RE: London Rocks! (2014 to Present)
I think again, you are missing my point.
I bet the producers aren't as expensive as some of the things they have going on in that show. At the preview performance they did, they had projection mapping technology on display... Which is very hard and time consuming to produce... Not to mention the expense is astronomical. I would know, because I'm working on a show that uses it.
A broadway level show just won't work at a themepark. The longest you want a themepark show to be is about 45 minutes. The two shows I used for example (World of Color and Fantasmic!) are two super costly nighttime spectacular events that cost quite a bit of money and took a long time to produce, but sure enough have paid for themselves. People go out their way to see these shows... They run in right about 30 minutes, and they are two of the biggest theme park shows in the world. No one wants to sit through a 2 or 3 hour musical production at a themepark. That would kill a quarter of your day, the running expense would be far too high, and at best you could run it twice, maybe 3 times a day.
Anyways, Busch is a far way off from having a name for good shows.
But Guess what? They have HAD IT BEFORE! And guess what else? They've had it at a time where TiO still had it's rising stage, before all sorts of random broadway names were bought in to produce stuff a competent local production company could. Before spending an absolute inane amount of money on a lackluster projection mapping effect. Before KK... Even with Kinetix. Still Good name for shows, good name with how they treated their employees.
They've managed to tear down everything people loved about the park and their entertainment division, With the notable exception of Celtic Fyre... And are trying to build it, beyond the means of the company at this moment in time, whilst attempting to continue to whittle away at their past and the park history.
It wasn't broke before. It's broken now. I wonder why?
Investing into making the shows Broadway quality is dumb, to say the least. A theme park show should focus on one of two things, Creating great ORIGINAL CONTENT for the park that doesnt cost an arm and a leg... Not expensive Rip-offs of Love by Cirque du Soleil... Or creating enormous spectacular shows that can't be contained in your average theater (See Fantasmic! and WoC, Even though nowadays, you might be able to pull off a fantasmic in a theater).
Busch had it's trump card show... It's "Nighttime Spectacular". It was called Imaginique. People went out their way to see that show... It had plenty of shows all throughout the season during this time.
But, you know... W/e. Just preaching to the choir. Saying everything that's been said before.
Party Rocker said:
I think again, you are missing my point.
I bet the producers aren't as expensive as some of the things they have going on in that show. At the preview performance they did, they had projection mapping technology on display... Which is very hard and time consuming to produce... Not to mention the expense is astronomical. I would know, because I'm working on a show that uses it.
A broadway level show just won't work at a themepark. The longest you want a themepark show to be is about 45 minutes. The two shows I used for example (World of Color and Fantasmic!) are two super costly nighttime spectacular events that cost quite a bit of money and took a long time to produce, but sure enough have paid for themselves. People go out their way to see these shows... They run in right about 30 minutes, and they are two of the biggest theme park shows in the world. No one wants to sit through a 2 or 3 hour musical production at a themepark. That would kill a quarter of your day, the running expense would be far too high, and at best you could run it twice, maybe 3 times a day.
Anyways, Busch is a far way off from having a name for good shows.
But Guess what? They have HAD IT BEFORE! And guess what else? They've had it at a time where TiO still had it's rising stage, before all sorts of random broadway names were bought in to produce stuff a competent local production company could. Before spending an absolute inane amount of money on a lackluster projection mapping effect. Before KK... Even with Kinetix. Still Good name for shows, good name with how they treated their employees.
They've managed to tear down everything people loved about the park and their entertainment division, With the notable exception of Celtic Fyre... And are trying to build it, beyond the means of the company at this moment in time, whilst attempting to continue to whittle away at their past and the park history.
It wasn't broke before. It's broken now. I wonder why?
Investing into making the shows Broadway quality is dumb, to say the least. A theme park show should focus on one of two things, Creating great ORIGINAL CONTENT for the park that doesnt cost an arm and a leg... Not expensive Rip-offs of Love by Cirque du Soleil... Or creating enormous spectacular shows that can't be contained in your average theater (See Fantasmic! and WoC, Even though nowadays, you might be able to pull off a fantasmic in a theater).
Busch had it's trump card show... It's "Nighttime Spectacular". It was called Imaginique. People went out their way to see that show... It had plenty of shows all throughout the season during this time.
But, you know... W/e. Just preaching to the choir. Saying everything that's been said before.
