Walking With Dinosaurs
After 65 million years, the award-winning Walking with Dinosaurs roared into the Manchester Arena from Wednesday 29 July to Sunday 2 August 2009.
Check out the review from the Manchester below:
"AS comebacks go, they don't
get much bigger than this. Some 65 million years since they last
walked the earth, dinosaurs one again roared and reigned supreme
for the entertainment of a packed Manchester Arena.
History really is spectacularly brought back to life in this
monster of a show. And seeing as it's based on the award
winning BBC series, it's also packed full of facts and figures,
taking the audience through the evolution of the giant beasts from
their first existence through to extinction.
From the moment the first dinosaurs enter the vast stage in the
centre of the arena, there are gasps of excitement all around. And
it's not just the children who are left wide mouthed in
amazement at the creatures that are apparently living, breathing
and blinking before you. It's not hard to see where the
£10million lavished on this production, that has come to
Britain after sell out tours of Australia and America, has gone.
The dinosaurs are brought to life by a crack team of puppeteers and
animatronics in amazing detail. "I think they're
real" whispered my four-year-old guest for the evening,
a sentiment seemingly echoed by entranced youngsters across
the Arena.
But this is not a show just for the kids, it's a truly
entertaining theatrical show, as magical for those aged three as
93. Even the Triassic vegetation on the impressive stage set
manages to have a life of its own.
The first half of the show sees palaeontologist character Huxley
talking us through the extraordinary adventure of the dino story.
Predictably, it's the largest dinosaurs in the production - the
56 foot long Brachiosaurus that gets the biggest reaction. But even
bigger thrills are to come in the second half, when that most
famous of dinosaurs - the Tyrannosaurus Rex lurches out to more
'oohs and ahs' from the audience.
The action culminates in a spectacular clash of the titans -
although there's nothing too scary in this family-friendly
show. When each dino costs £300,000 a piece, the creators
probably don't fancy repairing Jurassic wounds to their
creatures each night! There's been many a showbiz megastar
through the Arena doors over the years, but never anything quite of
this scale or ambition in town before. If you get a chance, get a
ticket, you really will be astounded."
