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CONGRATULATIONS TO SCOTT LERHER (Best Sound Design - Musical "South Pacific") and MIC POOL (Best Sound Design - Play "The 39 Steps"). The first-ever Tony Awards for Sound Design. | ||
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NINE to FIVE The 1980 movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton will have a new World Premier as a musical comedy opening at the Ahamanson Theatre, L.A. September 21st. The musical written by Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick will be directed by the veteran Joe Mantello. A1 Dan Tramon ("Movin'Out") will head the sound crew for designer John Shivers ("Tarzan", "The Little Mermaid"). Under the direction of David Patridge, the shop build begins June 23rd with some new exclusive open architecture rack hardware for the d&b amplifiers and FOH processing. Dan will mix on a Yamaha PM1D with a monitor surface and 48 channel Sennheiser wireless rig attended by Ahmanson sound department head Bob Smith. Broadway opening is scheduled for early 2009. | ||
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A TALE of TWO CITIES "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Dickens' historical novel about injustice, vengeance and the redemptive power of love has been turned into a musical by Jill Santoriello. Scheduled to open September 18th at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, sound designers Domonic Sack and Carl Casella are putting the finishing touches on the complicated design for the 1400 seat theatre. The first Midas XL8 Digital Mixer on a Broadway show will be operated by A1 Ty Lackey. Meyer M'elodie and M2D Curvilinear Line Arrays are the mains with a robust d&b 7.1 surround system. Sound Associates will be featuring Q-Manager Plus Show Control bundled with Wave Lab in the on site editing suite. | ||
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DIRTY DANCING This European mega-hit begins a national tour in Chicago in August. The Toronto production is still running strong and sound designer Bobby Aitken ("Mamma Mia") has modified his loudspeaker specifications to incorporate Meyer Sound's M'elodie Curvilinear Line Arrays and d&b EO-LS surround boxes. A1 Bill Ruger will be mixing on a DigiCo D5T Digital Mixer with redundant engines and D1 monitor surface. Sound Associates is also providing the video package for designer Jon Driscol which includes a Lighthouse P-10 Video Wall and a pair of Digital 22k lumen projectors with content streams from four redundant Catalyst video servers. | ||
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GOING GREEN This summer Sound Associates will install 150 Akeena Solar Andalay panels on the roof of their production center in Yonkers, NY. The solar panels will contribute up to 20% of the annual energy consumed by the center. The system is expandable to 300 panels delivering a total annual output of 52,000 kWh/yr. Over a 30 year period the panels will generate clean electricity that reduces atmospheric emissions of CO2 by 1,250,000 pounds equal the absorption rate of 16 acres of trees. | ||
