monochrome
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i'm a bit worried about the tight schedule of the O2's events. the show right before michael's first date is james taylor coming on july 6th. that means there'll only be two days for setting up michael's stage (not even regarding that the former one needs to be taken down). according to O2's website, madonna for example, will have a whole week for preparing her stuff...which seems reasonable after seeing her production last summer (her upcoming dates will be a follow-up to the hard candy tour).
i've been at two of michael's concerts in the past and the stages of the dangerous and history tour were massive, in size and equipment. no way to get something like that on track and working properly in only 2 days. i remember reports saying that it took almost a week putting a michael jackson stage together.
same thing with the following event: there will be ne-yo on july 11th, only one night after michael's second show...
so what does that mean? i would not be surprised if fans should expect a scaled down michael this time. in the beginning i thought that he'll have a long time for preparing at the O2. What about on loaction rehearsals? of course, they gonna put up a stage somewhere in london for generell rehearsals, but wouldn't it be much more comfortable and safe to polish up at the original location? especially if you are planing on using magic elements. here again i'll draw a comparison to madonna: when she premiered her latest tour last year she had rented the millennium dome in cardiff for a week...
saying that open air events are not compareable to indoor ones seems not correct to me. i think nowadays the diferences effort-wise between arena and stadium shows are not that big anymore. it's more about complex stage designs, procedures and special effects than about the measures of the platform.
i am wondering how the O2's concert management looks like. do they provide a basic stage layout which might be quickly adjusted to the artist's needs? do you think that someone like ne-yo tours with his own whole stage, head to toe? i assume he doesn't.
this would be a solution for tight, day by day productions as scheduled for the O2.
as i said, these technical circumstances got me surprised since they don't fit to michael's reputation for being a perfectionist.
what do you guys think?
PS: i am really looking forward to seeing this tour and i don't want to be too negative without having any reason. let's say "this is it" will be a new direction for michael's stageing. even if it will be a rather small and simple stage it should not necessarily affect his qualities as a performer. you could simply put him onto a wooden potatoe box and he'd still have that magical aura around him. i only hope that everything he does will be done with a sharp and confident mind in order to deliver an artisticly impressive show.
i've been at two of michael's concerts in the past and the stages of the dangerous and history tour were massive, in size and equipment. no way to get something like that on track and working properly in only 2 days. i remember reports saying that it took almost a week putting a michael jackson stage together.
same thing with the following event: there will be ne-yo on july 11th, only one night after michael's second show...
so what does that mean? i would not be surprised if fans should expect a scaled down michael this time. in the beginning i thought that he'll have a long time for preparing at the O2. What about on loaction rehearsals? of course, they gonna put up a stage somewhere in london for generell rehearsals, but wouldn't it be much more comfortable and safe to polish up at the original location? especially if you are planing on using magic elements. here again i'll draw a comparison to madonna: when she premiered her latest tour last year she had rented the millennium dome in cardiff for a week...
saying that open air events are not compareable to indoor ones seems not correct to me. i think nowadays the diferences effort-wise between arena and stadium shows are not that big anymore. it's more about complex stage designs, procedures and special effects than about the measures of the platform.
i am wondering how the O2's concert management looks like. do they provide a basic stage layout which might be quickly adjusted to the artist's needs? do you think that someone like ne-yo tours with his own whole stage, head to toe? i assume he doesn't.
this would be a solution for tight, day by day productions as scheduled for the O2.
as i said, these technical circumstances got me surprised since they don't fit to michael's reputation for being a perfectionist.
what do you guys think?
PS: i am really looking forward to seeing this tour and i don't want to be too negative without having any reason. let's say "this is it" will be a new direction for michael's stageing. even if it will be a rather small and simple stage it should not necessarily affect his qualities as a performer. you could simply put him onto a wooden potatoe box and he'd still have that magical aura around him. i only hope that everything he does will be done with a sharp and confident mind in order to deliver an artisticly impressive show.
