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Philadelphia, PA-based Sapsis Rigging, led by lighting designer Elizabeth Geldhof, designed lighting and provided production consulting services for Morumbi Fashions in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the marathon event included 18 different fashion shows presented in a span of five days. In other Sapsis news, the company rigged two tents in New York's Bryant Park which served as the venue for fashion shows for JKLD Lighting and BLT Productions, and SRI>Show Division, a subsidiary of Sapsis, supplied full production services for a Victoria's Secret fashion show and rigging, scenery, and lighting for 7th on 6th at the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Library; all these activities were held during Fashion Market Week in early spring....Strand Lighting desks are now installed in venues throughout London's South Bank landmark area, appearing in the National Theatre complex (including the Cottesloe and Lyttelton Theatres) and Royal Festival Hall's Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. RNT staffers chose the Strand desks after touring the Far East, US, and "Australasia" with a Strand 520 portable desk; meanwhile, David Howe of White Light, one of Strand's trading partners, recommended a 650-channel Strand 530i for the Queen Elizabeth Hall and a 250-channel 520i for the Purcell Room. In addition, Strand is involved in installations at Sadler's Wells (via Northern Light) and Royal Exchange Manchester (through Stage Electrics) in England and at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Sweden, where Strand's Swedish distributor Oscar Lighting supplied a large quantity of Brio 18/30 BE fixtures....Ravenswood Studio, Inc. of Chicago constructed an 118"-tall, wood-and-sculpted-foam scale model of a Bissell Lift-Off vacuum for the 1999 Housewares Show in Chicago....Space Cannon Electronic Engineering illuminated a 46-story bank building, the Banco Colpratria tower, in Bogota, Colombia, for a grand opening ceremony. Thirty-six Set Ireos 3,000W and 4,000W fixtures installed on the top of the building projected the colors of the Colombian flag; each fixture's dichroic lenses were specially coated to create and match the colors....When the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Tennessee decided to revamp its audio system recently, they turned to Allied Sound, Inc., a local audio installation company, which installed two Telex(R) Merlin(TM) ISP-100 signal processors, Electro-Voice P1250 and 1.0kW amps and loudspeakers, a DDA CS3 16-channel console, and a Vega U20 100-channel "frequency-agile" UHF wireless system; Wilson Audio Sales of Nashville supplied the equipment. Two related items: Merlin signal processors were also installed in Boston's Wang Center and Shubert Theatre by Boston Light & Sound; and more than 50 Electro-Voice theatre speakers were installed for this year's Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, UT. Boston Light & Sound installed the systems.... Autograph Sound of London is the principal sound and communications supplier for the current West End hit, a revival of Oklahoma! at the Lyceum Theatre (a recent transfer from the National Theatre). Sound designer for Oklahoma! is Paul Grothuis, who specified a 32-channel Sennheiser 1046 diversity radio mic system, a J-Type mixing console, two digital Yamaha 02Rs and one 03D, and a variety of D&B and Meyer Sound loudspeakers....Stage Accompany, the Dutch manufacturer of professional sound systems, was chosen to supply sound equipment for Teatro Sao Pedro in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Jose Nepomuceno of Acustica & Sonica was consultant on the project; he specified the FOH, monitor, and surround system consisting of eight Performer P27 mid-high cabinets, eight bass B15 cabinets, four Entertainer E24 cabinets, two PR3 amp racks (with six PPA 1200 amps), four SA 1600 amps, four SA2310 graphic equalizers, four Leader L24 floor monitors, and two Champ full-range cabinets....Lighting designer Jennifer Tipton is working on an opening-night salute to Jerome Robbins at Paris' Opera Garnier.... Libor, the Brazilian distributor of Klark Teknik and Midas products, supplied Midas XL250 consoles to the Sao Paulo-based PA rental company Slagauts and Sunshine Eventos, another Brazilian PA rental company that plans to use the XL250 for summer festivals. In other Midas news, London-based Britannia Row supplied five Midas LX3 boards and a Midas XL4 console to the annually televised Brit Awards, held at the London Arena in February....For Dames at Sea, a revival of the 60s musical that showed at San Francisco's Marine Memorial Theatre, Michael Bottari and Ronald Case won 1998 Dean Goodman Choice Awards, formerly known as the Drama-Logue Awards, for the set and costume design (including projections). Dames at Sea ran all last summer to good reviews; the set and costumes were built by the Studio Arena Theatre shops, where the musical originated....In Bariloche, Argentina, Rocket, one of the largest and trendiest discos in the Andean Cordillera mountains, opened its doors for the winter ski season with a new sound system consisting of Apogee 3x3s, C-3s, AE-5s, AE-11s, and AE-15s, all powered with DA amps and AmpNET software. In other Apogee news, Cafe Iguana Cantina and the Martini Bar in Miami feature Apogee equipment installed by Infinite Audio, and one of the world's largest amplified systems, due to be installed in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, employs 325 Apogee DA-1200 amplifiers and 50 Apogee spare amp substitution switches, all operating under computer control. Los Angeles-based contractor Acromedia developed a user interface for the system and assembled and tested the system at its facility in Southern California before shipping it out...Texas-based LD Systems contracted with Shell when the oil and gas company opened its first themed retail store, called Encompass, in the Galleria Mall. LD Systems provided EAW speakers, Fujitsu Plasmavision A/V systems with Dolby digital audio surround, Toshiba videowalls, and automated lighting from High End Systems in the four sections of the store....A division of the BBC devoted to upgrading the company's digital broadcasting systems recently purchased 52 Drawmer DF320 Noise Filters for use in the studio as well as in-field applications....