You might expect towering video screens in here, or something bulky and three-dimensional, requiring circling — entering, even.
Four actors do not a sweeping fantasy make, but Ms. Fogarty tries to puff up the scale of this show with towering video effects of floating heads and blurry landscapes out of a soap commercial.
For thumping electro songs from "Hard Candy" she had the album's hip-hop guests — Kanye West, and Pharrell Williams — performing on towering video screens, sharing the proudly mercantile sentiments of songs like "Candy Shop".
Along the way, with towering video projections on the scrims, there are allusions to the ancient elements as well as to science (giant red blood cells) and to Nature, with one magnificent scene that has the troupe performing amid giant vines.
The enormous makeshift stage from which the Met orchestra and chorus performed was flanked by towering video screens offering close-ups not just of the evening's glamorous guest stars and the conductor Ion Marin but also of musicians in the orchestra at pivotal moments during crucial solos.
Between bursts of cascading water from the top of the towers, huge video images of 1,000 different faces -- a cross-section of Chicagoans -- will materialize from behind the glass blocks, with streams of water spurting from lips.
Jack Swarbrick, Notre Dame's athletic director, said Thursday that an "extraordinary burst of wind" roared across the football practice fields Wednesday, toppling a video tower and killing Declan Sullivan, a 20-year-old student manager for the team.
The death of Declan Sullivan, a student who was toppled on a video tower in high winds while filming a practice, cast a pall over the season and the school year.
Deputy Fire Chief Charles R. Blaich said that even though almost no smoke could be seen coming up from the north tower site, the video showed that the smoldering still continued underground, as it did at the south tower, where smoke and steam was obvious.
Last month, 20-year-old junior Declan Sullivan was filming a team practice from a video tower when it collapsed, and Sullivan fell to his death.
The da Vinci consists of a surgeon's console, four robotic arms, and a video tower [6].
