Faye Wong's Singapore concert: Six days of set up for just one night

Faye Wong's Singapore concert: Six days of set up for just one night


SINGAPORE: Chinese pop diva Faye Wong's 'four seasons' themed concert at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in October, promises to be a grand affair.

The concert's promoter, Running Into The Sun, revealed that the concert will feature specially designed sets, excellent visual design and custom-made props – some of which are too big to be stored backstage at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

This makes for a dazzling show for the audience, but also a logistics headache for the production team.

"There are a lot of props and staging [preparations] for the concert, which stretches our setup to about six days.

"Besides all of that, we've also got [Wong's] entourage of about 100 people to coordinate and bring them together with our local technical team [as well as] suppliers," said the concert's producer, Wendy Ng, in an e-mail interview on Wednesday.

According to Ng, the concert costs a whopping S$3.3 million to stage, making it one of the most expensive Mandopop concerts ever put together in Singapore.

And they have only one performance to recover their costs as well as turn a profit.

"We would love to [have a second night], but unfortunately, her (Wong's) schedule does not permit her to," said Ng.

"We're the only country to stage her concert for one night so far.

"We understand the ticket prices are higher if we compare it to other Mandarin pop concerts, but the scale of the concerts are definitely different to begin with," Ng said, responding to recent reports highlighting the hefty S$580 price tag on VIP tickets to the concert.

Ng stressed that the 500 VIP tickets account for just 10 percent of the 5000 concert tickets available while more than 60 percent of the tickets to Wong's concert here are priced under S$280.

Tickets to Wong's Singapore concert, her first since she performed here in 1994, are the second cheapest in her concert tour, with tickets to her Hong Kong stop being the cheapest.

Tickets to the Singapore stop of the "Faye Wong 2011 Concert Tour" will go on sale from July 1 - 3 for OCBC card members and M1 customers.

Members of the public can purchase their tickets from July 4.

-CNA/ha

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