Carousel 2013

Carousel 2013
Carousel Creative Director Andrew Panton Musical Director Simon Beck Choreographer Emily-Jane Boyle Set Designer Alex Lowde Lighting Designer Simon Wilkinson Sound Designer Blair Omond Stats Venue New Athenaeum Tech February-March 2013 Performance Dates 21st-23rd March 2013

Carousel marks the second year of the large scale musical theatre performance within the Conservatoire.

Company

Creative Team

Director: Andrew Panton

Musical Director: Simon Beck

Choreographer: Emily-Jane Boyle

Associate Director: Susie Dumbreck

Set Designer: Alex Lowde

Lighting Designer: Simon Wilkinson

Sound Designer: Blair Omond

Projection Designer: Tim Reid

Technical Production Team

Stage Manager: Jack Hirst

Deputy Stage Manager: Amber McClelland

Assistant Stage Management:

Technical Stage Manager: Rebecca Coull

Chief Flyperson:

Stage Technicians:

Chief Electrician: Neil Foulis

Deputy Electrician: Audrey Wilson

Sound Designer/ Sound Number 1: Blair Omond

Sound Number 2: Laura Dougan

Lighting Operator: Audrey Wilson

Electricians:

AV Operator: Robert Butler

Sopt Operators: Keiran Fitzpatrick & Shannon Howard

Electrics

LX Photos

LX Equipment

Generic Lamps

• SL 15-32 - 21
• SL 19* - 12
• SL 23-50 - 20
• SL 26* - 8
• 1.2K Fresnel - 33
• 1.2K PC - 2
• 2K Fresnel - 11
• 5K Fresnel - 1
• PAR 64 - 30 (10 CP 61, 20 CP 62)
• S4 PAR - 1
• Birdies - 11
• Coda FLood - 28
• Orion Groundrow - 8

Special Lighting Effects

• Vari Lite 1000 tsd - 4
• Reiche and Vogul Beamlights - 2
• Le Maitre MVS Hazer - 1
• Festoon 15M - 1

Festoon

Festoon was used to create a circus atmosphere, Because this was handled by the cast, it was required to be shatterproof. it took 30 x 40 Watt pearl Shatterproof bulbs for one 15M length of festoon.

These Bulbs were bought from a supplier called Covershield.

Lightbulb Halo

The Lightbulb Halo was a main part of the set, as it was the main element representing the Carousel.

My task was to wire up all 80 Lightbulbs in 4 circuits, so it could chase and look as though they were all chasing round the ring.

Firstly I found out the measurement between bulbs, (I used my Vectorworks plan to do this) and then made a template, see below.

I then laid out all the fittings where they go on the ring, and began wiring.

This was wired in Parallel, Each Live, and Neutral went in to the live and neutral points, and then out, and on to the next one. see explanation on Parallel wiring.

Final wiring in 4 circuits

Booms

all of the stage booms required to sit in line with the edge of the fly floor

unfortunately this meant they were sitting on the ramp up to the stage, So to solve this problem, we built small anti rakes to sit under the boom bases.

3 of the booms were to be 7 metres high, this was relatively easy to achieve, the 7M pole was tied to the fly floor, making them very rigid.