Volume 1, No. 14. August 10, 2001
New Arrivals
PHOTO of performers dancing on the water at Terra Mitica.
It's a night extravaganza!
Terra Mitica in Benidorm, Spain, announces the
arrival of "The Secret of the Lake" July 27, 2001. Measurements: 20 minutes,
six scenes, one water screen 25 meters wide and 13 meters high (82 and 43 feet),
one fountain 14 meters long (46 feet) with two 15-meter-high geysers (49 feet),
eight canons firing flames 12 meters high (40 feet), 100 cast and crew.
When the 1,050,000-square-meter Terra Mitica (3.5 million square feet) opened
last summer striving for new heights in authentic theming based on classical
Mediterranean civilizations, it duly celebrated the event with a special effects
extravaganza on the park's centerpiece lagoon. So, when its first anniversary
rolled around, Terra Mitica decided to revise the effects with a new show that
will play through the rest of the summer.
Totally produced in-house, "The Secret of the Lake" runs every night just before
the park closes. With actors performing on a floating platform (it looks like
they are walking and dancing on the water itself), the show depicts the cultures
of the park's five themed areas—Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Iberian, and "Las
Islas" (mythological times)—played out under huge columns of water and
fire, pyrotechnics blasting off from the lake and a computerized film projected
onto a water screen.