Round and round

It's been hugely busy for all of us in the last couple of months... I've spent September in Johannesburg as LD for the country's new production of Cats, which came after a great few weeks in South Korea as associate LD on the new touring production of Jekyll and Hyde, which also gave our ESP vision system a good workout.

Most recently, however, the entire Mandylights team has been in the USA for a series of corporate events. I'm sitting in Las Vegas' Palazzo hotel this week lighting everything from showgirls to magic shows and corporate presentations. Tonight, we're off to one of my favourite clubs in the city for the Club Night. Sometimes my job is pretty hard...

Back in Sydney next week and looking forward to a busy festive season

rich

Been a while

Bit of a case of 'no news is good news' recently at Mandylights... I think we've all been so busy that nobody's had time to even think about the website, but I promise we'll get some updates done in the next little while.

The boys are still chugging along with Starlight Express in New Zealand and about to finish what has been a highly successful run of around 40 shows in arenas around the country. Closer to home, it's been great for us to be a part of the English touring production of Cats as it returns home for a brief run at QPAC in Brisbane before it heads off into China for the rest of the year.

In my little corner of the world, I've been traveling a fair bit and Monday sees me off to Seoul to program a new production of Jekyll and Hyde - The Musical for designer Nigel Levings. This begins my regular annual disappearing act around the world which will see me in South Africa and US as well before the year is out.

We've lit a bunch of great smaller shows in the last few weeks and are frantically planning for some really exciting upcoming projects.... business is booming!

rich

Full steam ahead!

Sorry for the lame title, but we're all having a heap of fun in Wellington, New Zealand this week for the first bump in of Starlight Express, which Mandylights is supplying lighting direction, crewing and equipment for as the show tours for the next few months.

The show has a spectacular lighting design by Howard Eaton and we're working with the associate designer, Stu Stacy here in New Zealand to get the show up and running. With over 100 moving lights and 120 scrollers, the show has more than enough toys to keep our four man crew busy.

We'll put some photos up soon....

rich

More traveling

Howdy all from the tiny islands of Fiji - where I've been working on a couple of events for the last week. I can honestly say the Fijians we've been working and staying with have been some of the most dedicated, caring and fun people to work with anywhere in the world. Big thanks to Adam and Staging Connections this week as well who provided gear for us... those in the industry will appreciate how much easier a job becomes when everyone is on the same side and working together. It's been an absolute pleasure to be involved with the events and I really can't wait to get back on holiday or on business soon.

I'm now going to enjoy a whopping 48hrs back in Sydney before heading off to New Zealand for a week on Tuesday.

Hopefully I get a chance to catch up with some friends and colleagues in the next little while when all this calms down!

Rich

Mandy's All Shook Up

Hello Mandy followers over the past two weeks i have been Lighting the Knox Grammar School musical All Shook Up. Its a great show directed by Mr Charles Hambling. Lighting wise i tried to highlight the huge set elements designed by Tom Bannerman. The set was inspired by the 1950's vinal Record and encorporates this huge archway resembling a Jukebox that i have filled with LED. I havent taken any photos as yet but I will post some on the website in the next week!

Almost three

Mandylights (as a concept) turns three in a fortnight... it's pretty cool how much we've accomplished in the first three years and we're looking forward to many more ahead of us. Might add a bit more to that later on this month.

Dan and I have had a great time experimenting on a new play Picasso at the Lapin Agile which we've been lighting in Sydney. We created a design based around heaps of hanging lamp shades and the play opened last night with everyone loving it. I'll put some photos up soon.

The second half of the year is almost upon us and with it comes the prospect of more travel than we can handle.... in the coming weeks you'll find us in Brisbane, all over New Zealand, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Shanghai, Beijing and more... and that's just the stuff we know about!

See you soon.... somewhere!

rich

A Busy Week

This week's been flat out for all of us - when I haven't been really sick I've been lighting the massive Presence Conference at Sydney's Convention and Exhibition Centre and also making sure the launch of Australia's Next Top Model looked as hot as the models did on the catwalk. Dan's been lighting the Australian Children's Choir and the continuing Peace Train tour which went through Sydney last weekend.

Mike's been over at the Vogue Magazine Fashion week launch, setting the scene for a week of fashion-week related events for us next week. There'll be lots of clothes, lots of beautiful people and lots of champagne. Looking forward to it!

rich