SpotTrack In
Action
Software tool for
follow spot callers now in use on high-profile shows
30th March 2010
SpotTrack, the new software tool for making and
managing followspot cue sheets, has found favour with
a number of high profile shows since its launch last
autumn.
In London, Love Never Dies, the
long-awaited sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
international hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, is
using SpotTrack to manage its followspot cue
sheets. The show is lit by Paule Constable, with
the spots overseen by her associate lighting
designer Beky Stoddart. Stoddart is also using
SpotTrack on the new production of Oliver!, also lit by Paule Constable, at
London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane, and
associate lighting designer Nick Simmons is
using it to manage the followspots on the new UK
tour of Les Misérables, again designed
by the busy Constable.
The new West End production of Legally Blonde, lit by Kenneth
Posner and Paul Miller, is also using SpotTrack,
the spots on the show overseen by Pete Bragg.
In the US, the first show to use SpotTrack is the hit
musical Billy Elliot, for its first
touring production setting up now in Chicago.
Lighting designer Rick Fisher is re-creating his
Tony-award winning work on the show, with Dan
Walker serving as associate lighting designer and
Kristina Kloss calling the followspots.
SpotTrack has continued to evolve through all of
these shows based on feedback and feature requests
from those using it. New features added since launch
include the ability to add fade times for cues, notes
seen only by the spot caller, page numbers to tie
spot cues to script pages, and functions for quickly
copying information from spot to spot when multiple
spots are doing the same thing in a cue. The current
version of SpotTrack -1.18 – is available for
download now, and will run in
demo mode allowing it to be played with prior to
purchase.
Purchasing SpotTrack for UK£45 unlocks its full
functionality, including printing. More importantly,
your purchase supports one of two fine entertainment
industry charities – Light Relief and the ESTA
Foundation’s Behind the Scenes, with 15% of
the purchase price being donated to the charity
of the purchaser’s choice. Light Relief is
slightly ahead at the moment…
Created by the people behind FocusTrack, the
increasingly popular show lighting documentation
software, SpotTrack is available now, running on Mac
or PC. Further information is available here.