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The musical made its debut as a preview on 7 March 2015 at the Teatro Coccia in Novara with a cast of professionals from the Compagnia della Rancia directed by Marco Iacomelli. The scenery was designed by Gabriele Moreschi, costumes by Carla Ricotti, choreographies by Gillian Bruce, and lighting by Valerio Tiberi.

Next to Normal started in 1998 in the United States as a workshop lasting just 10 minutes. Ten years later, it was a short step from the first Off-Broadway performance to its final seal of approval on Broadway itself. The musical made its début at

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14 March 2016

Speaking at a meeting for PLASA Members held during the PLASA Show, John Simpson, PLASA Governing Body chairman and chairman of the White Light Group of companies, said, "Without doubt our major issue this year has been that of diminishing profit, which has led to a critical cash-flow problem for the organisation.

"We have taken action in implementing cost-cutting measures across many parts of PLASA, including reduction in staff, putting the Eastbourne office up for sale and a substantial restructure of the organisation. We have overcome the immediate cash flow problems for 2015, but will be limited in services we can provide during

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14 March 2016

After taking time to consider all available options Fremlab came back to KV2 with Carl Fredrik Malmgren, Fremlab's CEO, explaining, "One of the main reasons for choosing the VHD System, besides the obvious superior sound quality, was both the reliability of all the other KV2 products that we have been using for almost 10 years now, as well as the extremely easy set up and plug and play capability that VHD offers. All this, accompanied by the flexibility that a point source solution offers for both indoor and outdoor events, related perfectly to the needs of our rental and event business."

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14 March 2016

TiMax's return to the AES (Stand 665), with longstanding US Distributor 1602 Group LLC, marks a landmark period for the product's core theatre market on Broadway, with five major shows employing TiMax audio showcontrol and localisation in the last two years, and so far collecting 10 prestigious Tony Awards between them.

Disney's Aladdin is moving into its third year at the New Amsterdam with sound design by Ken Travis, using four TiMax SoundHub-S64/AES units and a TiMax Tracker system supplied by Masque and which has gone worldwide with Tokyo, Hamburg and London productions already running or scheduled.

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14 March 2016

"I immediately heard the difference in sound quality from last year," says Jelle Bleijenberg of CineMec, the cinema operator that provided the feature films for the festival. "With Leopard, the sound was far more direct, and with a good stereo image throughout the audience."

Mark Oppedijk of Aukes agrees that Leopard was a huge improvement for the festival. "This is one of our largest audio projects on a continuing basis, and Leopard performed far bet

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14 March 2016

In late August Carroccia's current Emozioni (Emotion) tour played a major outdoor show in the city of Fondi, where a comprehensive Yamaha and Nexo system was appreciated by 6000 passionate Battisti fans.

Carroccia bears an uncanny resemblance to Battisti and, alongside him, the three-hour music and speech recital in Fondi's Piazza De Gasperi featured 18 musicians and Giulio Rapetti, aka Mogol, Battisti's friend and songwriting partner from 1966 to 1981. Technical production was by Sperlonga-based Remix Sound, under the watchful eye of company boss Riccardo De Simone.

The Front of House mix was taken care of by Michele De Si

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The ceremonies were held in the new Kintele stadium which seats 6000 people and celebrated the richness and diversity of African culture with bright costumes, music and fireworks.

Y and Co, the France-based rental company that specialises in audio solutions for events and broadcasts, supplied and installed an Eclipse HX Median digital matrix platform running version 8.5 software, and embedded with three MVX-A16-HX 16-port audio and data frame card, an IVC-32-HX IP interface frame card, and six CCI-22 two-wire partyline interfaces. V-Series V12LD and V24LD panels and the Agent-IC mobile app were provided to the production team for communication.

The

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COTM is well known for its high-energy events, with music playing a leading role in worship for the thousands of people that attend. Every service is a powerful, professional live production with technical and performance values that equal the best in commercial tour-sound and theatre. To compliment this approach, the church has recently purchased two SSL L500s and a Live Remote Expander for

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14 March 2016

The 66th edition of IAA Cars, the world's largest motor show, saw one of the biggest collections of GLP impression LED moving heads ever assembled under one roof.

Taking place over 225,000sq.m of stand space at the Messe Frankfurt, leading manufacturers and their creative teams chose GLP impressions from right across the X4 range to deliver mission critical solutions.

Leading the charge was Volkswagen, where the team from lighting design and technical conception company, rgb gmbh specified a massive 430 of GLP's new X4 L heads and 300 X4 Bar 20, (part of an overall complement of more than 2,000 fixtures) with the inventory provided by PRG Germany, who had been nominat

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14 March 2016

Aptly titled Wired Mastered, the new event will follow soundly in the footsteps of their thriving Wireless Mastered seminar, which continues to tour across the UK and Europe.

Wired Mastered is tailored specifically to provide engineers and production professionals with the knowledge and confidence to make comprehensive decisions when choosing and operating wired microphone technology.

Attendees will learn from Shure's microphone experts, covering crucial topics, such as the history behind modern microphones, the fundamental science behind the technology, and how to apply best-practice across a w

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14 March 2016

Following an enthusiastic response and non-stop crowds in the PRG booth all Friday and Saturday, the LDI team was awarded the LDI Best Debuting Product - Staging and Rigging for the new PRG GroundControl Followspot System. Presented at the LDI Awards event on the show floor and accepted by PRG product manager for Luminaires Chris Conti, who thanked PRG's Technology Development team, based in Dallas. He also thanked the industry colleagues who contributed feedback during development, especially Lighting Designer Bob Barnhart and the Full Flood team for their inspiration towards developing this revolutionary product.

The PRG GroundControl Followspot System allows the spot operator to be in a remote location up to 2,000' away whi

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14 March 2016

Berlin-based audio company auvisign GmbH & Co., a regular partner of event organiser Wohlthat Entertainment GmbH, chose Nexo's STM modular line array technology for the mainstage PA and extensive delay systems, supplementing them with plentiful numbers of cabinets from other ranges of NEXO such as GEO, Alpha and PS Series. Controlled by Yamaha CL5 mixers, the systems were set up over Dante and Ethersound networks.

Although auvisign has used STM in several different configurations at Brandenburg Gate/Fan Meile events, this was the first time that the M46 large-format cabinets have been deployed as the main

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The event, which was broadcast live by Fox on Sunday to a viewership of 11.9m viewers across the U.S., recognised achievements for the 2014 - 2015 television season.

Hosted by Brooklyn Nine-Nine star and comedian Adam Samberg, the event's big winner was HBO, which racked up 43 Emmys: more than any other network. HBO's Game of Thrones received 12 awards, including Best Drama Series, setting a new record for the most Emmy Awards received by any show in a single year.

For the duration of the event, including the 67th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards held the week prior, p

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14 March 2016

SoundTools was started in 1996 by engineer Dave Rat, when faced with the need for a solution for troubleshooting bad mic lines during the heat of setting up a concert. His development resulted in the original XLR Sniffer / Sender and over the years SoundTools has expanded its range to provide a collection of products designed for the audio professional.

Andy Huffer, director of sales for HD Pro Audio, commented, "Having used SoundTools when working in the field, we know first-hand about the level of quality and attention to detail in the product, as well as the innovation that goes into them. HD Pro Audio is honoured to now be in a position to bring these great devices to a wider audience and open up the UK market for

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Dizzy Gosnell accepted the award, which was held at the Rio Resort and Casino October 24 during LDI, and was hosted by Kevin Lyman, founder of Vans Warped Tour. This is the fifth win and fifteenth nomination for Bandit, which has been nominated every year since the award's commencement. It is the twenty third Lighting Company of the Year award Bandit has won globally.

Bandit chair, Michael T. Strickland credits the win to Bandit's hardworking staff and valuable clients. "It is always humbling to be honoured in such a way by your peers," he said. "All at Bandit appreciate the recognition and support. We could not do it without the great support

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14 March 2016

Bico's lighting designer Hans Henrik Schmidt says, "Originally, the tower was lit by some 40kW of lighting; the management were keen to reduce power consumption, so cut that by half, but were then, of course, disappointed with the output quality.

"After talking to us about how they could obtain the same high quality of lighting, but with lower power usage, we offered them 17 of the outdoor ETC Desire fixtures, which use a combined total of little more than two kilowatts."

Using an ETCnomad system, Schmidt was able to create a look that could be stored directly in the Desire fixtures. At night, all that the end users need to do is turn on the powe

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14 March 2016

This team ensures the continuity of the service D.A.S. has offered to the extensive number of its customers and users in Brazil through Decomac, and with the help of direct support from D.A.S. headquarters in Valencia aims to further improve after-sales care, training and technical support for the new products the D.A.S. plans to launch on the Brazilian market soon.

D.A.S. do Brasil will open its doors at the same location used by Decomac at Rua Dos Andradas in the Santa Efigenia neighbourhood of São Paulo, headed by a management team clo

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14 March 2016

LightPool is a collaboration between London-based Ross Ashton and The Projection Studio who storyboarded and created the content, and Edinburgh based War Productions whose Alistair Young produced the technical design and supplied the hardware and control.

The two companies have worked together on previous projects, and Alistair suggested that he and Ross join forces to pool their extensive knowledge and experience of projection mapping monuments to answer a tender put out by Blackpool Council.

Their proposals were selected from some stiff competiti

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14 March 2016

On presenting the cheque, David Lincecum, vice president of marketing, commented, "When we started this, we never imagined that the sale of this app could produce over $233,000 for such a great cause. An important part of the ETC culture is being of service to each other, especially in times of need. We are very humbled by the large impact this small app has produced for the members of our community who have needed a little help."

Rick Rudolph, chair of Behind the Scenes, responded, "We are as amazed as ETC at what this app, developed by Chris Mizerak and Anders Ekvall, has been able to do for our colleagues in need who are so often in deseperate situations due t

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14 March 2016

AES67-specific extensions to the different network platforms provide for the common interchange of digital audio between them. In the instance of the demo, digital audio signals will be interoperable between devices employing Dante, Livewire, Q-LAN and RAVENNA. A total of 22 devices, from ALC NetworX, Archwave AG, Axia Audio, Digigram, DirectOut, Focusrite, Genelec, Lawo, Merging Technologies, QSC, Solid State Logic, Telos System

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14 March 2016

As White Light is Central Hall Westminster's production service partner, the company provided all of the production support for the evening - with the venue being the only English landmark to be featured as part of this iconic occasion.

Central Hall Westminster has a long and historic relationship with the UN. In 1946, the venue was chosen for the very first General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations; a meeting that saw the appointment of the first Secretary General, along with the c

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14 March 2016

With the festival growing in popularity every year, Creamfields producer LarMac LIVE are working to create a bigger and better experience for the audience at each event.

Featuring two main stages - North and South - with identical screen set-ups, and a further seven tent arenas, PRG XL Video were brought in early in the design process to help deliver Creamfields' most ambitious production to date.

The recent combination of PRG and XL Video further streamlined the process this year, with video across all stages, and lighting and rigging on the two main stages all supplied by the new integrated team. Under the direction of Ian Greenway of LarMac LIVE, Paul 'Macca' M

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Every year the association Arketipos brings internationally renowned landscape architects together and invites them to present their most significant experiences at an international meeting held in the evocative setting of the old Teatro Sociale.

The fringe events attract a wide, varied audience, especially thanks to the now famous "green makeover" of Piazza Vecchia, which is transformed radically for the event and renamed Piazza Verde (Green Square). The design of the square is entrusted to a different internationally renowned landscape architect each year. This year the idea for Green Square

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Although it is still being developed, STAR said the code could include prohibiting the listing of speculative tickets by sellers, details of a resale agent's policies and procedures if an event were cancelled or postponed, and the creation of a "trusted environment where customers feel confident in listing tickets".

STAR already operates a code of practice for the primary ticket market, with the proposed code for the secondary market aiming to provide "similarly high stand