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Ayrton Eurus S for “Disney’s Hercules” musical

“Disney’s Hercules”, a new musical inspired by the company’s 1997 animated feature, debuted at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, on February 16, 2023, with more than sixty Ayrton Eurus S fixtures obtained from 4Wall New Jersey taking centre stage.

The production marks the third time that lighting designer Jeff Croiter has chosen Eurus S for theatrical musicals, increasing the number of fixtures each time. Last year he selected eight for “Bruce”, a musical about the making of the movie “Jaws”, then he upped the count to more than forty for “The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation”.

With that experience behind him, he thought of Eurus again for “Disney’s Hercules”. According to Croiter, Eurus are “responsible for most of the light on stage: There’s not a cue that a Eurus somewhere is not turned on.” They provide backlight and high sidelights on overhead pipes and additional sidelights on ladders in the wings. Eurus are also mounted in FOH box booms (torms).

ACT Entertainment, the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America, helped 4Wall boost its already substantial Eurus complement for “Disney’s Hercules”, obtaining approximately thirty more fixtures from Ayrton on short notice at the end of 2022.

Croiter plans to continue using the fixtures when “Disney’s Hercules” moves to Europe this spring. “The show’s next stop is Germany where my great hope is that I can use Eurus again along with Ayrton Huracans and probably some Diablos. I’m aiming for an all-Ayrton rig”, he declares.

(Photos: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade)

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