In Romania, West Side Story has been adapted by choreographer and show director Razvan Mazilu to be presented at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS) for the organisation Uniter - Theatre Union of Romania.
SGM's Romanian partner FIVE'S International supplied a SGM package consisting of 12 x SixPack blinders, four P-5 wash lights and two G-Spot moving heads. For the outer theatre building, the IP65-rated Q-7 RGBW flood lights were deployed for architectural illumination.
Lighting designer Alin Popa reports, "We needed the clean colours of the P-5, the fine dimming of the SixPack, the power of the G-Spot and its large pallet of colour temperature control settings. The SGM equipment did most of the show. It's the biggest musical in Romania and I worked with the fixtures for a week - on average 20 hours a day. The fixtures are wonderful. The two G-Spots were used for contre-jour for their generous zoom and CTC. I ran the G-Spots in Silent Mode so I didn't even hear them during operation."
The popular musical show embraced Romania's young generation of talent, allowing 21 actors the opportunity to perform professionally in a large-scale production, which proved highly well-received by the audience.
(Jim Evans)
