MAC 2000 Performance for West End's Bombay Dreams

A very original show to hit the West End recently, the highly anticipated show Bombay Dreams, opened in June at London’s Apollo Victoria Theater and has become one of the smash successes of the year.

This Andrew Lloyd Webber and Shekhar Kapur love story is set in India and draws its inspiration from the colorful film industry of Bombay. The story charts a young Bollywood film director and her not-so-well-off lover and their fight against prejudice. The production features a Hugh Vanstone lighting design using some of Martin’s newest MAC moving heads.

Hugh comments, “I used 4 MAC 2000 Performances on the circle rail. There are a series of film posters incorporated in the scenic design and it was initially this that led me to the MAC 2000 Performance because of the framing shutter capability. I then realized that they would also provide most of the animated effects projection that I needed such as reflected water ripples around the large pool and soft blowing clouds (which can color crossfade) on the white foil curtain during "Only Love". They do all this and much more. My favorite discovery was "limbo" glass on the gobo wheel. I´m now obsessed with it... it´s in just about every scene of the show somewhere, used as a softener behind gobos or just as a texture on it´s own. No show should be without it!”

For the past ten years, Hugh Vanstone has designed the lighting for plays, musicals and operas in London, New York and around the world.