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Bradley King lights ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ with Elation Artiste

The new production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at the Westside Theatre in New York City, which marked the musical’s return to Off-Broadway, opened at the venue’s 270-seat upstairs stage on October 17, 2019, and ran until mid-March 2020 when Broadway went dark due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

His first time working at the venue, two of lighting designer Bradley King’s principal luminaires used on the production came from Elation Professional’s Artiste series of theatrical-grade moving heads. “John Dunn (Elation National Sales Manager) gave me a demo of the Artiste Monet last spring,” King states. “At that point, the Monet was so new that we couldn’t quite get enough to fill out the needs of the show, so he offered the Picasso as a supplement.”

Located essentially FOH in the theatre’s overhead grid-system, King describes the positioning and role of the Artiste fixtures on the show: “The Monets work as monster pipe ends for our show deck’s apron, as well as low box-boom units that almost come in at head height. We also have a Monet at center FOH that operates mainly as a movable special. The Picassos are spread out a little more in concert with the Monets, mainly filling out crosslight and box boom system ideas.”

The designer adds that the theatre is too small for followspots, so there’s a position of five Picassos on a downstage FOH pipe that are constantly picking out actors “in a very followspot-y fashion.” The lighting was programmed by Grant Yeager, the Production Electrician was Tom Dyer.

(Photos: Emilio Madrid-Kuser)

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