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Vari-Lite VL2600 Spots illuminate Yale’s “Next to Normal”

Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama staged a performance of the American rock musical “Next to Normal” recently, with a lighting design by David DeCarolis using VL2600 Spot luminaires as part of the Vari-Lite University Outreach Program from Signify.

The Vari-Lite University Outreach Program initiative is an ongoing project allowing talented students to use Vari-Lite luminaires in a real-world environment. The program allows educational design programs to connect with Vari-Lite technology and staff to explore design solutions that are often only available to professionals.

DeCarolis says that one of his favorite lighting moments was the “Dr. Rock” scene where the character Diana is seeing a new psychiatrist for the first time. “He does this rockstar stance and pose and we went for it with the lighting”, he says. “Using the VL2600s the lighting state went from very realistic doctor office interior to gobo effects spinning with deep colors, to emphasize the drama, and then quickly snap back into the previous state.”

“In another scene I was trying to simulate a mirror ball and using the gobo effects I managed it using the VL2600s, beaming small dots of bright white light that punched through the blue-black backlight I was using”, he continues. DeCarolis also says he washed the entire stage when required, using the VL2600 Spot luminaires, choosing a deep, “almost vibrating” blue to transform the space.

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