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.

visit the site

Sage Around – Theaterical Performance Solutions

StageAround^TM is the brand name for Imagine Nation’s staging technologies and innovations

For ANNE, the first authorized play in 55 years based on The Diary of Anne Frank, designer Bernhard Hammer recreated Anne Frank’s living environment on a real scale. The production consists of rotating stage sets and video technology using 180 degree variable projection panels.

For the Dutch musical hit Soldier of Orange, which has been sold out since it opened in October 2010, Robin de Levita invented a system in 2010 where the audience sits in a 360-degree rotating auditorium that turns from set to set. The auditorium is surrounded by projection panels that can open up in various width up to 180 degrees and frame each set.