Outwit. Outplay. Outlast. At a theme park near you...
Survivor will now be a theme park audience-participation stage show. Here's the explanation:
CBS Consumer Products has sealed a deal to bring the stage show
"Survivor: Live" to three theme parks this summer, with the potential
to expand to additional parks in future years.
Eye has partnered with RWS and Associates to create the interactive show. "Survivor" exec producer Mark Burnett was consulted but was not actively involved in setting up the stage show.
"Audience
involvement is key to the success of 'Survivor,' and we've been looking
to make that tangible and real," said Liz Kalodner, exec VP and general
manager of CBS Consumer Products. "It took us a little time to create
something that replicated the essence of the show."
The show will
debut May 2 at Denver's Elitch Gardens and Oklahoma City's Frontier
City. A third show will open May 23 at the Darien Lake Theme Park
Resort in Darien Center, N.Y.
The half-hour "Survivor: Live" will
use clips from the TV series -- as well as actors portraying previous
contestants -- and divide the audience into four "tribes." Volunteers
from the crowd will go through a series of four challenges, leading
eventually to a sole winner.
"It includes all the key elements of
what's on TV," Kalodner said. "Cooperation, competition, physical and
mental challenges, immunity, tribal council, torches, a jury and an
ultimate vote."
The "Survivor: Live" winner won't actually be awarded a prize, however.
What? No prize? That sucks. Not even a giant stuffed Naked Richard Hatch? Nah, probably too disturbing.
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