The coverage included news reports Deodato believed to be staged, an idea which became an integral aspect of the film's story.
Students would go on the stage, present an idea, it would succeed or fail, that's it.
At the culmination of the "Bullet to Blue Sky" to "Running to Stand Still" sequence, red and yellow smoke flares came out from either end of the stage (an idea of U2's security chief, who was a U.S. Vietnam veteran), as the coda segued into "Where the Streets Have No Name".
But the idea of staging a summer music festival there, devoted mostly to contemporary works, is inspired.
Scudamore said he had given up on the idea of staging a 39th round of Premier League games internationally.
Twenty years after the formal dismantling of apartheid, this venturesome studio theatre has had the bright idea of staging a South Africa season.
Civilised order confronts unbridled anarchy in Northampton this summer, where Laurie Sansom has had the imaginative idea of staging a trilogy dubbed Festival of Chaos.
The idea of staging a performance at the Colosseum during 2000, a Holy Year of the Roman Catholic Church, came from Italy's Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico, an organization dedicated to staging classic works in ancient settings.
The idea of staging a seven-way TV debate in a real-life British election, however, is completely new territory, yet that is now what is happening.
"Since the three main characters of the movie have the ability to fly, we came up with the idea of staging a few "flying people" sightings around NYC.
