Video: Turn On the Dark with a BATMAN LIVE Trailer

Posted on 05/23/11 at 1:16 PM in Articles by Paul Montgomery 16 Comments

Batman is going on tour, and we're not talking about Grant Morrison's Batman Inc or Bruce Wayne's regularly scheduled inspection of his cog and sprocket manufacturing plant in Bangalore. No, we're talking about gypsies. And by gypsies we mean dancers and actors trying to make it in the soul-crushing world of theatrical performance! It's the Batman Live World Arena Tour!

Now, combining the Batman mythos with a Cirque du Soleil style theatrical experience might sound odd. It is. But there's a method to the madness. And it's that madness is typically fun. 

See, even Damian is into it. Though he'll probably play understudy to other Robins less prone to spur lawsuits and pyrotechnic mishaps.

Now, we heard about this curious production last year, and it sounded a little like this: 

 

But it turns out there's Bullet Time, and it's actually much more like this, according to AintItCoolNews: 

 

 

Wanna go? Here's a list of the initial European stops. American dates forthcoming. 

        

 

For more information and some flash animation of bats flying around, check out Batman Live's official website. 

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  1. Trichon Trichon says:
    May 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    Hopefully it comes somewhere close in the US for me.  Would love to take my little girl to this.

  2. JZga JZga says:
    May 23, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    No.

  3. kaydawg25 kaydawg25 says:
    May 23, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    i hope its nothing like the spiderman live…

  4. CaseyJustice CaseyJustice says:
    May 23, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Yes. For the love of god, yes.

    I say this completely without irony: I would love to see a super campy Batman adventure live on stage.

  5. markfg markfg says:
    May 23, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    all those venues are arenas rather than theatres so its far easier for them to do stunts just because of the space they will have , it will i imagine be staged on the arena floor where standing spectators would normally be for concerts

  6. Henrik Henrik says:
    May 23, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    I got my tickets a month ago. They’re for october.
    My son can’t wait for the summer to be over.

  7. ericmci ericmci says:
    May 23, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    No- just No.

     

  8. kennyg kennyg says:
    May 23, 2011 at 4:05 pm

    @ericmci   Oh Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes!

    I’d go see it, even if it were cheesy.

  9. kennyg kennyg says:
    May 23, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Wait… why the hell did Robocop pop out at 1:23 on the Marvel parade float? WTF?

    That was so horrible. (Shudder)

  10. worf77bb says:
    May 23, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    My sdon would LOVE this.  It should come to the states next year I think I hersd.

  11. Xomneon Xomneon says:
    May 23, 2011 at 5:45 pm

    Awesome. I’m buying tickets.

  12. optic00085 optic00085 says:
    May 23, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    …..What?!

  13. ericmci ericmci says:
    May 23, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    kennyg-  What do you mean- “if” ?

     

  14. SamIAm says:
    May 23, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    I love how the back to the future theme is playing for the Marvel act. Awesome!

  15. Superyan Superyan says:
    May 24, 2011 at 9:10 am

    @SamIAm  - yeah what’s up with them playing BTTF theme???? lol

  16. Superyan Superyan says:
    May 24, 2011 at 9:11 am

    As for the Batman Live show, I’d see it!  Looks fun and hopefully less dangerous than the Spider-man broadway show lol

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