ABBA’s Voyage present premiered in London Friday evening (Might 27) with the 4 members current as their pioneering avatars had been seen on stage.
The digital characters took Industrial Gentle and Magic over a billion hours of processing time to finish, and had been created after Agnetha Fältskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad spent 5 hours a day for a month in entrance of 160 motion-capture models.
The whole set record will be seen under.
Media reviews had been usually optimistic, with reviewers noting that, after a brief interval of adjustment, it was simple to really feel as if the complete efficiency was dwell, slightly than the “ABBA-tars” performing alongside a real-life band. Some mentioned the {custom} lighting show helped present a way of depth, though others felt the characters delivered a much less convincing impact on the massive screens. “To be or to not be – that’s now not the query,” Andersson’s avatar mentioned at one level. “That is the actual me – I simply look superb for my age.”
A number of of the band’s largest hits had been lacking from the set record, resulting in the suggestion that the present will change over time. The BBC reported that the 3000-capacity custom-built ABBA Enviornment could possibly be packed onto vans for potential residencies elsewhere on the planet.
“We’ll see the way it goes in London,” Andersson mentioned. “Are individuals actually serious about coming to see this? If they’re, sure, it’ll proceed. In the event that they’re not coming, then we simply shut.” Producer Svana Gisla added: “We need to pull on the feelings. So when you come out of right here and really feel such as you’ve seen a visible spectacle, we can have failed. When you come out of right here and you have laughed and also you’ve cried and you may’t wait to return, that’s what we would like.”
The present closed with ABBA themselves taking a bow, though they didn’t say something to the group.
The Actual ABBA Take a Bow
ABBA ‘Voyage’ Set Record
1. “The Guests”
2. “Gap In Your Soul”
3. “SOS”
4. “Realizing Me, Realizing You”
5. “Chiquitita”
6. “Fernando”
7. “Mamma Mia”
8. “Does Your Mom Know?”
9. “Eagle”
10. “Lay All Your Love On Me”
11. “Summer time Evening Metropolis”
12. “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”
13. “Voulez-Vous”
14. “When All Is Mentioned And Achieved”
15. “Do not Shut Me Down”
16. “I Nonetheless Have Religion In You”
17. “Waterloo”
18. “Dancing Queen”
19. “Thank You For The Music”
20. “The Winner Takes It All”
