Would you invest to that level of in-house, knowing you'd have to settle on a fixture choice ?. You can't afford or have 16 VL3500's as well as 16 MAC 2k Perfomance, not to mention countless LED choices as well and the ***** is trying to 2nd guess what the clients wants. The console is almost easy IF most of the acts are R&R, then you do a GrandMA2.
OR, you don't do any, or few ML's and LED's, just enough to make life a little easier, as well as a very good and modern ETC conventional rig, with maybe the ML's being VL1000's as well as a LED cyc set, or something to make the rep plot more flexible. Then an Ion or Eos to make the events with the in-house LD happy and their life easier (and more efficient). My current problem is I now have a dozen ML's, all flash and trash MAC700's and Studio Spots and almost no events to use them on since the GM cracked down on us using them for rentals. We are puzzled as to why he does not simply up the rental fee by $300 or so to cover the maintenance (the fixtures were all grant funded). So think long and hard as to how to best incorporate all the new stuff that nobody wants to pay for.
If and when we ever do this, there will still be a plot in the air that will be able to handle dance to a degree. However, our executive director has been for a long time moving us to a music presenting house. This month we did 19 concerts, 5 corporates, 2 Theaters, and 2 dance. No dance company can afford us to do a multi-day hang/prep and therefore are staying in rep with a few color swaps. As far as exact fixture choices, that is not really a concern. We are a B/C venue so most of the tours that come in are just carrying a ground package. Currently, if the rider asks for moving lights in house, we ignore that section and just move on. Most B/C LD's just want something that throws light out one end and wiggles. They usually just distinguish between profile and wash lights and thats about it. They will take whatever they can get.