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Q Brothers Collective & The Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago IL  |     February 2018

Projection Design

  • Direction      The Q Brothers Collective
  • Lighting       Nick Belley

This show as a modern hip-hop musical version of The Odyssey, by Homer.  Three heroes go through a magical journey through Chicago music genres - gospel, punk, house, and blues - to get to a rap competition.  Featuring the Q Brothers, several leads, and more than 70 Chicago Children's Choir members as the chorus, this show was a massive undertaking at The Studebaker Theatre in Chicago.

We used a large 20,000 lumen projector to accomplish a lot of different looks for this show.  There was a number of scenic elements and performers that had to be masked and we integrated a lot of moving video to look like pieces of the set.