ACC Liverpool

Walking with Dinosaurs

19-23 Aug 09

Family entertainment: Arena

Ticket Prices: £20.00/£30.00/£35.00 subject to booking / handling fee

For 200 million years the Dinosaurs ruled the earth.

Now, they're back, roaming the arenas of the United Kingdom in an extraordinary new theatrical production.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - The Arena Spectacular

Based on the award-winning BBC Television Series.

Dinosaurs will once again roam the earth in a spectacular new theatrical arena show, which comes to the Liverpool Echo Arena from 19th-23rd August 2009. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - The Arena Spectacular, based on the award-winning BBC Television series will see real size dinosaurs come to life in what promises to be one of the most exciting and groundbreaking shows ever seen in the U.K.

The show originated in Australia, where after years of planning, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS came to life at Sydney's Acer Arena in January 2007. The show proved itself such a sensation, that the American tour was fast-tracked. It began just three months after completing it's sold out engagements in Australia.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - The Arena Spectacular is brought to the U.K. by The Creature Production Company, headed by CEO Carmen Pavlovic, in association with BBC Worldwide. Pavlovic said, "The BBC series was a brilliant blend of special effects, escapism, excitement and information. Our show brings together all of that, plus something extra - it's live!  In this production, 15 roaring, snarling "live" dinosaurs mesmerise the audience - and are as awe-inspiring as when they first walked on earth."

Pavlovic continued, "The dinosaurs are life-size, making the show so immense, it could only fit in arenas. It's a £10 million arena spectacle of unprecedented size and quality, which captivates young and old alike."

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 Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous period. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 36 feet tall, and 56 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronics experts a year to build the original production.

The show depicts the dinosaurs' evolution, complete with the climatic and tectonic changes that took place, which led to the demise of many species. 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.

The history of the world is played out with the splitting of the earth's continents, and the transition from the arid desert of the Triassic period is given over to the lush green prairies and forces of the later Jurassic. Oceans form, volcanoes erupt, a forest catches fire- all leading to the impact of the massive comet, which struck the earth, and forced the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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