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MEYER SOUND TAKES TWO TONYS
With the controlled coverage of the Meyer Sound speakers, there are no bad seats for sound.” One block away at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Jonathan Deans was designing sound for Buena Vista Social Club , a musical inspired by Cuban culture. Deans drew on his decades of experience and respect for the show’s roots by hiring artists who knew the music by heart. To reinforce the audio, Deans embraced simplicity, deploying Meyer Sound Ultra-X40 and Ultra-X20 compact point source loudspeakers. “Meyer Sound gave me the transparency I needed to let the music speak for itself,” he concluded. Peter Hylenski, sound designer on the Jonathan Groff-starring Just in Time , also received a nomination in the musical category. His show blended a variety of Meyer Sound loudspeakers, covering the entirety of Circle in the Square’s theatre-in- the-round auditorium.
The 2025 Tony Awards have officially crowned two Meyer Sound-equipped Broadway productions for their exceptional sound design: Stranger Things: The First Shadow , designed by Paul Arditti, and Buena Vista Social Club by Jonathan Deans. Transferred from London’s West End to Broadway’s Marquis Theatre, Stranger Things allowed sound designer Arditti to start over. Building on the West End version in essentially every way, the team faced new material, additional effects and greater scale – including the demands of a larger venue. Arditti designed a sound system using a combination of Meyer Sound equipment, including Leopard compact and Lina ultra-compact line array speakers, Ultra and UP-4slim loudspeakers, plus both 900-LFC and 2100-LFC low-frequency control elements. “From the moment we powered up the system,” he said, “I knew I’d made the right decision.
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