grandMA arrives on Broadway

The first Broadway show to use the grandMA console from MA Lighting will be the upcoming production of Thoroughly Modern Millie which opens at the Marriott Marquis theatre early next year. Warren Flynn will be programming the grandMA for lighting designer Don Holder, who is expecting to use almost 60 moving instruments, all controlled by the grandMA. Flynn chose the grandMA console due to the variety of new and powerful features which he would normally not have access to, such as full tracking backup via a network. Flynn, who is a relative newcomer to the grandMA, was philosophical on the subject of learning a new console: "Making a transition to a new console is never easy. However, with the help of AC Lighting it has been as painless as possible."

Bob Gordon of AC Lighting considers this a landmark in the evolution of the grandMA's popularity. He comented: "It's funny, but it has taken, almost to the month, the same amount of time to get the grandMA on to a Broadway show as it took us to get the Wholehog II onto a Broadway show a few years back. I guess it says a lot about the maturity of a product and its feature set."

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