Rob is delighted to be able to announce that the big project he was occupied with - but couldn’t talk about - through much of 2019 and into 2020 before Covid came along and forced production to shut down, is now finally open, up and running: CARNIVAL MAGIC in Phuket, Thailand.
Billed as the ‘crowning jewel in night-time entertainment on the island of Phuket’ and describing itself as ‘the world’s first Thai carnival theme park’, the project is centred around a spectacular carnival show staged in a newly built theatre designed just for this shows, with an enormous, 70metre wide proscenium which then has massive wing spaces on either sides to house the enormous floats, some themselves almost 70m wide, which for the basis of the show.
Working alongside lighting designer John A Williams, Rob filled many roles on this production including ultimately programming the lighting for the rig of more than three hundred moving lights from Robe, Martin, GLP and others, including, for the technically minded, a remarkable 70m run of GLP X4-Bars as footlights. The show continues the relationship both have with the show’s producer Kittikorn Kewkacha from his earlier show, Phuket Fantasea, which is also now up and running again post-Covid, continuing a run that now extends to twenty-two years.
Carnival Magic is running now in Phuket, Thailand, with performances on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, alongside Phuket Fantasea which performs on Mondays and Fridays.
Carnival Magic: [link]