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Challenge Engineer and build the complex automated multiple revolves for the Broadway production of Shrek, The Musical.
+ Shrek, The Musical SEE Atkinson Motor Detail by PRG/Troy Turntable by PaulWeimar; Photos: Fiona Tower Solution: Tony Award-winning The whole turntable assembly is 10 PRG’s Stage Command® system is scenic designer Tim Hatley trusted feet tall. The largest turntable is 27 used to control all the deck automation WHAT PRG Scenic Technologies to engineer feet in diameter; the smallest is 8 feet. systems, and PRG’s standard 1388 and and build the automated floor unit for The smallest turntable lifts from the 1395 Drive Racks are used for motor Shrek, The Musical. Hatley designed a deck to a height of 5 feet. The complex control. complicated system with three revolves engineering of the automation required LONDON BIRMINGHAM WE laid concentrically inside each other each turntable to have a different Scenic Technologies scope of work MAIDSTONE HAMBURG that also housed five elevators. He drive style. The largest turntable is a also included electrification of over COLOGNE FRANKFURT wanted linear delivery of the scenery grommet-drive with a cable around the 42,000 individual three-color LED’s MUNICH BERLIN CAN but at the same time he didn’t want outside. embedded in 16 fiberglass shells that DUSSELDORF BRUSSELS tracks all over the stage. “We had to act as a video wall when aligned. Of the PARIS ZURICH find a way to get the revolve concept The center one is a chain-drive entire experience Hatley said, “Scenic TOKYO SHANGHAI DO to work so that scenery could move turntable with a chain around the Technologies was a joy to work with CAPE TOWN NEW YORK left to right or upstage to downstage,” outside, and the inner turntable is a throughout the entire process.” NEW JERSEY TORONTO explains Hatley. pinion-gear turntable, which is rotated DETROIT CHICAGO from the perimeter. To achieve precise NASHVILLE ATLANTA positioning, which was critical, all the ORLANDO DALLAS turntables utilize perimeter-drives. DENVER LAS VEGAS LOS ANGELES
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