My Fair Lady Comes Home

White Light and The Moving Light Company have been selected to supply the lighting equipment to the West End transfer of Trevor Nunn's acclaimed Royal National Theatre production of the classic musical My Fair Lady. The production, which stars Martine McCutcheon and Jonathan Pryce, opened at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in March to critical acclaim. It will return to its original West End home, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in July: the original production of the show held the record as the longest-running show at that theatre until its achievement was finally beaten by Miss Saigon, which also used lighting equipment from White Light.

The lighting for the new production of My Fair Lady is designed by David Hersey, making his return to musical theatre lighting after his 18-month sojourn sailing around the world. For the Drury Lane production, Hersey, his associate Jenny Kagan and production electrician Alistair Grant, are slightly re-working the rig used at the National Theatre. Equipment supplied by White Light includes ETC Source Four profile spots, Par cans, Wybron CXI colour changers, Rainbow colour scrollers, Iris-4 floodlighting and VSFX projectors and effects. The Moving Light Company is supplying 27 DHA Digital Light Curtains (a mixture of six- and eight-lamp units). Control is from a Strand 500 series console.

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