Beauty and the Beast

This year, my high school chose to produce Disney’s Beauty and the Beast for our annual fall musical (the biggest production of the year). I received the official role of Lighting Designer for the show. Given that the unique set design was constantly changing, with any given set piece rarely in the same place twice (and the fact that we didn’t have any gel scrollers or intelligent fixtures), it was a challenge to implement my vision for each scene.

I eventually ended up using every decent lighting fixture we had, nearly every lighting circuit, and over 15 two-fers. In total, the lighting inventory used was:

8x Source Four Jr. 36°
8x Source Four Jr. 26°
2x Source Four Jr. Zoom
1x Source Four 90°
1x Source Four 36°
12x Source Four 26°
4x Source Four 19°
12x Strand SL36
14x Strand SL26
4x Altman 175Q fresnel
12x Altman 165Q fresnel
8x Altman 65Q fresnel
5x generic 6” Altman fresnel
22x S4 PAR WFL
6x S4 PARnel
6x Altman Sky Cyc
1x Altman 360Q 6x12

Date

Fall 2011

Skills Used

Lighting Design
Drafting

I am

Erik Swan