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Elation lights Floyd Central High School production of “Newsies”

Elation lights Floyd Central High School production of “Newsies”
Elation lights Floyd Central High School production of “Newsies”

Southern Indiana’s Floyd Central High School puts a special emphasis on the performing arts, a focus that has produced one of America's premiere high school theatre programs. Last year, Floyd Central was one of a handful of schools across the U.S. selected by Disney Theatrical Group to test the Broadway musical “Newsies” before it is made available to schools everywhere.

 

“Newsies” ran at the high school, located in Floyds Knobs, last November, selling out all six performances. Lighting industry pro and Floyd Central alumnus Michael Nevitt of Crossfade Design, LLC served as lighting designer and lighting mentor on the production.

 

Nevitt had at his disposal a house rig of Elation fixtures that the school purchased in 2015 from Phoenix Lighting of Louisville, Kentucky. The package consists of LED-based Arena Q7 Zoom PAR wash lights and Platinum Spot 5R Pro moving heads, along with Colour Chorus 48 LED batten wash lights and white-light Cuepix Blinder WW2 lights. For “Newsies,” Nevitt added to the rig Elation Artiste DaVinci LED moving head spots and Elation Emotion moving head digital lights.

 

Working from three overhead electrics, the DaVinci fixtures were used as fill light on top of platforms for specials and for gobo texture onto the stage floor. The Emotion digital lights - a plug-and-play DMX moving light with on-board media server - filled the show’s projection needs, for example to project scrolling headline news onto a chalk board and other visual tasks.

 

The designer spread the Arena Q7 Zoom wash lights across three overhead electrics for backlight and downlight wash with more fixtures on three booms for low side light. Also working from the three electrics were Platinum Spot 5R Pro moving heads used as specials and for gobo pattern projections.

 

The 4-foot long Colour Chorus 48 LED batten wash lights played a role as backdrop lighting while the Cuepix Blinder WW2s were used more as work lights during rehearsals, according to the LD. Floyd Central High School’s Director of Theatre Arts, Robbie Steiner, directed the production.

 

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Elation lights Floyd Central High School production of “Newsies”Elation lights Floyd Central High School production of “Newsies”

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