Big City Lights Show in Sochi. Producing Company Ilya Averbukh.
00:06
I call Sochi, right here, right now, a city of the future, you know, like in America, they have Florida, right? We too have our Florida. We were very much afraid that after the Olympics something would go wrong there again, like maybe get dirty or something. Nothing of the kind! The city is clean, European style, with a Russian flavour. The first thing that struck me was, wow, those are some roads! Then I was also struck by the airport, and the railway station. I mean, those are two very important things, first impressions of a city, you know.
00:48
For example, the Shayba stadium is opening a children's figure-skating school in Sochi; the Bolshoy Ice Dome, starting next season, will have an ice hockey club, which features a lineup of fairly big stars. People come by train, park guests find themselves at a hotel right away, walk across these wonderful bridges and enter our ice palace.
01:12
Many Olympic champions, such as Aleksey Yagudin, Tatyana Totmyanina, Roman Kostomarov, they are all going to perform right here, right now in our show. To be sure, they have already been Olympic champions, but not at home. So let them stand, even for just a moment, on the home ice. Though huge in size, the Iceberg ice palace is very comfortable inside, very well-designed, has very good lighting, good sound.
The show we premiere here, this is a show that has already run in Moscow, it ran in London, it ran in Shanghai, but what we plan is to create a totally new project, one that would focus on Sochi alone, would be custom-made for this wonderful ice palace. You will only be able to see such a show here so that people who want to come to Sochi can understand that here they will see what is not available anywhere else in the world!
02:30
All people are born in totally different countries, to different conditions, are raised differently, but the core issues are male-female relationships. Essentially, they are all absolutely identical.
02:46
This is probably more of a boy-meets-girl story anyway. About a girl, about a certain magic in Chaplin's character… about life and about love, to cut a long story short.
There will be the love story of Roman Kostomarov and Oksana Domnina; this is totally awesome because they are man and wife in real life too! I can imagine what they are feeling! Well, it's great, and with comic relief throughout, colourful and bright! In this country, if you're Russian, how do you like it? On a grand scale too, right? But for some reason, nobody dares to go the whole hog; they pull their punches. But Ilya Averbukh dares and comes in with all guns blazing! So there!
03:46
No, we are not going home tomorrow because we are obviously a hit here!
Thumbs up? You betcha!
03:54
I spent all day outside, sweltering, and today I find myself in a palace and at such a great event to boot! Can it possibly get any better than this!?
04:02
And then I come out and there's a fountain!!!