NEWS FROM WALKING WITH DINOSAURS

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - THE LIVE EXPERIENCE

EXTENDED AT CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ARENA

DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND

NOW OCTOBER 3rd – 7th, 2007

Due to popular demand, an 8th and final show of Walking With Dinosaurs – The Live Experience has been added on Sunday, October 7th at 7:30 PM. Tickets for the October 7th show go on sale Thursday, September 13 at 12 Noon through Ticketmaster and at the Continental Airlines Arena Box Office. Tickets for all other shows are on sale now.

Dinosaurs return to the earth in WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience, based on the award-winning BBC Television Series. After playing for ten sold-out weeks in five cities in Australia, where it was seen by an audience of over 300,000, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience now comes to North America for a two-year arena tour and will perform eight shows at Continental Airlines Arena from October 3–7.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience is directed by Scott Faris, who said, “The BBC Series was a brilliant blend of special effects, escapism, excitement and information. Our show has that — and it’s live. In this 90-minute show, fifteen dinosaurs, snarling and sweaty, mesmerize the audience – and are as terrifying as they were in life. This is a show that could only fit in arenas – as the creatures are so absolutely immense in size. It is the closest you’ll ever get to experiencing what it was like when they walked and ruled the earth.”

For more information on tickets and schedule:
www.dinosaurlive.com

The creative team is lead by director Faris, a Broadway veteran who has worked side by side with Harold Prince, Trevor Nunn, Michael Blakemore, Gene Saks, John Caird, Tommy Tune and Jerry Zaks.

The creatures are designed and built by Sonny Tilders. The set design and projected image design is by Peter England. The lighting is by John Rayment. The score is composed by James Brett.

Tim Haines, creator and producer of the original BBC series, which was seen by a worldwide audience of 700 million, serves as Project Consultant to the production. The series won six Emmy and three BAFTA Awards.

Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plesiosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and the awesome Cretaceous. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 45 feet tall, and 75 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 – including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts – a year to build the original production.

The 15 dinosaurs of the original Australian production were “hatched” by Tilders, the head of creature design, in a Melbourne Docklands workshop big enough to park a 747. The show took one year to build. The team of 50 artists and technicians are now building a new set of ‘stars’ to tour North America and later internationally.

The creatures are so large, that the show can only play to two-thirds of the seating of American arenas. Audiences seated in the lower seats are all but overwhelmed by the dinosaurs, while those seated in higher seats view the entire spectacle and panorama of the production.

Faris said, “We go on an incredible journey back in time with a paleontologist. The audience sees these dinosaurs behaving just as they did in their prime – the blood, sweat, and fears with the full range of body movements, and roars and snorts.”

The show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution, complete with the climatic and tectonic changes that took place allowing them to survive for so long. With almost cinematic realism, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS has scenes of the interactions between dinosaurs, and the audience sees how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience is brought to North America by Immersion Edutainment.

WHAT: WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience

WHEN: Wednesday, October 3 @ 7:30 pm
Thursday, October 4 @ 7:30 pm
Friday, October 5 @ 10:30 am & 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 6 @ 10:30 am, 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 7 @ 7:30 pm - ADDED SHOW

WHERE: Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ

TICKETS: $87, $75, $55, $40, $27
Tickets for the October 7th show go on sale Thursday, September 13 at Noon through Ticketmaster and at the Continental Airlines Arena Box Office. Tickets for all other shows are on sale now.

Tickets are available at the Continental Airlines Arena Box Office, online at ticketmaster.com, through Ticketmaster charge-by-phone 201-507-8900, 609-520-8383 and 212-307-7171 and Ticketmaster outlets. For Groups Sales of 20 or more call 201-460-4370.
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