On December 4th, many millions watched The
Amazing Race contestants enter the largest water extravaganza stage show in the world today. Though there were many groups
involved in the building of the City of Dreams Theatre in China, Handling
Specialty played a huge roll in the realization of its spectacular show; The
House of Dancing Water.
Macau is located on the western bank of the Pearl River
Delta in southern Guangdong, China and lies some 60 kilometers to the west of
Hong Kong. The Amazing Race took their
contestants to the underwater stage show to test the teams and discover who
would be moving on to the next exotic location.
The purpose-built theater was designed with many
breakthroughs including Handling Specialty’s 11 hydraulic stage lifts, which are
used to transform the pool into a spectacular stage in less than a minute. The
contestants were made-up to look like the performers in the show and asked to
jump from the heights Handling Specialty’s underwater scissor lifts took them
and into the circular pool below.
The stage project in Macau,
China was a
massive undertaking for the minds of Handling Specialty’s sales, engineering
and manufacturing talents. The project is maintained by Handling Specialty and
has enjoyed a very lucrative first five years in operation.
