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West Side Story

nielsg — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:43:57 +0000

West Side Story in Stage Around

The internationally successful Broadway musical West Side Story will be staged at the IHI Stage Around Tokyo starting on August 19.

West Side Story is one of the most beloved musicals around the world, lauded for its music, dance choreography and story. With music composition by the famous American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, some of its most successful numbers included Tonightand America, both known to anyone and everyone. Despite being 60-years-old, love for the musical hasn’t faded even a bit.

IHI Stage Around Tokyo is located in Toyosu, Tokyo and first opened its doors in March 2017. It is home to a rotating auditorium on which the audience sits as well as an enormous moving screen and stage. The staging technology slowly and gently rotates spectators around the stage and coincides with the story of running plays.

The technology for this system was first introduced at hangers in an airport in Amsterdam in October 2010. IHI Stage Around Tokyo is the world’s second place to incorporate it and the first in Asia.

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Sky

nielsg — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:24:58 +0000

About SKY

SKY the Musical, a new ground breaking theatrical experience in 3D, premiered on April 3rd 2016 in Theater Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The staging concept of SKY includes a combination of very basic physical set elements with high-end 3D projections. The result not only led to a breath taking experience but also to a highly efficient production- and operating budget. SKY is currently in development for international markets.

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Carmen

nielsg — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:46:45 +0000

Carmen

The story of the gypsy seductress whose beauty and cunning leads men astray, Carmen is one of theatre’s most iconic characters and the original empowered woman, set in a classic story of love and betrayal, sex and death.

Set in 1845, Spain, an ambitious soldier, Jose, leaves family and home for Madrid. The beautiful gypsy Carmen, whose charms entangle the proud soldier leading him to desertion and murder, soon captivates him. His devoted wife Micaela, tries in vain to win him back, but Jose’s growing, possessive obsession with Carmen prevails, destroying his marriage and ultimately pushing the free-spirited Carmen into the arms of star bullfighter, Escamillo. Her reluctance to commit to Jose after his personal sacrifice and her romance with Escamillo, leads to the story’s unforgettable finale.

Resolute in life, passionate and strong to the end, Carmen knows her fate and fulfills her promise to live free and die free.

CARMEN is not a morality story. It is infused with flesh and blood characters that move in their own world where the dance between the bullfighter and the bull is a metaphor for love and power. And in which the physical and emotional power of Flamenco, with restraint and release ebbing and flowing like an act of love, is an additional language the creators use to express their vision.

Sarah Miles’ adaptation remains true to the tale, by striving to find the honest, human element, which makes all mythic tales universal and immortal, reminding us that the likes of Medea and Jason, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen and Jose continue to walk amongst us. With Carmen’s passion, Jose’s obsession, Micaela’s devotion, and Escamillo’s fame, the stage is set for this timeless, tragic love story.

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