This musical scored seven awards out of the 13 nominations at the recent Musical Awards Gala 2008 - another record.
The musical, based on three books written by Piet Bakker in the Fourties, tells about the Amsterdam street rascal Ciske, having difficulty in finding his way in life, in the Thirties. The head role is interpreted by Danny de Munk, who already played the renowned character in the successful movie from 1984.
The sound design was by Jeroen ten Brinke. After having already successfully deployed Alcons pro-ribbon systems in earlier musicals, he again designed a configuration based on Alcons sound systems, this time with the LR14 ultra-compact line-array.
The sound system, with as a particular characteristic a centrally flown left/right array for better imaging, consists of two arrays of each 12 units LR14 ultra-compact line-array and one LR14B (2 x 12 bandpass) line-array bass for the hindmost half of the groundfloor and balconies; For the first half of the groundfloor per side four units LR14 + 1 unit LR14B are stacked. Two units BF302 (double 15" bass system) act as a separately sent bass system.
All loudspeakers are powered and controlled by Alcons' ALC2 and ALC4 Amplified Loudspeaker Controllers, with analogue SDP loudspeaker processing.
(Jim Evans)
