What's your budget and what types of effects are you looking for?
If you want top of the
line gear from someone like
Martin or Varilite, it's probably going to cost you around $10,000-$15,000 per moving light. If the effects you are looking for are not so high on the complication scale then there are several mid range companies out there like Robe, Chauvet and Elation in the $3,000-$5,000 range. Down at the DJ
level there are units for a few hundred each. There are also lots of options in between you generally get what you pay for, although there are some decent pieces of equipment coming from the midrange price companies.
If it's only for the one show have you looked at renting? (My local theater supply place rent's
Martin Mac 500's at $500 1st week, $250 each additional week.) You could rent a whole show worth of gear for the cost of purchasing just one good ML.
Also what is your light
console and
power situation? You may need to upgrade there as well. Typically intelligent lighting needs to be on a
non-dim circuit because it has its own
dimmer built into the
unit. In some cases you can actually damage the
unit by running it on a dimable
circuit.