Tommy
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The Who's Tommy
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The Who's Tommy is the first large scale Musical Theatre Production at the Conservatoire, taking place
Company
Creative Team
Director: Andrew Panton
Musical Director: Simon Beck
Choreographer: Emily-Jane Boyle
Associate Director: Michael Howell
Set Designer: Becky Minto
Lighting Designer: Simon Wilkinson
Projection Designer: Kim Beveridge
Technical Production Team
Stage Manager: Sarah Wilson
Deputy Stage Manager: Samantha Burt
Assistant Stage Management: Rosie Barber, Kat Douglas, Oran O'Neill
Technical Stage Manager: Iain Jolly
Assistant Technical Stage Managers: Melissa MacDonald, John Beggan
Chief Flyperson: Rebecca Coull
Stage Technicians: Chris McIntyre, Sam Cunningham
Chief Electrician: Fraser Walker
Deputy Electrician: Chris Gowling
Sound Designer/ Sound Number 1: Jonathan Towers
Sound Number 2: Graeme Brown
Lighting Operator: Audrey Wilson
Electricians: Sean Hind, Sam Barker, Patrick Watson, Elleanor Taylor
Cast
Technical
TSM Groundplan
Tommy: How we flew the truss
One of the challenges in Tommy was the truss, there were 2 spans, one at 9m long, one at 7m. Ideally we would have flown it straight off the automation; the truss was strong enough (see diagram 1) but the overall weight would have been too close to the automation’s SWL of 200kg per winch (2 winches per truss).
We decided to fly the truss off 2 cw bars, with 7m stingers. Once this assembly was rigged we attached a single automation line to the truss, underweighted the cw bars so the automation was only taking 30/40kg rather than the whole load.
At this point we left the counterweight brakes off, and taped up so that the only control was from the automation. We were then able to program a number of moves into the automation desk which were executable by one operator, rather than four flymen.
