Live Design's fourth annual 31 Days Of Plots features one production per day during the month of December 2021, highlighting a different lighting design, from across theatre, concert tours, corporate events, live for broadcast, and more, as we wind down 2021 and head toward the new year.
Day 3 of 31 Days Of Plots 2021 focuses on Toby Keith: Country Comes To Town. "What was planned in the fall of 2019 to be an arena-sized show for the towns that never get the shows became, in 2021, the show that was going to lead the charge back everywhere," says Seth Jackson of Darkroom Creative, who shares production design credit with his partner Nathan Alves. Country Comes to Town became the first major production show back on the road. Toby was determined to get out there strategically and safely with a full arena show in tact. Country definitely came to town. Big stage, big show, big artist, and big audiences that came back in droves when nobody was quite certain they would. The entire design was built around getting a big look out of a few pieces. We tried to be very clever in thinking of the possibility of labor and local crew shortages so that the show would assemble with relative ease."
Credits:
Production Design: Seth Jackson, Nathan Alves
Lighting Director: Eddie “Bones” Connell
Tour Manager: David Milam
Production Manager: Tommy TJ Benton
Stage Manager: Adam Fenn
Video Director: John Hurley
Video: Ma@ Mays, Natalia Pena, Paul McNeill
Lighting: Jake Riddell, Nikki Dotson, Carter Hopkins
Lighting Company: Bandit Lites
Video Company: MooTV
Staging Company: Gallagher Staging
Gear list:
15 GLP JDC-1 Strobe
14 Chauvet Nexus 4x4 panels
10 Elation Cue Pix WW4
16 Chauvet Rogue R2X wash
6 Chauvet Maverick MK3 Spot
18 Robe Pointes
2 grandMA2 consoles
1 disguise media server w/ NOTCH
175 Triton 5.9mm LED Tiles
Related story:
The Road To LDI2021: Q&A With Seth Jackson
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