Wedding Hippodrome Springfield, Ma

This was taken in March of 2007. The Hippodrome was cleaned and decorated for a wedding. Most of the lighting was done using the Hippodrome's existing light fixtures. Notice the room seems to change color, this was done using Colorkinetics LED lighting that was brought in for the event.

Hippodrome Springfield 2nd Anniversary

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Building Rain,,,Photos from 2003

We purchased the Hot Club in the summer of 2003 and reopened the club as Rain in November of the same year.

Rain was an entertainment complex that featured three separate concepts under one roof.

The main room was called Rain. The concept was actually more of an imitation of The Rum Jungle located at the Mandalay Bay, but the name Rain was more popular and instantly recognizable

Rum Jungle featured water walls in the front of the club visible from outside and several water walls inside the club.

This first picture is of the Hot Club before demolition.

The house facade over the Main bar was the first thing to go.

Construction lasted for about 3 months

Rain remains one of my favorite nightclub designs. I incorporated the feel of Rum Jungle, which was one of the more popular nightclub concepts in the country at the time, with a design that I first saw used in Miami the previous year. This involved mounting LED lights to the walls and covering them with white Polypropylene. The color of the light would shine through and the polypropylene would glow that color. I had the idea of doing this design and placing black lights behind the poly instead of LEDs. The lights wouldn't change color, but the black light gave off an erie glow. The white plastic broke down the UV effect of the black lights and just glowed blue. (see pictures below)

Above the Main bar we built platforms where the House was.

We added a set of stairs in the back of the main room for better access to the balcony.

These are a couple of completed pictures

The most prominent feature of the Main room were the two water walls that were in the front of the room, The largest wall faced out the front window.

We shopped around for water walls to purchase. I got estimates of about $20,000.00

We built them for roughly $2000.00 each

We placed all of the pumps and reservoir tanks in the basement below the walls.

Here is a completed picture for the Grand Opening weekend.

Wedding Hippodrome Springfield, Ma

This series of pictures was taken in March of 2007. The Hippodrome was decorated for a wedding. The lighting was incredible. The tables that you see below were lit using the Hippodrome's intelegent lighting. Most are Martin fixtures (918's and Mac 550's) cntrolled with a Light Jockey.

Most of the uplighting was done with colorkinetics LED fixtures which were rented.

The Paramount Theater's original movie screen is still in good working order and is put to good use during events. The screen is 45 feet wide and weighs 2ooo pounds. It is lowered and raised useing the theater's fly system and counter wieghts

The Hippodrome is a great place to have banquets and funtions. The room itself allows you to do things that a typical ballroom can't. A 60 foot high cieling and $500,000.00 worth of production equipment make anything possible. There is a great sound system, Intelligent and static stage lighting, special effects like snow and wind machines, and a broadcast quality video system, including cameras, mixing board, and an Avid editing suite installed for video production using the movie screens and 20 or so remote tv's installed throughout the facility.


Some of the weddings that have been held at the Hippodrome have used DJ's and live bands. For this one we used a DJ and a troupe of Cirque Du Soleil performers.