"Wicked Tour Productions has been pleased with the equipment provided by Tomcat, so it just made sense for them to continue using the gear that has been working so well thus far," explained Brad Barnhill, US sales manager for Tomcat USA. "Our design team understands the challenging requirements for touring Broadway shows and has produced customized concepts and drawings derived from the innovative, very popular Swing Wing truss for both Wicked tours. Our fabricators always step up to meet an impossible delivery schedule time and time again."
As with the original touring production, Wicked Tour Productions asked Tomcat USA to manufacture a 132' custom version span of Tomcat Swing Wing truss. The span comes in three sections, each measuring 36" x 30" X 44'. The second touring set also needed four sets of lighting towers, as well as a cyc' boom and cyc' trusses. Each tower is 25" x 30", with heights ranging from 15ft to 25ft and the set of cyc' booms and cyc' trusses are 18" x 24" wide towers created to house strip lights - the towers vary in height from 22.5ft to 29ft tall. All of these items were shipped to PRG Lighting in New Jersey, to be fitted with electrics before the tour's next stop in Los Angeles.
(Lee Baldock)
