The show also includes 10 HES Studio Command 700 automated wash luminaires. "The Studio Commands are super. With their full beam, they're like little sky trackers. I will have them in play again next year," adds Fallon.
The production looks big but in reality is a one-truck show with a small crew. Fallon says production manager Bill Farris enjoys having the DL.2s in the show "for their cost-effectiveness" and because the DL.2s combine lighting with video effects, it allows the small crew to offer so much more in their production looks.
"It allows us to do the tour with only two people rather than with a video crew of four or five people," Fallon says. "The Powers That Be can equate it with dollars and cents, everything from fuel costs to local crew costs. That's how the DL.2s come into play. We also need a package like this that takes us to a variety of venues, from state fairs to casino showrooms."
(Jim Evans)
