Macau (MNA) – Studio City has presented its new indoor theatrical stunt show Elēkron, including only vehicles powered by US electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla.
The 75-minute show, which will be launched in December of this year, will showcase more than 70 powerful electric vehicles – including sports cars, customised buggies, quads, trials bikes, FMX bikes and a biplane – with all the vehicles being bespoke and designed from scratch, and powered by Tesla motors with a custom-designed control system.
The electric cars involved are said to be able to produce power equivalent to a 500bhp petrol engine car and go from 0 to 60mph in 3.5 seconds.
The show also involves 150 cast members, including international stunt drivers and riders, aerialists, parkour acrobats, pyrotechnic and fire performers, as well as world-class circus artists – including a local Macau stunt bike rider and Guinness World Record holder Kangaroo Kid.
The crew includes members from the UK, the US, Finland, Canada, China, Germany, Australia, the Czech Republic and Uruguay, with Elēkron’s team of choreographers and performers having worked on London’s West End, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House, and Cirque du Soleil.
Early-bird ticket sales for the show – which will run from December 14, 2018 to March 31, 2019 – will be sold until November 30
‘Powered entirely by electricity, Elēkron is a crazy, death-defying stunt show is nothing like you have ever seen before. Seventy wild post-apocalyptic cars, bikes and buggies are leaping over each other, as their drivers fight over the abandoned power station where the story’s set,’ the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Brand Officer of Melco Resorts and Entertainment, Frederic Winckler, was quoted as saying in a company release.
The new show was created by Stufish Entertainment Architects, a company with a large portfolio of theatrical and musical productions, touring shows, concerts, and permanent/temporary entertainment architecture.
The portfolio of the company founded by late British architect Mark Fisher includes concert tours such as Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, the Rolling Stones No Filter tour, the exhibition design for Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains exhibition at the London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics 2008.
