Living the Dream (Voyage de la Vie Singapore), Auditoria, 2010

'Designed by DPA Architects, the 1,600-seat Festive Grand Theatre is a plenary hall style venue, approximately 4,000m², situated in a chamber beneath the orchid-themed Festive Hotel, and home to Voyage de la Vie. The show was conceived by Mark Fisher as creative producer and Phil Mckinley as show director, and sets were designed by Ray Winkler. Stage Technologies has worked on bringing numerous Mark Fisher designs to life, including the award-winning Tree of Prosperity at the Wynn Hotel in Macau and Las Vegas resident casino shows KÀ and Viva Elvis by Cirque du Soleil... Engaging over 40 cast members from 16 countries, Voyage de la Vie is not short of quickfire action and electrifying stunts and needs a theatre automation system that can keep pace. The whole-house system includes performer flying winches and point hoists, multi-line winches carrying up to 1,400kg each, lighting bars, curtain tracks, scenery tracks, lifts, three stage trucks, three revolving carousels, two Nomad portable control desks and two Solo G3 handheld consoles. The grid of the venue is exceptionally low as the theatre space is situated below a swimming pool, meaning that there is no fly tower for scenery storage, so tracks feature heavily in the stage design.'

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