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Ken Billington selcts Vari-Lite VLZ for ‘Dreamgirls’

Broadway lighting designer Ken Billington included 66 of Vari-Lite’s LED-based VLZ fixtures in his lighting rig for the latest touring production of ‘Dreamgirls’, a show he first lit in 2008. “I needed to reproduce the lighting for this production, which was using the same scenery, costumes and direction as eleven years earlier,” Billington explains his selection of the VLZ fixture family. “Equipment has changed and what we used originally, VL2500 Wash, VL3000 Spot, VL3500 Spot and color scrollers are no longer available - and if they are, they’re old and unreliable.”

After seeing a demo of the fixture, Billington accepted the VLZs as the next generation fixtures that would bring the desired continuity to the new production. “The main challenge was to reproduce this show exactly as it had been done before,” he says.

In total Billington specified 32 VLZ Wash, 22 VLZ Spot and 12 VLZ Profile fixtures. “The VLZ package forms the entire overhead lighting rig for the show,” says his associate lighting designer, Ben Travis. “Back light, top light, pipe ends, specials - all VLZ. Then, conventional and LED ellipsoidals take care of side-light and front-light.”

(Photos: Tsuyoshi Toya/Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc.)

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