Based on the life, songs and music of the entertainer and song writer Peter Allen, and performed for the first time in 1998 in Sydney, The Boy From Oz has just closed after a sell-out 3 month Australian tour. This new production of the original musical especially designed for large arenas, included a 25-piece live orchestra and 100 singers from the Australian Girls’ choir. Australian V-DOSC Partner, Jands Production Services, was chosen to design and supply the sound reinforcement.
Sound designer Michael Waters – who won a Helpmann Award for Best Sound Design for Dusty: The Musical – specified a L-ACOUSTICS V DOSC system which includes 36 V-DOSC, 27 dV-DOSC, 4 ARCS and 18 SB218 subwoofers. Jim Straw, general manager of Jands Production Services, stated that, “The Boy from Oz is a complex and ambitious arena musical theatre spectacular. This production has unique audio requirements and demands a very different approach to live concert arena tours. Jands Production Services provided a complete audio solution for the tour which included design and technical expertise, eight sound operators and technicians, along with the latest state of the art equipment including a V-DOSC speaker system.”
ABC review
Photo – Jeff Busby
| Tour dates | 11 July – 1 October 2006 |
| Sound Designer | Michael Waters |
| System Engineer | Pat Richardson |
| FOH Engineer | Antony Love |
| Monitor Engineer | Bob Daniels |
| Audio Crew | Damon Pieterse, Nick Giameos, Tim Seconi, Josh Jamgotchian, Brendan Keane |
| Speaker System | L-Acoustics VDOSC system |
| 36 x V-Dosc Elements | |
| 27 x dV-Dosc Elements | |
| 18 x SB-218 Subs | |
| 4 x L-Acoustics Arcs | |
| Amplifiers | 48 x Crown MA-5002-VZ Amplifiers |
| Monitor System | |
| 8 x Clair 12AM Monitor Speaker | |
| 4 x Crest 7301 Bi-amp | |
| 9 x Aviom A16II Personal Monitor mixers | |
| 22 x Shure PSM700 in ear monitors | |
| 4 x Sennheiser EW300-IEM-G2 In ear monitors | |
| 1 x Shure P6HW in ear monitors | |
| Consoles | |
| F.O.H. | 1 x Yamaha PM5D-RH Digital Console |
| 3 x Yamaha DM 1000 Digital Console | |
| Monitor | 2 x Yamaha PM5D-RH |
| Radio Mics | |
| 20ch Shure U-Series Radio mic | |
| 8 ch Sennheiser 3000 series Radio mic | |
| 28 x DPA 4088 Headset microphones |
L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC and dV-DOSC products are rapidly becoming the system of choice for front line theatre productions. From its introduction on ‘Mamma Mia!,’ V-Dosc was recognised instantly as a major leap forward in sound quality. After hearing the system, Cameron Mackintosh requested dV-DOSC for use on ‘The Witches of Eastwick.’ Since then, it has been specified for ‘The Full Monty,’ among others. In Australia, V-DOSC, dV-DOSC and ARCS had their theatre debuts on ‘Shout”, ‘Singin’ In The Rain,’ ‘Grease The Big Top Tour’and ‘Mamma Mia!, receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences alike.