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Lighting Designer
Bradley King
Associate Lighting Designer
Alex Mannix
Assistant Lighting Designer
Bentley Heydt
Design Membership Candidate
Em Stripling
Production Electrician
Jeremy Wahlers
Head Electrician
Savannah Bell
House Head Electrician
Justin Freeman
Spot Operators
Laura Prather & Mike Sbrocci
About the Project:How to Dance in Ohio was a new musical that I had originally programmed at Syracuse Stage with Bradley in the fall of 2022, the show’s message meant a lot to me and I really hoped that it would continue to evolve and hopefully get an additional production. In the fall of 2023, it was announced that How to Dance in Ohio was going to get a broadway run. It was extremely exciting to be making my programming debut alongside so many other talented artists.
The Lighting:The lighting rig contained Martin Mac Ultra Performances, Ayrton Diablos, and GLP X4 Bars. It was masterfully loaded in and maintained by Jeremy Wahlers and his amazing team of Local One electricians. The show utilized two Robe Fortes with Lightmaster handles as followspots, this was all controlled from within the Eos console using multiple cue lists to pass information onto the spot operators, who had pucks at their stations in the booth. The control system consisted of an Eos Ti as the backup, an Apex RPU as the primary, and an Eos Ti as the programmer client console, with many pucks distributed around the building.
Takeaways: As this was my first full broadway show, I learnt a lot about the politics of working on broadway, continued to refine how to build checkouts and make a show easy to maintain, in order to run for an extended period of time. This show taught me a lot more about working with custom pixel mapping content and syncing it across multiple devices; followspot cue management within eos, and determining how to best display data that the spot assistant was providing; and building the tools needed to be able to run a show 8 times a week and ensure accuracy and repeatability each time.
Eos Features Used:
Pixel Mapping, Augment3D, Multiple Cue Lists, Timecode, Magic Sheets