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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan This Game-Changing Innovation Get Live Theatre Back Before the Pandemic Ends?
https://playbill.com/article/a-game-changing-innovation-that-will-get-live-theatre-back-before-this-pandemic-endsAs the theatre industry comes to terms with the idea that Broadway will not return until winter 2021 (at the earliest) and entertainment unions call on Congress to make stays for health insurance and financial assistance for entertainment workersparticularly in the theatretheres been a grim acceptance about how long it will be before performers can perform together again and audiences can fill houses and commune in the singular experience of live theatre. Until now.
Brendan Bradley has built a theatre in which it is entirely safe for actors to perform onstage together and audiences to attend with friends (even those with whom youre not quarantined) sans masks or temperature checks; and it exists in virtual reality. Before you dismiss this as just another screen, click here to check out the space in a virtual walkthrough.
The innovation is called Future Stages, a 3D virtual theatre-going experience imagined and designed by Bradley with rendering and optimization from Aleena Sohail. Bradley is essentially an architect, but instead of bricks and mortar, he uses computer code. The spacelike any traditional theatre spacecomes fully equipped for a producer to rent and mount their show.
Attendees can enter the space with a VR headset or via your average computer web browser (thats how this writer did it). After choosing or designing an avatar, youll walk through the front doors into the lobby. You can visit the box office or the merchandise booth, pick up a program, and walk into the theatre to your seat. Visitors will even notice a familiar Red Bucket for donations.
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Can This Game-Changing Innovation Get Live Theatre Back Before the Pandemic Ends? (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2020
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(38,601 posts)1. Very cool
crickets
(25,983 posts)2. What a neat idea!
I couldn't quite get it to load completely, and will try again tomorrow when I'm not as tired, but for now I have questions: Can everyone sit front row center if they choose, or will there be specific seat assignments? Could this be a way for people who do not travel to be able to see a Broadway show?
So many possibilities.