Germany - The production Die Drei ??? und der seltsame Wecker (The Three Investigators and the strange alarm clock) the successful audio drama series has toured Germany for the second time. In addition to Oliver Rohrbeck as Jupiter Jones, Jens Wawrczeck as Pete Crenshaw and Andreas Fröhlich as Bob Andrews, all of whom have already become icons to fans of the series, Peter Klinkenberg was the foley artist and Helmut Kraus the narrator.
Kai Schwind adapted the original story and directed. The Three Investigators were created at the beginning of the 1960s by the US journalist and author, Robert Arthur.
The sold out tour relied heavily on lighting and video as well as digital sound effects. mb-media Engineering and Design used a control system consisting of one grandMA2 full-size console, two MA NPUs (Network Processing Unit), one grandMA2 replay unit with one grandMA2 faderwing, two MA VPUs (Video Processing Units) as well as MA Digital Dimmer Touring. With this sophisticated system operator Martin Rupprecht controlled 28 Vari*Lite VL1000 TSDs, eight Clay Paky Alpha Spot 1200s, six Rainbow 8-Lite PRO Scrollers, one Barco MiTRIX LED-Screen as well as Martin moving lights.
"It was our intention to work with lighting moods like in a theatre", explained Rupprecht, "Therefore we have used only halide lamps, with the exception of the blinders, which meant short focussing times for us. The grandMA2 system was extremely helpful in controlling the 4,500 parametres. The new MA NPU is very easy to configure. We just had to set up the IP address and we could start working immediately. Furthermore the monitoring possibilities were a big help thanks to the integrated touch screen."
