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Wynn Las Vegas Brings Entertainment Back To The Strip With Debut Of The New Lake of Dreams
Original Artistic Team Reunites To Create Innovative New Show LAS VEGAS, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment returns to Wynn Las Vegas with the new
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[{"type":"text","content":"Original Artistic Team Reunites To Create Innovative New Show\n\n\nLAS VEGAS, Oct. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Entertainment returns to Wynn Las Vegas with the new Lake of Dreams, the only show to debut this fall anywhere on The Strip. Staged outdoors in an environmental theater with open-air patios for viewing, Lake of Dreams is uniquely suited for a socially distanced experience while providing all the glamour, excitement, and larger-than-life spectacle visitors expect from a Las Vegas show. In development for two years, the new Lake of Dreams is an immersive theatrical journey that unfolds over 12 high-tech artistically diverse new acts that combine magic, lights, film, music, sculpture, and puppetry.\n\n \n \n\n \n\"I am proud that Wynn Las Vegas is the first casino resort to bring back the kind of big, bold entertainment experience The Strip has been waiting for,\" said Matt Maddox, CEO of Wynn Resorts. \nFifteen years after Lake of Dreams first opened in 2005, the original artistic team of world-renowned creators reunited for the 2020 reimagining, including director Kenny Ortega, production designer Michael Curry, and lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe. Joining the principal team are sound designer Peter Hylenski and video design director Gary Jaeger. To deliver the show during a pandemic and overcome international travel restrictions, all artists and engineers worked remotely as much as possible with Woodroffe directing lighting virtually from his studio in London, and Ortega and Curry taking turns overseeing the show's direction and installation at the resort alongside Wynn's entertainment general manager Rick Gray.\n\"Artistic collaboration, imagination, and innovation in technology have inspired our journey over the past two years to bring all-new state-of-the-art entertainment to Lake of Dreams,\" said Ortega. \"In this lush and serene mountain-scape, waterfall, and lake environment, towering puppetry and animatronics burst to life. This one-of-a-kind living theatre features music, filmed live action, animation, visual effects, and inspired production design coming together in a dazzling spectacle of light and magic.\"\nTo execute the technologically advanced new acts, a $14 million state-of-the-art upgrade touched every facet of the custom-built outdoor environmental theater, which consists of a central 45-foot by 90-fo...