The horses are often donated by show-jumping trainers, and choosing the most suitable ones can be something of an art, explained Philip Harland, the riding director for the London Olympics.
Along for the ride were director Stanley Donen, producer Roger Edens, conductor Adolph Deutsch, orchestrator Conrad Salinger, and arranger Skip Martin.
"We're determined that from those opening chords – the best ever written – the whole opera is a white-knuckle rollercoaster ride," the director says.
Meet Lego's latest, and most menacing, take on the Tumbler, the Caped Crusader's ride from director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy of films.
"But it's not always a smooth ride with directors, and sometimes the music suffers.
Across the museum's grounds, past the Kuwait Arena ("Tracked vehicle rides – £3"), director David Ayer has commandeered a hangar.
Uber believes its riders spend tens of millions of dollars at merchants shortly before and after rides, its Director Of Partner Management Marco Mahrus tells me.
Having taken on supernatural horrors in vampires and werewolves, "Twilight" and "Red Riding Hood" director Catherine Hardwicke is turning to a real life scare: angry teenage girls.
THE MISSING Directed by Ron Howard; written by Ken Kaufman, based on the novel "The Last Ride" by Thomas Eidson; director of photography, Salvatore Totino; edited by Dan Hanley and Mike Hill; music by James Horner; art director, Guy Barnes; produced by Brian Grazer, Daniel Ostroff and Mr. Howard; released by Columbia Pictures and Revolution Studios.
"It's going to be a very interesting and hairy ride," said Steven Fielding, director of the Center for British Politics at Nottingham University.
