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Artiste Picasso for Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre

Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre is a five-week summer festival in Logan, Utah, that presents four fully staged works in repertory at the Ellen Eccles Theatre. Lighting designer Chris Wood, who wrapped up his seventh season working on the festival, used Elation Artiste Picasso LED profile moving heads on this year’s productions - ‘Newsies’, ‘West Side Story’, ‘Mary Poppins’, and ‘The Marriage of Figaro’.

The festival opened in early July with final shows wrapping on August 3rd. There were two shows running every day and around 90 minutes between matinee and an evening performance to change out, redo colors and refocus. Chris Wood had 14 Artiste Picassos at his disposal along with other LED moving heads and a large amount of tungsten sources.

This was the first year they went completely with LED moving lights with the Artiste Picassos replacing some noisier arc source fixtures. Wood placed 12 Artiste Picasso units over stage at about a 28’ trim height - three units per electric - for specials, textures, etc., with two units at front of house for textures and washes.

“For ‘Newsies’, my programmer and I did a lot of heavy live moves with the framing shutters, creating shapes around pockets of dancers that corresponded with the choreography on stage,” he says. “As the group of Newsies did different formations during songs, we reshaped rectangles of light around them, which would follow them in realtime with the shutters moving and snapping.”

The lighting crew also included Josh Wroblewski (Associate LD), Taelore Stearns (Assistant LD), Omri Schwartz (Programmer), and Cody Soper (Master Electrician).

(Photos: Waldron Creative)

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