Is the LED an acceptable stage lighting tool?
We made a gobo cover light to “project” the window patterns. That was easy. But the color change in the window itself was a problem until I remembered seeing an LED three-color mixing light stick. This gave me a glow in the windows that matched the color changers on the gobos, and I began to change my mind. Since then, there have been many times when I’ve used LEDs to solve specific problems where space was limited and the actual colors achievable and acceptable. The biggest problem is low-end dimming, as they tend to pop on in an irritating way. Les Mis went to Holland again last spring, and I found a very clever young man who has invented a LED dimmer which has something like 15,000 steps, and the bottom end is acceptable…We are using a system at the Broadhurst, as a few LEDs have managed to creep into Equus. There is a horizontal continuous ring of iCove LED fixtures that lights falling mist and three-color uplighters in stage deck grilles with almost no depth. The horses’ heads eac
