Tonight's closing ceremony promises to be a stunner
The Spice Girls are rumoured to be among a diverse wealth of acts lined up for today’s Olympic Games closing ceremony, entitled “A Symphony of British Music”.
Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham. Pic/Getty Images.
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George Michael, Muse and Ed Sheeran have broken the ring of silence surrounding the event and confirmed they are among the acts taking part in the spectacle that brings the curtain down on the London 2012 Games.
Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham last week tweeted a picture of a microphone, saying “Look what I found!”. The show at the 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium features more than 4,100 performers, including 3,500 adult volunteers and 380 schoolchildren. The event will be “the best after-show party there’s ever been,” its artistic director Kim Gavin pledged on Saturday.
The main ceremony’s starts at 01:30 (Monday) IST, which is scheduled to last up to three hours. Gavin, who has worked extensively choreographing Take That tours, said the show would be a “mashed-up symphony” of British music.
The ceremony will start with a 20-minute “day in the life of London” segment, Gavin said, a “cacophony” of music spanning the 20th century from English composer Edward Elgar to “Waterloo Sunset” by The Kinks.
Their frontman Ray Davies has been tipped to perform the song in person.
“It is an extraordinary show. I think it is everything we wanted,” said Stephen Daldry, the ceremony’s creative director and executive producer. “The brief was to celebrate the athletes, to celebrate the volunteers, to celebrate London, the country and... the rest of the world that has come together for this extraordinary Games.” Daldry, an British film director and producer best known for “Billy Elliot”, also praised the show’s designer Es Devlin, who has has created sets for Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Take That.
The shows’ musical director is be David Arnold, who has written pieces for James Bond films.
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