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VL2600 Profile provides essential answers for Jack the Ripper musical


VL2600 Profiles on Jack The Ripper at Copenhagen’s Folketeatret, with lighting design by Mikkel Bedsted.
 
Image Credit:
© Ole Overgaard

Copenhagen, Denmark – In Lighting Musicaltreatret’s Jack the Ripper musical at Copenhagen’s intimate Folketeatret (People’s Theatre) lighting designer Mikkel Bedsted faced some major lighting challenges. He found his solutions in the new VL2600 Profile, the versatile, feature-rich LED stage luminaire from Vari-Lite, a Signify entertainment lighting brand.

Bredsted’s main challenge was the venue’s limited weight loading. With the small venue’s fly bars able to support only 125kg, it became essential that his lighting fixtures were lightweight and compact in size. Versatility was also a crucial factor, as the more functions a single fixture could fulfill, the fewer units would be needed overall. Next as the show’s designer, operator, and sole lighting technician. Bedsted required maximum reliability. And, of course, he needed quality performance – including high output, excellent optics, and advanced theatre lighting features.

fortunately, through supplier Live company, Bedsted sourced 14 of the new compact, lightweight and featured-packed VL2600 Profiles from Vari-Lite. He placed five on each of the front stage and upstage overhead lighting bars, plus four in the front light positions. “The VL2600 is my workhorse fixture on this show”, he says. “With its power and zoom range, I can use it as a wash light, a profile and a spot. The big feature for me is to get that much output from such a a relatively small light.”

Bedsted values the VL2600’s theatre friendly features, including colour temperature control. ” The CTO wheel is really, really nice to have.” he says. ” I don’t think I could have lit this show without the CTO wheel. I use it a lot in my transitions of time and place.”

The designer also frequently uses the internal framing shutter and top-hat mechanism to shape and guide his light. “Vari-Lite have always been famous for their shuttering modules,” he says. “I use the framing a lot. Sometimes we have actors walking out into the auditorium. and I use the framing to cut out stage areas and keep the focus on the action.”

Commenting on the VL2600’s light quality, he says, “I can achieve the colours that I want and the skin tones, and many different costumes, but the VL2600 is always up to the job. The quality is great.”

Using relatively few fixtures, Bedsted’s lighting design succeeds in creating a close atmosphere, with convincing interiors and smooth transitions, defining time and place while powerfully enhancing the show’s dark themes.

He concludes, “The details in the Vari-Lite make it a better choice for theatre. I will definitely use them again.”

VL2600 Profiles on Jack The Ripper at Copenhagen’s Folketeatret, with lighting design by Mikkel Bedsted.
 
Image Credit:
© Ole Overgaard


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