Terracotta Warriors 3-D Brings New Experience To Stage

DENVER (CBS4)- A new production is trying to give audiences a new experience. Terracotta Warriors 3-D is a new way to tell a story on stage.

Dennis Law began his career as a surgeon but now he's a producer of a highly-entertaining musicals based on Chinese culture and history.

He's also trying to find new ways, technical ways, to tell a story on stage and fully engage the audience.

"If you're trying to bring together the two cultures, you've got to do something that really wows those people. I thought of changing my old version of Terracotta Warriors, a very popular subject, into the world's first 3-D stage musical," said Law.

The biggest problem was technological: finding and LED screen big enough and bright enough to make the effects seem real all the way to the back rows.

"And the 3-D qualities shocked me because it allowed, if I designed it, the content to fly towards my eye, like 80 percent of the distance between the screen and the viewer's eye. And as I went from side to side, the thing followed me in a 3-D format and not diminish the movement from side to side," said Law.

That gives the audience infinite depth in a show like they've never seen before.

"I think it accomplishes my professional goal was to deliver an inverse 3-D experience in a theatrical performance on stage that has never been seen before.

Terracotta Warriors 3-D is live on stage for four weeks at the Newman Center on the University of Denver campus August 11. Tickets are on sale now.