Ignacio Rosenberg stuck with some fixtures from the house rig at the BleauLive Theatre in Las Vegas in his light show for Marc Anthony’s first-ever Las Vegas residency.
“This is an excellent venue and from the very beginning my idea was to maximise the existing inventory in the house for the residency,” said Rosenberg. “It seemed like a misuse of finances to take the theatre’s properly appointed rig and empty it to put in a different properly appointed rig! We also had to load our first show in on the day it was scheduled to run, so making that transition as easy as possible was essential.”
Key to Rosenburg’s plans were the house rig’s 20 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorized strobes, which aided him in creating sizzling eye-candy during his client’s 90-minute show, featuring songs in Spanish and English with equal verve.
Rosenberg kept the Color STRIKE M fixtures in the same position they occupied in the house rig. “They looked great where they were,” he said. “Their trusses are raked in a way that actually left just enough space for us to trim out automated units in between and have them all be visible, which was a very happy coincidence when we walked in the theatre. With that in place I didn’t find that we had to move the Strike Ms at all to have them have the impact we wanted.
“We did a lot of work in previs, and actually in rehearsals we ran both previs with the house system and our replica “real life” rig to make sure that when we went in we were as dialled in as possible,” continued Rosenberg. “This way, we knew from the get-go that they were going to do what we wanted.”
Changing looks during the residency show, named Vegas My Way! Rosenberg endowed the production with a captivating vitality. He revealed his rig gradually, both in terms of size as well as scope.
For example, some of the moving trusses appear briefly in three songs, while others don’t come in until the second act. Rosenberg brought out his entire rig for the song My Way, then did so again for Vivir Mi Vida, which ends with a jam session, and a symphony of light with the Color STRIKE Ms playing their vivacious part.
