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Aug 24, 2010 |
 | | Sound Designers on Shrek the Musical changed the system to make it lighter for touring, but still got big sound out of the d&b rig. |
CHICAGO—When a large show like Shrek the Musical tours, it challenges sound designers to develop a
system that can deliver a big sound experience that doesn’t compromise the
sound in a small package that loads in fast and packs light to minimize truck
space.
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Aug 24, 2010 |
BETHESDA, MD—
The American Alliance for Theatre and Education named Lynne Kingsley as
executive director at their recent convention in San Francisco. The former New
York actress and fashion executive will be the American Alliance
for Theatre and Education’s (AATE) first Executive Director since the
organization was relocated to the Washington, DC area from Tempe,
AZ in 2003.
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Aug 24, 2010 |
NEW YORK—The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF)
has announced the nominees for the MITF Eleventh Annual Season Awards. The
AWARDS CEREMONY will be held on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 8pm at New World
Stages. Audiences voted online for the Best of Fest and winners will be
announced at the ceremony. One of the Best of the Fest voters will win tickets
to The 39 Steps in a drawing held at
the ceremony.
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Aug 23, 2010 |
 | | A screenshot from the BlueBox RDM Controller from Wireless Solution. |
UDDEVALLA, Sweden—Wireless Solution Sweden AB will unveil
the latest product to their award-winning W-DMX line, the BlueBox RDM
Controller, during PLASA 2010 in London, September 12-15 in Stand 1-E43.
BlueBox is a PC-based integrated DMX and RDM controller software. Built from
the ground up specifically for controlling large rigs of RDM enabled products, the
BlueBox RDM controller allows users to search for any RDM enabled product in a
DMX/RDM Network, automatically patch the fixture, and control the fixture, as
well as receive status updates on the fixture and configure settings such as
fixture mode, lamp on/off and more.
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Aug 23, 2010 |
 | | A Prism Projection Reveal Color Wash fixture like the ones installed at Grayson County College Theatres |
SULLY, IA—Grayson County College’s Art and Communications
Center in Denison, Texas has purchased 10 Prism Projection Reveal Color Wash
(Reveal CW) fixtures for the newly-renovated, 1,000-seat Cruce Stark Auditorium
and the new, more intimate 50-foot-by-50-foot Black Box Theater. The latter space features a fully-flexible
seating system by Staging Concepts that can accommodate up to 150 people
depending on the configuration. The
Cruce Stark Auditorium and Black Box Theater are used as classrooms and for
theatre and music performances; they are also available for community events
and outside rentals.
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Aug 23, 2010 |
 | | Jim Koza, new Eastern Regional Sales Director for Wybron. |
COLORADO SPRINGS,
CO—Jim Koza has joined Wybron
sales team as Eastern Regional Sales Director. Jim brings to Wybron more than
18 years experience in sales, marketing, and executive sales management from
diverse industries. For the past 10 years Jim has been in business outsourcing,
distribution, manufacturing and channel sales where he was responsible for
national sales for two separate companies in the consumer electronics,
satellite, and wireless internet industry.
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Aug 19, 2010 |
 | | The interior of the new Guangzhou Opera House, which uses an L-Acoustics line array. |
GUANGZHOU, China—Located in the new
city of Pearl River, the Guangzhou Opera House has become one of China’s three
biggest theatres. Constructed from 12,000 tons of steel on a
750,000-square-foot site, the Opera House includes an 1800-seat theatre as well
as a smaller 400-seat venue. Both have been equipped with L-Acoustics sound
reinforcement systems supplied by Chinese distributor Rightway Audio
Consultants and installed by contractor Leifull Light and Sound Enterprises.
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Aug 19, 2010 |
 | | Students in the PM Consoles Engineer Panel at the recent Yamaha Audioversity event in Nashville. |
NASHVILLE—More than 475 audio
professionals braved the high heat and humidity in Nashville to attend the first Audioversity
two-day event held by Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. (YCAS).
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Aug 19, 2010 |
 | | Fernando Perez-Cervantes, new Operations Manager of the Americas for Tomcat. |
MIDLAND, TX—Tomcat
has hired Fernando Perez-Cervantes as its new Operations Manager of the Americas. Among
other jobs, Fernando held a number of very important positions within the
Chrysler group and recently joined the Tomcat team to plan, organize, direct
and control the operations functions in the U.S.
and Mexico.
Fernando brings extensive experience in lean manufacturing and organizational
development, with a global perspective.
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Aug 19, 2010 |
NEW YORK—MetLife
Foundation and Theatre Communications Group (TCG) have announced the third
round of recipients for the A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It, which encourages
TCG member theatres to think and act creatively. Six theatres were awarded
grants, totaling $225,000, to either research and develop new production ideas
or experiment and implement innovative concepts in the theatre field. The total
award amount is a 50 percent increase from last year’s total of $150,000.
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; "Sound Designers on Shrek the Musical changed the system to make it lighter for touring, but still got big sound out of the d&b rig.")
; "A screenshot from the BlueBox RDM Controller from Wireless Solution.")
; "A Prism Projection Reveal Color Wash fixture like the ones installed at Grayson County College Theatres")
; "Jim Koza, new Eastern Regional Sales Director for Wybron.")
; "The interior of the new Guangzhou Opera House, which uses an L-Acoustics line array.")
; "Students in the PM Consoles Engineer Panel at the recent Yamaha Audioversity event in Nashville.")
; "Fernando Perez-Cervantes, new Operations Manager of the Americas for Tomcat.")
