Meyer Sound LEO Family line arrays have been tapped to anchor the sound for
some of the most talked-about new shows both on Broadway and heading out on
national tours. New shows in New York include Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet
of 1812, the Cats revival and the annual holiday spectacular at the Radio City Music
Hall. In addition, the tours of Fun Home and Finding Neverland are both carrying
LEOPARD™ line array systems.

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 blazes into Broadway’s Imperial Theatre
this fall with multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban in the role of Pierre. The
production audaciously retains the show’s original staging concept, with the
audience inches away from the action, which takes place throughout the theatre.

Sound designer Nicholas Pope devised an innovative loudspeaker
configuration with multiple small LEOPARD arrays supplemented by UltraSeries
loudspeakers, all interconnected by a 288 x 288-channel matrix using Meyer
Sound’s D-Mitri® digital audio platform. The system supplier is Masque Sound.

“Because of the unique scenic design and staging, all the microphones are out in
front of the PA speakers at all times,’ notes Pope. “The flat frequency and phase
response of the LEOPARD arrays is crucial for keeping feedback under
control.’

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved Cats returns to Broadway in 2016, this time
enthralling audiences at the Neil Simon Theatre. The show’s system is built around
left and right arrays of 15 LEOPARD line array loudspeakers with bass support from
four 900-LFC low frequency control elements. Sound design is by long-time Lloyd
Webber collaborator Mick Potter, and the supplying shop is Sound Associates.

Fun Home, last year’s exuberant winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, takes
to the road with audio support from a system with main left and right Masque
Sound custom towers outfitted with 11-each LEOPARD line array loudspeakers.
The all-Meyer Sound system also includes M1D centre arrays, 500-HP subwoofers,
and a host of UltraSeries loudspeakers (UP-4XP, UPJunior and UPJ-1P) for fills,
delays and cast foldback. The tour opened in Cleveland in late October and is
currently booked through August of 2017.

Finding Neverland is also launching a national tour with a LEO Family system, in this
case 34 LEOPARDs and four 1100-LFC low frequency control elements supplied by
Sound Associates. The tour, with sound design by Jonathan Deans, kicked off in
Buffalo on October 11 with shows scheduled across the country through next
August.

Kicking off for the holiday season is the annual Christmas Spectacular Starring the
Radio City Rockettes. The fabled holiday tradition will be bathed in sound from
Radio City Music Hall’s new in-house system of 32 LYON™ and 40 LEOPARD line
array speakers plus 30 900-LFC elements. The system was designed by Andrew
Keister of SCK Sound Design and supplied by PRG of New York.