Ben Hur Live

Ben Hur Live
German fold-out flyer
German flyer (opened) - Klaus Badelt still mentioned as composer
ad in Hellweger Anzeiger - February 28, 2009
a ticket for the show
Basic information
Composed by:	Stewart Copeland
Composed in:	2009
Length:	XX minutes
Premiere date:	2009-09-17
Premiere venue:	O2 Arena
Premiere location:	London, England, UK

Introduction

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Background

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Rehearsal history

Rehearsals for this event happened in the ISS Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany from June 22 to August 7, 2009. These rehearsals took place while the temporary music was played (no orchestra yet) combined with Stewart's narration.

Stewart Copeland worked on the music for Ben Hur Live in Düsseldorf between 2009-07-14 and 2009-08-05 at the Skyline Tonfabrik. He rarely attended the rehearsals.

The last day of rehearsals in Düsseldorf took place in front of a small audience of sponsors and guests. These people received a folder with a German booklet about the production, some flyers and a CD-Rom including artwork and 4 tracks by Stewart Copeland.

costumes

CD-Rom giveaway

rehearsal

ships with effects and lights

Further rehearsals were planned to take place in Tours, France. But as the venue turned out to be too small for this production rehearsals went on in Oberhausen, Germany at the König-Pilsener-Arena (scheduled to take place between August 9 and September 10, 2009).

On 2009-09-08 - about 1000 people at Oberhausen's König-Pilsener-Arena witnessed the first complete performance of the show. The tickets were given away to schools and charity organizations for free. The show now included costumes, enhanced effects, more animals (no bicycles anymore) - and a German narrator at the start and end of each act (with the English Stewart narration in between, because the German narration was not yet recorded). Several hundred costumes were still missing - they will be brought from Thailand within the week until the London premiere. The chariot race ended with a minor injury by one of the stuntmen.

In the evening of the same day a second rehearsal show in front of a test audience was performed. This time Stewart Copeland acted as a narrator - in person. The chariot race was not performed that evening as the horses were too exhausted.

Performance history

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• On 2010-01-28 it was announced that the scheduled performances of Ben Hur Live in Vienna had been cancelled.[1] The news announcement for the cancellation read:

The BEN HUR LIVE show dates scheduled for 5th/6th February 2010 in Gelsenkirchen and 9th /10th 
February 2010 in Vienna are cancelled.

Due to an external file of bankruptcy, ART CONCERTS GmbH, producer and promoter of the show can't 
guarantee the realization of the performances.

We plan to perform new shows on 21st /22nd May 2010 in Gelsenkirchen and on 24th /25th April or 
26th /27th May in Vienna with a new company founded by investors in order to satisfy ticket 
holders. This is the highest motivation of everybody involved.

Cancellation and refunding of tickets for performances in Gelsenkirchen are legally not possible 
before nomination of a liquidator and unrealistic due to illiquidity.

Ticket buyers from Vienna will be informed separately, as we are still in negotiation with the 
local ticket dealers.

In this respect we would like to ask you wait for reactivation in order to see the show.

We ask you to desist from inquiry directly to the ticket dealers, as only ART CONCERTS is currently 
dealing with ticket cancellation.

Please read also the separate letter to our ticket holders.

We would like to apologize to all concerned parties for this development.

Release History

Ben Hur Live appears on the following album releases:

Cover art	Album title	Release date	Release country
	Ben Hur Live (press CD-Rom)	2009-08-07	Germany

Quotations and trivia

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See also

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External links

Ref: http://www.benhurlive.com/

References

sources: internet (see external links), German newspapers