund, the school acquired 50 Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime ellipsoidal and 16 Ovation F-915FC RGBA-Lime Fresnel fixtures. The ellipsoidals are used primarily for acting area cross keys, specials, and side light, while the Fresnel units serve as toners and steep backlights.

The new Ovation fixtures replaced the theatre’s incandescent ellipsoidal and par units. Dover-Sherborn was also able to retire the dimmer rack and color scrollers that it had been using with its old lighting system.

“We had the full cooperation of the school administration in scheduling the town electrician to remove the 48-channel dimming system, install a breaker panel, and replace most of the stagepin whips with Edison connectors,” says Schnabel. “We repurposed some of the old pars and installed a new 12-channel architectural dimmer rack, as well as a single scene controller for work and rehearsal lighting.”

“With the addition of the new Ovation fixtures to the 10 Colorado strip fixtures that I purchased for the program a few years ago, we now have over 75 intelligent color-changing lights at Dover-Sherborn,” Schnabel concludes.

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