ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

 

After years of planning, the award-winning BBC TV series, Walking with Dinosaurs comes to life in a stunning theatrical event. Internationally renowned designers have worked with scientists to create 15 life-size dinosaurs, including the terror of the ancient terrain, Tyrannosaurus-rex! Be amazed and thrilled as the greatest creatures ever to walk the earth return before your eyes. It s a dazzling 10 million pound arena spectacle of unprecedented size and quality set to captivate young and old alike. Marvel at the story of their 200 million year domination of life on earth. Watch them walk. Hear the roar. Be there as they fight for survival and supremacy. From the ripple of their skin to the glint in their eye, you will know the dinosaurs really have returned! 

 

CAST & CREATIVE

 

Conceived by - William May

Artistic Director - William May

Directed by - Scott Faris.

Music by - James Brett.

Sets by - Peter England.

Lighting by - John Rayment.

 

A WW T-Rex presentation in association with BBC Worldwide of an arena show by William May, written by Warner Brown.

 

QUOTES & REVIEWS

 

 

Since the dinosaurs are what everyone has come to see, it s a relief to report they are stunning, life-size and faultlessly nimble

Variety USA

 

An exhilarating arena show

Live with Regis and Kelly USA

 

Even the littlest audience members on opening night seemed thrilled finally to see a dinosaur that wasn’t purple. A thundering comeback after 65 million years

New York Times

 

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS  took six years to create. The show requires 150 people to stage, including a spectrum manager to control radio frequencies used to operate the dinosaurs. Twenty-five tractor-trailers are needed to transport the 116,000 pounds of scenery, lights and sound equipment, and the 30 tons of dinosaurs.

Newsweek

 

That rare entertainment beast that parents and kids can enjoy together.

NBC The Today Show

 

These pre-historic creatures that once ruled the earth are back!  It took hundreds of people six years and $20 million to bring these dinosaurs back to life. The dinosaurs are life like and life sized.  It is an unprecedented production - all designed to let audiences take a step back in time.

Variety

 

What we are seeing here are the early stages of a new theatre paradigm – defined by big, bigger – and better. Australia has a wonderful uninhibited energy and seems to produce new ideas and take them in new directions for the loving creation of wonderful new worlds.

Boston Globe

 

No bones about it, they re alive!

Terry Byrne, Boston Globe

 

Forget about dusty skeletons and fossilized footprints.  Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience  offers life-size beasts with skin, sound, mobility and, best of all, attitude. The sheer size and detailed design of Sonny Tilders  10 animatronic dinosaurs, ranging from the 35-foot tall Brachiosaurus to the outrageously armor-plated Anklyosaurus, are quite stunning. Walking With Dinosaurs has a beautiful attention to detail … and a light show worthy of a Pink Floyd concert.

Boston Herald

 

A new breed of fun!

Christine Fernsebner, Boston Herald

 

The animatronic stars stomped into TD Banknorth Garden with surreal grace, grazed on glowing, inflatable plants, and preened obligingly, their meticulously detailed and supple flesh shown off to advantage in dappled blue sunshine. The dinosaurs called to each other with incredible roars, and in the case of Tyrannosaurus Rex, and resonant, mournful tones suggestive of whales and foghorns.  The torosaurus succeeded in being both uncannily plausible and fantastical in its ponderous bulk and extravagantly flared skull and an older brachiosaurus - with a neck tall enough to graze at the mezzanine s Dunkin  Donuts - was on hand to intimidate predators.

Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

 

This is an eye-popping excursion for young paleontologists … attention was paid to the scientific accuracy of the educational, evolutionary narrative.

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times