{"id":94061,"date":"2019-07-23T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/apollo-11-live-show-brings-the-moon-landing-to-life-in-pasadena"},"modified":"2019-07-23T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T04:22:27","slug":"apollo-11-live-show-brings-the-moon-landing-to-life-in-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/apollo-11-live-show-brings-the-moon-landing-to-life-in-pasadena","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Apollo 11\u2019 live show brings the moon landing to life in Pasadena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apollo-11-live-show-brings-the-moon-landing-to-life-in-pasadena3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing proved that America could meet President John F. Kennedy\u2019s challenge and beat Russia in the space race, man is walking on the moon once again. This time inside a Lunar Dome at the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApollo 11 \u2014 The Immersive Live Show,\u201d which is in previews and officially opens Wednesday, promises a multimedia spectacle under a gigantic $5-million dome designed to tell a big story in a big way: with live actors, documentary footage, archival audio, 360-degree video projection and props that will simulate a rocket launch and include a life-size re-creation of the lunar landing module. Yes, the one with funny foil hanging around it.<\/p>\n<p>The project is the brainchild of British producer Nick Grace, veteran of international tours of the musical \u201cMamma Mia!\u201d and Blue Man Group. (Grace\u2019s production is also at the center of an L.A. Times <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/extras.latimes.com\/ideasexchange\/2019\/apollo_11.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Ideas Exchange program<\/a> on July 20.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years after the Apollo 11 lunar landing proved that America could meet President John F. Kennedy\u2019s challenge and beat Russia in the space race, man is walking on the moon once again. This time inside a Lunar Dome at the Rose Bowl. \u201cApollo 11 \u2014 The Immersive Live Show,\u201d which is in previews and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}