Cybersphere: Playing in September

There is still one more Saturday in August (the 25th) for you to see Lamps of Atlantis (2&7 pm), Laser Spirit (3&8 pm), and Laser Hypnotica (4&9 pm), so come on out to see them before they go away for awhile. Here’s what will be playing next month!

Showing during September 2012 on Saturdays in the Cybersphere Digital Theater
– Note: The Cybersphere will be closed on September 29th –

Secret of the Cardboard Rocket

2:00 & 7:00 PM | Rated G | Tickets: $5 | Full-Dome Animation

One of the most popular space journeys for children and their families has been “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket.” Thanks to new tools and talent at the Clark Planetarium, you’ll see and feel the highest levels of detail and animation of any planetarium in the world. In the most dynamic fashion possible, the young star travelers are back to show you what could only be dreamed of before. From the boiling surface of the sun… to the icy rings of Saturn… children of all ages will be mesmerized by the incredible scenery in motion that only the Clark Planetarium can offer.

Laser Pop

3:00 & 8:00 PM | Rated G | Tickets: $6 | Musical Laser Show

1) Pop (N’Sync)
2) Get This Party Started (Pink)
3) Beatles Medley (The Beatles)
4) I’m A Believer (Smashmouth)
5) Desert Rose (Sting)
6) Beach Boys Medley (The Beach Boys)
7) Cosmic Thing (B-52s)
8) Digital Get Down (N’Sync)
9) Kryptonite (3 Doors Down)

Laser X

4:00 & 9:00 PM | Rated PG | Tickets: $6 | Musical Laser Show

1) Lost (Stabbing Westward)
2) Bulls on Parade (Rage Against the Machine)
3) Zero (Smashing Pumpkins)
4) Park Avenue (Girls Against Boys)
5) Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters)
6) Would (Alice in Chains)
7) Push It (Garbage)
8) Sunshower (Chris Cornell)
9) Guilty (Gravity Kills)
10) Shame (Stabbing Westward)
11) Block Rockin’ Beats (Chemical Brothers)
12) Du Hast (Rammstein)
13) More Human Than Human (White Zombie)

Cybersphere Schedule: March-May 2011

It’s that time again. I present to you the Cybersphere’s schedule for the next 3 months!

March

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Kaluoka’hina: The Enchanted Reef
2 & 7:00 PM | Rated G
$6 per person

The vastness of our planet’s oceans guards unimaginable secrets. One of its most precious is “Kaluoka’hina,” the enchanted reef whose magic protects it against humans finding it. Kaluoka’hina’s colorful inhabitants live in peace until the volcano erupts, and the spell is broken. Now it’s up to Jake, the young sawfish, and his paranoid pal, Shorty, to restore the magic of Kaluoka’hina.

Spacepark 360
3 & 8:00 PM | Rated G
$6 per person

Thrilling Rides, Exotic Destinations, One Immersive Experience

You’re in for a wild and immersive experience as you travel to exotic vistas throughout our solar system and enjoy 9 thrilling amusement park rides, including roller coasters, pendulums, inverters and more.

Quicksilver on Mercury
Twin Tornadoes on Venus
The Tumbler on Earth
AresXpress on Mars
Vertigo on Jupiter
CH4 on Titan
Delirious in the Rings of Uranus
Black Hole Coaster on Triton
Diablo on Io

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon
4 & 9:00 PM | Rated PG
$6 per person

Digistar 3 Edition – Full Dome Animation (No Laser)

Speak to Me
Breathe
On the Run
Time
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Color You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

April & May

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Africa: The Serengeti
2 & 7:00 PM | Rated G
$6 per person

The Serengeti is a huge area of grassland in Tanzania, Africa. Once a year, in the time of drought, about two million herd animals, like wildebeests, travel north to feed and mate before moving south again, when plants there begin to blossom.

Laser Magic
3 & 8:00 PM | Rated G
$6 per person

Santorini  –  Yanni
Godzilla  –  Blue Oyster Cult
Love Gets Me Every Time  –  Shania Twain
Men in Black  –  Will Smith
My Heart Will Go On  –  Celine Dion
Storms in Africa  –  Enya
Money  –  Pink Floyd
Semi-Charmed Life  –  Third Eye Blind
Time Warp  –  cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show
Diana (Candle In The Wind ’97)  –  Elton John
Don’t Speak  –  No Doubt
The Hunter  –  Björk
I Love Rock & Roll  –  Joan Jett
Rock Lobster  –  the B-52s
Tub Thumping  –  Chumbawamba

Laser Zeppelin
4 & 9:00 PM | Rated PG
$6 per person

Song Remains the Same
Over the Hills and Far Away
Good Times, Bad Times
Immigrant Song
No Quarter
Black Dog
Livin’, Lovin’ Maid
Kashmir
Stairway to Heaven
Whole Lotta Love
Rock n’ Roll

Cybersphere Schedule: April 3rd – August 6th

Hey guys. The new Cybersphere schedule for April 3^rd through August 6^th is now available. As you can see, this schedule covers just over a 4 month period. Important things to note about this schedule:

• The Cybersphere will be closed May 1^st and 8^th
• The Renaissance Center is closed the last week of May, July 2, and second week of August.
• During the months of June, July, and the first week of August, shows will be running on Friday nights at 6, 7, and 8 o’ clock.

The Future of the Cybersphere’s Show Schedule

Okay, so the current “randomized” show schedule hasn’t really made a big splash yet. Granted, I shouldn’t expect much because it IS the beginning of the year, but I was thinking… Before, we played the same set of shows for 2 months at a time… this is way too long. Now, my change to the schedule, while it lets more popular shows come around more often, even I can’t remember what’s being shown without looking at the schedule I made. I think for the next schedule, I’m going to make the same set of shows play for a month at a time. Not too long, not too short. We’ll see how it works out.

Cybersphere: A New Schedule

In the past, I’d continued to run shows the way they had always been run, but starting this week, I’ve decided to mix it up a little. I’ve been trying different things to encourage people to come see shows, most of which were discounts in various forms. This time however, rather than discounts (which proved unsuccessful), I’ve decided to change the show schedule.

Instead of running the same set of shows for a number of weeks, usually 2 months worth, I’m going to be changing up the shows every single week. I’ll be laying out the schedule for the Cybersphere 3 months at a time; in this case, January through March, etc.

My reasoning for trying this is that attendance for public shows tended to act in a bell curve fashion. When a set of shows first started, the attendance was low. Then it would pick up a bit and level off before declining towards the end of the run. Perhaps with the schedule laid out with ever changing shows, it might encourage people to come more often.

There’s no harm in trying this; if anything, the shows people ask about most often will be playing more often.

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Cybersphere: Nov – Dec 09

Mystery of the Christmas Star
Rated G

• 2:00 PM – $4
• 7:00 PM – $5

Journey back 2000 years to Bethlehem as we seek to discover a scientific explanation for the Star the wise men followed to find the baby Jesus. We’ll investigate possible dates for the birth of Christ and look at recorded sightings of significant astronomical events during this timeframe. We’ll see which of these signs in the sky could have been remarkable enough to cause the wise men to travel across the desert from Babylon to Bethlehem just to see a newborn King. This modern retelling of the Christmas story is sure to charm and captivate audiences of all ages.

Laser Holidays
Rated G

• 3:00 PM – $4
• 8:00 PM – $5

1) Sleigh Ride  –  Leroy Anderson

2) Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy  –  Tchaikovsky

3) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer  –  Burl Ives

4) Winter Wonderland  –  Eurythmics

5) Deck the Halls  –  Philharmonic Orchestra

6) Jingle Bell Rock  –  Randy Travis

7) White Christmas  –  Bing Crosby

8) Christmastime  –  Smashing Pumpkins

9) Oiche Chiun (Silent Night)  –  Enya

10) Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree  –  Ronnie Spector / Darlene Love

11) Frosty the Snowman  –  Cocteau Twins

12) Carol of the Bells  –  David Foster

13) The Christmas Song  –  Nat King Cole

14) All I Want For Christmas Is You  –  Mariah Carey

15) We Wish You A Merry Christmas  –  James Galway

Christmas Laser Fantasy
Rated G – Featuring Mannheim Steamroller –

• 9:00 PM – $5
  

1) Hark! The Herald Trumpets Sing

2) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

3) O Come All Ye Faithful

4) Carol of the Bells

5) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

6) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

7) Christmas Lullaby

8) Wassail, Wassail

9) Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella

10) Good King Wenceslas

11) Deck the Halls

12) Silent Night

Cybersphere: October 2009

CYBERSPHERE DIGITAL THEATER

October 3^rd – October 31^st

Cosmic Safari
Rated G

• 2:00 PM – $4
• 7:00 PM – $5

The search for life in the universe begins as we travel to yet undiscovered planets in the far reaches of space. In differing environmental conditions, you’ll discover what living creatures might look like on worlds very different from our own. From the giant insect-like life forms on low-gravity planets, to the highly muscular star-shaped creatures on high-gravity worlds, Cosmic Safari transforms scientific theory into exotic worlds filled with fantastic creatures never before imagined.

Microcosm – The Adventure Within
Rated G

At the Center of Miniaturized Medicine in the year 2053, you’ll shrink down to the size of a microbe and get injected into a patient who is suffering an infection from a mysterious virus. Produced in cooperation with the University of Utah Medical School, this high-speed immersive adventure is not only exciting, but educational as well. Traveling from the base of the eye to the interior of the heart, you’ll explore exotic ports of call in CMM Probe Alpha with its robotic outboard scout vehicle. As you piece together the clues the virus has left behind, you’ll race against time to save the patient on your roller-coaster ride through the body. Laser battles, genetic weapons, and lots of surprises along the way, make this a show audiences will want to experience again and again.

Fright Light
Rated G

• 3:00 PM – $4
• 8:00 PM – $5

1) Thriller – Michael Jackson

2) Godzilla – Blue Oyster Cult

3) Monster Medley

Monster Mash – Boris Pickett

Purple People Eater – Warren Zevon

Boris the Spider – the Who

4) Enter Sandman – Metallica

5) Men In Black – Will Smith

6) Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters – Weird Al Yankovic

7) Firestarter – Prodigy

8) Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo

9) Iron Man – Black Sabbath

10) Another Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd

11) Push It – Garbage

12) Frankenstein – Edgar Winters Group

13) Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band

14) Feed My Frankenstein – Alice Cooper

Laser Metallica
Rated PG13

• 9:00 PM – $5

1) For Whom the Bell Tolls

2) Ain’t My Bitch

3) Fuel

4) One

5) Nothing Else Matters

6) Master of Puppets

7) Unforgiven II

8) Sad But True

9) Enter Sandman

Cybersphere: Aug-Sep 09

Here’s the current Cybersphere schedule since I wasn’t posting at the time we moved into it

August 15th – September 26th

$4 Tickets
2 PM	Force 5
3 PM	Laser Spirit
$5 Tickets
7 PM	Force 5
8 PM	Laser Spirit
9 PM	Laser No Doubt

Buy tickets to two different shows on the same day and receive $1 off.
Buy tickets to three different shows on the same day and receive $3 off.
Tickets must be purchased at the same time to receive the discount.

Closing Week #1

Here it is folks, the first of the two weeks the Center is going to be closed during the summer (the second being the last week of July) and this marks the beginning of no Saturdays until the second week of August. Since I’ll be stuck at home for the most part, away from fast internet (relatively speaking), you might not hear from me a whole lot until the 2nd of June, if at all.

So until next time kiddies, have fun and stay safe!

Friday Night Lites

Just as a reminder about what we’re going to be doing this summer at the Sphere. We’re going to be doing shows on Friday nights starting June 5th and lasting until August 7th at 7 and 8 pm, so come on down and see the show!

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