To insure that no one would ever be able to notice the slightest difference in “white” we used a program that Mike Woods had created for random color changing that he called a “cloud” program. JR Clancy and Mike Woods Consulting were awarded 2009 ESTA’s “Rock our World” for theatrical technical innovation.īack in 2007, LEDs were not consistent in color no matter the quality. Looking at these photos of all the machinery for raising, lowering and housing the chandelier, one can appreciate all the effort that had to be made by all trades to house the chandelier. Scott developed the 6’ acrylic rods with the RGBW LED heads on them, and Mike Woods developed the control system and programming of the whole Chandelier. The LED head was so strong that no graduated frit or pattern on the pure, cast acrylic rods were necessary to make them glow evenly.ĭegenkolb worked with Mike Woods of Mike Wood Consulting and Scott Ingham of Ingham Designs, LLC. We began to realize that fibre optic would have its limitations, namely the light could only travel about 40’ and the glass fibre required a large radius on the sheaves, blocks and hoists so, we decided to go with an LED at the end of an acrylic rod. They were actually doing the stage rigging for the opera house, so it was also very convenient.Ĭlancy put together a team with Robert Degenkolb as the project manager.

There were only a few people in the world that could pull this off and one of them was J.R. He wanted it done, no matter what it took.

This was presented to Bill Winspear, and he fell in love with it. They also prepared a pamphlet on the chandelier.

Winspear opera house matilda