Kung Fu Panda live show to debut at Venetian Macau later this year
- Tony Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman to helm Kung Fu Panda Spectacular Live
- The production will see the worlds of musical theatre, circus and Hollywood come together
The smash-hit animated franchise Kung Fu Panda is coming to life for a stage production in Macau starting at the end of this year, production company Broadway Asia announced today.
The show, which will be a resident production at The Venetian Macau, is the product of a collaboration between Broadway Asia and Hollywood animation studio DreamWorks, which created the nearly US$2 billion global box office phenomenon.
And yes, it will include a performer in a big panda suit. That is according to Tony Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, who took on direction of Kung Fu Panda Spectacular Live as her first Asia-based project.
“It’s a real cross of musical theatre, cirque and Hollywood, all those worlds coming together … along with the art of kung fu,” says Stroman of the production.
To transform the animated film into an onstage spectacle, Stroman assembled a cast of 51 martial artists, acrobats, dancers, trampoliners, bungee and slackwire artists, and parkour practitioners, hailing from 19 countries.