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Showtime at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games 2006-10-04
You can see by the order of the pictures the Olympic Stadium filling up with people. If memory serves me correctly, there were over 75,000 people there that night.
The Opening Ceremonies cast had over 17,000 people, mostly volunteers to be in the show, who gave countless hours of commitments and rehearsals to give a great show.
We had 60 in the orhcestra, but also had a 5,000 voice gospel choir lead by Kirk Franklin. There was a 2,500 voice kids choir that I wrote a special number for, plus The Three Divas, Aretha Franklin, Lisa Minnelli and Carly Simon as well as Teddy Pendagrass to sing the National Anthem and Christopher Reeve was the Master of Ceremonies.
The event was broadcast around the world. In a personal note, it was my birthday 16 August and my father saw me conducting in Atlanta, Georgia while he was watching the event in Adelaide, Australia. Of course, If I had known that, I would have waved to him!
The Opening Ceremonies was a terrific success and a very long evening, but I do not believe anyone left the event feeling they had missed anything. It was well worth the months of hard work, production meetings, composing etc. Back to 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games
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