The show's lighting was designed by Tom Kinane, who has used HSL to supply lights to numerous shows in recent years. HSL's project manager was Sean McGlone, who comments, "It's always good to work with Tom and his team. The show looked fantastic, interesting and different, and we're especially happy to be working on such a high profile new production."
Magic Numbers was presented by Stephen Mulhern, directed by Chris Power broadcast from The London Studios (TLS) on London's South Bank. Kinane's starting point for the lighting design was the vibrant set designed by Andrew Gates, based on a sequence of different shaped scenic light boxes.
HSL delivered the ChromaStrips to set builders Set Square in Mitcham, Surrey, where they were wired in to the scenic pieces by the show's senior technician Richard Jarvis, together with Chris Hyde and Daniel Kinane as they were built. This was an intense process that had to be finished in a very short time.
Once the set was installed in Studio 1 at TLS, Kinane worked on lighting it with a selection of fixtures including the 52 Vari*Lite VL3000s.
All the ChromaStrips and Vari*Lites were controlled by Max Conwell via his Chamsys MagicQ 100 Pro lighting desk. The conventionals and white lights were run by James Ashdown using TLS's ETC Congo console.
(Jim Evans)
