Inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, the American Broadway
musical West Side story has been successful ever since its production start in the
50s.
In Romania, West Side Story has been adapted by choreographer and show director
Razvan Mazilu to be presented at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS) for
the organisation Uniter – Theatre Union of Romania.
SGM’s Romanian partner FIVE’S International supplied a SGM package consisting of
12 x SixPack blinders, 4 x P-5 wash lights and 2 x G-Spot moving heads. For the
outer theatre building, the IP65-rated Q-7 RGBW flood lights were deployed for
architectural illumination.
Lighting designer Alin Popa reports: “We needed the clean colours of the P-5, the
fine dimming of the SixPack, the power of the G-Spot and its large pallet of colour
temperature control settings. The SGM equipment did most of the show. It’s the
biggest musical in Romania and I worked with the fixtures for a week – on average
20 hours a day. The fixtures are wonderful. The two G-Spots were used for contre-
jour for their generous zoom and CTC. I ran the G-Spots in Silent Mode so I didn’t
even hear them during operation.’
The Silent Mode of the G-Spot is one of the moving heads four fan settings for quiet
operation to accommodate especially theatre and opera applications, where fan
control and silent operation is essential.
The popular musical show embraced Romania’s young generation of talents,
allowing 21 actors the opportunity to perform professionally in a large-scale
production, which proved highly well-received by the audience.
