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Showco- Jim Bornhorst #6

Highest claps-per-dollar? A mirror ball; "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" the hottest show on television in the late Nineties, starring the late Regis Philbin and a giant ring of Vari-Lites; architectural lighting from the Empire State to the…

Showco- Jim Bornhorst #5

"There was blood on the floor of the arena..." for the first show in history using automated lighting September 23, 1981 in Barcelona; the lamb lies down with ptomaine; improving with the VL-2 and VL-3; London West End theatre and "Miss Saigon"…

Showco- Jim Bornhorst part 4

Jim calls out the companies big and small who were first offered the VariLite ...and passed (it's a big club, they should print up jackets ); Genesis manager Tony Smith catches the Hail Mary pass; wire-wrapping thousands of microprocessor card…