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GHOST The Musical

Joel Rubin's Academy Award winning script has been transposed from the silver screen to the Great White Way. Direct from the West End, director Matthew Warchus presides over the mysterious happenings at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre. Sound Designer Bobby Aiken with associates Garth Helm and Simon King bring the supernatural to life through Meyer Melodie and D&B E3 speaker systems managed by Digico SD7, and Digico SD8 consoles. Video Designer Jon Driscoll continues to stun audiences with indescribable projections using Panasonic projectors and Catalyst media servers.

EVITA

Playing to SRO audiences this British import survived a flooded orchestra pit from the Marquis deluge curtain, missing only two performances thanks to the fast reaction of the crew and shop staff. A Digico SD8 console, Meyer Melodie and UPJ speakers and a plethora of studio microphones were replaced within twelve hours averting a near disaster. Sound Designer Mick Potter and A1 George Huckins managed to stay calm during the episode restoring the two hundred Meyer and D&B loudspeakers to their original brilliance for vocal star Rickie Martin.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Sound Designer Steve Kennedy has turned the Neil Simon Theatre into a magnificent audio tabernacle for Andrew Lloyd Weber's other new Broadway spectacle. Latching 48 Sennheiser SK5212/3532 wireless microphones to his Digico SD7, Steve and associate designer Walter Trarbach bathe the audience with the gospel according to Sir Lloyd Webber through two dozen Meyer Mica curvilinear line arrays.

THE GERSHWINS' PORGY & BESS

Audra McDonald's pipes are in fine tune at the Richard Rogers Theatre and Sound Designer Nevin Steinberg doesn't miss a note of this famous Broadway Opera. Tales of the suspected difficulties bringing this classic opera, re-created specifically for Broadway audiences, have been overstated. Nevin deftly mixes the new jazz-oriented orchestrations with Audra's powerful soprano on a Digico SD7 Console through Meyer Melodie arrays.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

Another National Theatre of Great Britain import makes its way across the Pond to the Music Box Theatre. Keep 'em laughing is the motto of Sound Designer Paul Arditti and Associate Designer John Owens who specified a Digico SD8-24 console and Meyer Mina line arrays to reinforce the One Man's hilarious schemes to keep the Two Guvnors apart. A live onstage Skiffle band provides musical accompaniment for the antics that follow.

BEST MAN

Gore Vidal's landmark 1960 play about politics, backstabbing, and dirty tricks arrives back on Broadway with an electrifying revival directed by Michael Wilson at the Schoenfeld theatre. Sound Designer and Composer John Gromada provides the aural soundscape for an all-star cast including James Earl Jones, Angela Landsbury, and John Larrouquette. A1 Wayne Smith mixes DPA and Sennheiser microphones with a Yamaha DM-1000 console and a full complement of Meyer loudspeakers.

CLYBOURNE PARK

Pulitzer prize winning actor/author Bruce Norris arrives on Broadway with a piece of crackling drama set in the Chicago neighborhood of Clybourne Park. A clever piece of theatre set in dual time periods of 1959 and 2009, the same house sees transitions from one family to the next. Sound Designer John Gromada, associate Chris Cronin, and A1 Ed Chapman bring Chicago to 48th st with a combination of Qlab Software, Yamaha processing and Meyer UPA-1P speakers.

OTHER DESERT CITIES

New York favorite Jon Robin Baitz arrives on Broadway at long last with this Lincoln Center Theatre production. Directed by Joe Mantello, and starring Stockard Channing and Stacey Keach, Sound Designer Jill B. C. DuBoff has outfitted the Booth theatre with a Meyer UPA-1P main rig, augmented by EAW delays and surrounds. System processing is handled by XTA 448's and digital signal infrastructure is provided by Riedel's Rock-net system.

WAR HORSE

This spectacular National Theatre production at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre under the auspices of Lincoln Center Theatre, won the 2011 Tony Award for Best Play. Sound Associates provided the audio and video systems for designers Chris Shutt (sound) and Fifty Nine Productions (video). The sound system consists of an all d&b Audiotechnick system featuring arrays and point source boxes from the Q, T, and E series. Production Sound Engineer Mark Salzberg commands a new Digico SD7 console to mix the Sennheiser RF and QLab audio playback. Video playback is handled by DMX-slaved Catalyst servers driving an array of Panasonic DLP projectors.

PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT

From the land down under comes the musical comedy with a heart. PRISCELLA tells the tale of three friends and a road trip to the middle of nowhere. This critically acclaimed production is moving from the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto to the Palace Theatre on Broadway. Sound Designers Jonathan Deans and Peter Fitzgerald ordered a stop at Sound Associates' Yonkers production facility for a Palace re-fit of the Meyer Mica and M'elody curvilinear line arrays. Kudos to A1 Steve Henshaw for an outstanding job in Toronto mixing on the new Midas XL8.