Riverdance is Back in Singapore till 12 December

30 November 2010, Singapore – I caught the opening show of Riverdance, The Farewell Tour today.   The cast would not be coming back to this part of the region again before heading off to the other parts of the world.   Incidentally it was also the first public performance to be held at the Marina Bay Sand’s Sands Theatre.

Even though Riverdance has been to Singapore 10 years ago, today was my first experience.  If you are not familiar with Riverdance, the show focuses on the evolution of Irish dance, capturing the imagination of audiences across all ages and cultures.  Riverdance evokes many sensory experiences including sight, sound and emotions.  I have to say these performers have to be rather fit and full of energy to do what they do on stage for almost 2 hours!   There was so much energy, I wanted to jump up and dance while watching the performance.

The opening act immediately brings me back to a white Christmas during my good old school days in the US.  To me, Christmas has arrived earlier this year.  First it was the Orchard Road light up 2 weeks ago, the subsequent Hippo Ride with Canon last weekend, and the many Christmas festive hotel promotions that have recently been uploaded onto SUPERADRIANME.com.  The women came onto the stage dressed in Green and Red looking like Santarinas.

The crisp angelic voice during the acapella segment blew me away.  Look out for that!!

The 4 person musician team were simply amazing.  With the only lady in the team supporting on violin, I was amazed with the resulting audio experience that these 4 talented people could produce.

If you have not gotten tickets yet, visit www.marinabaysands.com/riverdance.aspx, or call SISTIC at +65 6348 5555.

Did you Know …

Music and Lyrics were written by Bill Whelan, produced by Moya Doherty, and directed by John McColgan.

Riverdance is the development of an original idea by Moya Doherty, which was initially performed at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Dublin in April 1994 as a seven-minute interval act.

Riverdance began performances in Dublin in 1995

In its first 15 years, the show has played over 10,000 performances, seen live by over 22 million people in over 300 venues worldwide, throughout 32 countries, across 4 continents, travelled 563,000 miles, played to a global television audience of over 2 billion people, sold over 3 million copies of the Grammy Award-winning CD and sold over 10 million Riverdance videos and DVDs.

There has also been:

1500 Irish Dancers | 14,000 Dance shoes used | 12,000 Costumes worn | 200,000 gallons of water consumed | 60,000 gallons of Gatorade consumed | 1,650,000 Show Programmes sold | 1,500 flight cases used | 12,000 stage lighting bulbs used | 40,000 boxes of tissues used | 16,250 guitar, base and fiddle strings replaced | 284,000 t-shirts sold | 35 Marriages between company members | 20000 cumulative years of study in step-dancing by Irish dancers | 45,000 rolls of self-grip tape used by company physiotherapists.

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