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H MontanaannahThe Best of Both Worlds Tour 2007/2008photo by michael a. beck24 Tour Guide Journal
demonium Aside,Still a Showby Michael A. BeckPick the most out of touch person on Earth that you canthink of and the chances are that even that person is familiarwith Hannah Montana and the media storm that has surroundedher this year. And while the biggest part of a storyhas nothing to do with the issues that TGJ focuses on, whichis ticket sales and scalping (unbelievable scalping), the storyis absolutely irresistible.Once the whole thing became apparent,two priorities became paramount:learn about Hannah Montana, somethingthat meant watching severalhours of the television show that airson the Disney Channel, and the otherwas, “Don’t miss this!”Going into the building to see amajor show like the Rolling Stonesor Madonna, there are some thingsthat can be safely anticipated beforeyou walk in. You know the music and you know it’sgoing to be big. It was apparent that this show wasgoing to be big by the fact that there were 16 trucksclose to that same amount of busses.As one can expect, security was very tight, butonce in the building, the crew and managementteam treated us with courtesy that is not alwaysseen when we are taking a look at a show. Theminute we came in the door we were met by TourManger/Accountant Dan McGee who gave a fairlyextensive walking tour of the production. Next wasProduction Manger Omar Abderrahman who wenteven deeper with his tour.There is no way we were ready for what we saw.Nocturne got the video call on this and did it upwith the punch that one would expect. The stagehad multi-levels with video everywhere.The high-res video displayswere three V9 walls. One displaymade up the front wall of thesix foot high drum riser that wasupstage right and looked to be about8 feet tall. There was a smaller onethat was flown behind atall riser thatperformers used during the show.Then there was a 24” x 24 squareV9 wall that was flown upstagecenter.Here’s where the video portion of the show gotreally interesting. In addition to the V9, there werefive low-res video cubes that flew around the stage.The three visible faces of the cubes were made upof MiPIX, which is the most recent Barco release.The cubes were comprised of two large tubular aluminumframe pieces (one top and one bottom) thatgave the cube its basic shape. There was bracing inbetween the header and footer that kept it all sturdyand the MiPIX strips were attached in vertical falls.Ancillary rigging points were hung in the house forthe purpose of building the structures as all partsof them had to be hung from the headers until theycould be braced and made rigid enough to land.Then they were placed on dollies and rolled intoposition under the grid before the stage was placedand flown for the show.Tour Guide Journal 25
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