Ken Billington, a Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award winner for lighting design, recently had to design the lighting for the touring production of "Dreamgirls". One of the problems Billington faced was to get footlights in place on stages everywhere. This included some stages where space, especially depth, was at a minimum.

He solved the problem by specifying LitePads. These LED units are only 1/8" deep. LitePads, originally introduced for film, TV and still photographic lighting provide a soft, even, diffuse light. Billington used the standard rectangular sizes (LitePads are made in six different rectangular or square sizes.) A cutout of circles was affixed over the units and the LitePads, which produce a white light, were gelled with Roscolux.

The "Dreamgirls" tour, with its innovative LitePad footlights, played in nearly two dozen cities around the United States.

  

The light tower is equipped with ETC Source Fours, but the footlights are Rosco LitePads.

The closeup show the LitePad footlights, gelled in three Roscolux colors, reflected in the high gloss Plexiglass stage floor.





Ken Billington just opened his 93rd Broadway show The Scottsboro Boys. Previous productions include: Sondheim on Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George (2008), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Search for Signs… starring Lily Tomlin, Footloose, Chicago (1997), Candide (1997), Annie (1997), Inherit the Wind, My Fair Lady (1981), Fiddler on the Roof (1990, 81,76), Moon Over Buffalo, Meet Me in St. Louis, Tru, Sweeney Todd, Working, On the 20th Century, Side by Side by Sondheim and The Visit, He is represented this season with the touring productions of Dreamgirls, Fiddler on the Roof and White Christmas, Ken is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. His award winning architectural lighting includes such projects as New York’s Tavern on the Green and the Waterfront at Seaworld Orlando.