Pete's Big TVs Projects Spider-Man on The Late Show

The Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark presented a nationwide peek of the show recently on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman. Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video helped project a visual backdrop from the musical.

Production manager Mike Bauder, of New York-based MB Productions, contacted Guy Benjamin late in the week for the Late Show performance the following Tuesday, March 1. "It's a quick turnaround time in our world," says Benjamin, "but we can handle it. We've actually done a few other promotional events for Spider-Man's cast appearance on Good Morning America and other shows over the past few months."

Spider-Man's projection coordinator/content designer Howard Werner adjusted the show's artwork so that it would match the screen's ratio and high resolution. Though the call was for a 10mm LED screen, PBTV/PV offered a higher resolution screen with the Lighthouse R6, 6mm LED screen measuring 12 x 19'.

"The 6mm higher resolution screen looks better on the TV cameras," Benjamin says.

The cast performed the song "Rise Above," in front of a wall of projected webs, modernistic cityscapes and other show stunning graphics from the musical.

PBTV/PV techs working the show were Matt Ellar and Brent Jones. The Late Show taped at 5:30pm. for airing later that evening from the studio at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York.