<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Vari-Lite Takes Center Stage with ``Oklahoma!''<BR>Lighting Company Continues Run of Lighting Stellar Broadway Shows<P>Businewss Wire on Yahoo! News<P>DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2002-- The VARI*LITE® Series 2000(TM) products continue to be the automated lights of choice for Broadway's top lighting designers. When the hit musical ``Oklahoma!'' opened March 21 at the Gershwin Theatre in New York, Vari-Lite Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vari-Lite International (Nasdaq:LITE - news), continued its run of lighting Broadway's biggest and most successful shows.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P><a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020410/100320_2.html target=_blank>More</a>

So, folks, who has had experience working with moving lights - and what was take on it?

I've never worked with vari lites, but I will say that in a small theatre the sound of the motor can be distracting.

Indeed, even on Broadway, Patrick Stewart halted a technical rehearsal until all the fans were turned off.<P>The original moving lights were developed for rock and roll, where fan noise is not an issue; the newer generation is fanless.