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Pierre E. Roy colorizes “Beatles Story Band Orchestra II” with Chauvet

The “Beatles Story Band Orchestra II” tour’s Théâtre Capitole show in Quebec City, Canada, on March 14, 2026, featured a flow of stark psychedelic-inspired color patterns created with help from Chauvet Professional fixtures.

“My color choices were made very deliberately to evoke the Beatles’ psychedelic era”, explains lighting designer Pierre E. Roy. “For the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ intro, I created a rainbow effect that evoked the mood of the album. My colors were also chosen to follow the video content and match it visually, as we would say.”

But the Beatles did not always play amidst rainbows. In the earliest days, when they performed at Liverpool’s Cavern Club and in the underground haunts of Hamburg’s St. Pauli quarter, the lighting was often pale and dim. Roy reflects this too in his design. “The beginning of the show is much more focused on shades of white, because in the early Beatles days, colored lighting simply didn’t exist”, he says. “So, for roughly the first thirty minutes of the show I stay within variations of white - warm, cool, slightly greenish, yellowish. As soon as we enter the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ era, I bring out all the colors.”

For the final two-plus hours of the show, Roy treats fans to a panorama of colors, which, like the Beatles music from the late 1960s, is joyfully transcendent. At times, his colors are painted across the stage in broad strokes, while at others they reflect moods in more narrowly focused beams. The palette on stages also moves seamless from monochromatic to multi-colored.

Key to helping Roy weave these colors together at Théâtre Capitole were sixteen Maverick Force 2 Spot fixtures. “We had twelve of them rigged on pipes to create different looks and for musician specials, and four on the floor to create a nice fanning effect while keeping the orchestra in shadow”, Roy says of the fixture. “Their wide zoom range was helpful in changing the scope and depth of our lighting.”

Joining the Maverick fixtures was a collection of Colorado 2 Quad Zoom units, which were used to pour additional color on to the musicians. “We were passionate about covering the stage with color”, says Roy. “I am grateful that Pierre Chainé and Christian Morissette from Productions Orchestra Inc. entrusted me to bring this vision to life. We all wanted to use color to capture the magic of the Beatles.”

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