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L.D. Donald E. Thomas lights up 'Magic Flute'
At the end of April I was in Milwaukee, designing The Magic Flute for the Florentine Opera Company. The set was a series of large platforms that formed an arch and a cave, and also included a rear projection screen and Pani projector to create sky effects. All that was fine and good, but there was nothing with the show to create the effects for the 'tests' of fire and water in the second act.
TwinSpins to the rescue! I used a total of eight Source IV units with TwinSpins mounted on the floor upstage of the rear projection booth, shooting downstage. I used four for the test of fire (all fast speed) with a variety of split gel GamColors, and the other four TwinSpins (1 fast, three slow) for the water effect. The equipment, including GAM Patterns was supplied by SUN LIGHTING of Milwaukee. The effects all worked quite well. The two singers would exit into a cave where the effect was coming from, and then disappear for a few seconds. Then a 2nd pair of performers (dressed in matching costumes) entered upstage of the rear projection screen, we saw their silhouette on the screen. At the end of the test the effect would fade out and the singers re-enter from the cave. Worked beautifully!
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