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Clay Paky Mythos used for “Best Time Ever” TV show

Clay Paky Mythos used for “Best Time Ever” TV show
Clay Paky Mythos used for “Best Time Ever” TV show

For the eight-episode “Best Time Ever” live variety series on NBC, headlined by Neil Patrick Harris, Lighting designer Matt Ford of Magic Lantern Creations in Woodland Hills, California selected Clay Paky Mythos fixtures for the rig. 

 

Ford says the production design resembled an awards show set with a main area at center stage and performance areas at stage left and stage right. “You could have something going on in the center while we prelit something else on another stage,” he notes. “The ability to set up different things while something else was going on was key for a live show.”

 

Ford obtained about 40 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures from PRG. Lighting director Craig Casserta, who also programmed “Best Time Ever,” calls Mythos “the workhorse of the show”. Ford mounted Mythos overhead in the rig for Sharpy-style beam effects and gobo effects. “We also had them on the floor for ballyhoos and animated gobo effects during bumpers,” he says. “Plus, we used them as fill lights for a lot of on-stage interviews when the lights overhead were too steep.”

 

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