Digital update for Radio City Christmas Spectacular
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The production has been enhanced with updated technology including a new 8K LED wall and digital projections that will extend to all eight of Radio City Music Hall’s iconic proscenium arches that will make audiences feel like they are part of the show.
The new content for both the projections and the LED wall was created by design studio Obscura Digital, which is behind the world’s preeminent architectural projections including the innovative Empire State Building graphic light shows for Academy Award-winning director Louis Psihoyos’s film Racing Extinction.
Additionally, returning this year as designers for several of the Christmas Spectacular’s scenes is batwin + robin productions, a New York-based multimedia design studio that has re-created and enhanced existing video projection and LED content to utilise Radio City’s incredible new projection system.
Technological enhancements in this year’s Christmas Spectacular include updated graphics in every production number as well as complete visual transformations of scenes such as the energetic tap number, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Here Comes Santa Claus and the finale number, Snow.
For the first time, all eight of the venue’s proscenium arches will have imagery projected onto them using the most advanced 14K digital mapping technology available.
“Fans will be awed by the updated technology in this year’s Christmas Spectacular,” said Larry Sedwick, senior vice president of production, The Madison Square Garden Company. “We’ve expanded upon the existing projections to create a wholly immersive experience for our fans from the first row to the third mezzanine. It’s truly the most immersive theatre-going experience available in New York and beyond.”
“As content creators, we’ve had the privilege of working on many large scale architectural projections from the Vatican to the Empire State Building to the Sydney Opera House,” said Matty Dowlen, chief of production, Obscura Digital. “We’re honuored to now work on something as iconic and beloved as the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.”
The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes will run from 10 November 2017- 1 January 1, 2018.
(Jim Evans)
