Classic rock, top ‘boy bands’ featured in new CyberSphere laser shows

Release Date: 11/11/2002. Expired: 12/7/2002

Two new laser shows featuring some of rock’s greatest bands as well as the two hottest “boy bands” in pop music are now showing in the CyberSphere Digital Theatre at The Renaissance Center in Dickson.

Classic Laser Rock features a stellar lineup of the top bands in rock music from the 1960s and ’70s along with spectacular laser and visual effects in the state-of-the-art, four-story domed theatre.

The playlist includes Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Love Me Two Times by The Doors, Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones, Money by Pink Floyd, Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix, Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles, Pinball Wizard by The Who, Hotel California by The Eagles and Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin.

For younger audiences, the brand new Backstreet Boys/*NSYNC laser show puts pop music’s top two boy bands together with 14,000 watts of digital surround sound and the CyberSphere’s full spectrum of special effects.

Included in the show are Backstreet Boys hits Everybody (Backstreet's Back), Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely, Shape of My Heart, I Want It That Way and Get Down (You're the One For Me).

*NSYNC hits on the playlist include It's Gonna Be Me, Tearin' Up My Heart, Bye Bye Bye, God Must Have Spent A Little More Time on You and Music of My Heart.

“Our laser shows featuring classic rock music have been tremendously popular, with people coming back over and over again to hear Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and others. The new Classic Laser Rock show features some of the greatest hits of that era from undoubtedly the biggest artists,” said Ron Stinson, director of the CyberSphere.

“Our Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera laser show proved to be quite popular when it debuted in September with music from the two top pop divas,” Stinson said. “Now we’re turning things around with the two top boy bands in Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC.”

Classic Laser Rock shows Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. through Dec. 7. Backstreet Boys/*NSYNC shows at 3 p.m. Saturdays through Dec. 7.

Rounding out the weekend laser show schedule is the classic Dark Side of the Moon from Pink Floyd at 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. One of the first laser shows to be featured when the CyberSphere opened three years ago, it has remained a fan favorite.

Admission for laser shows is $6 for all seats.

The weekend schedule also includes the planetarium show Greatest Wonders of the Universe at 7 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturdays. Narrated by Jeri Lynn Ryan of the Star Trek: Voyager and Boston Public television series, Greatest Wonders of the Universe looks at places and objects in our universe that inspire awe and even defy explanation.

Admission for Greatest Wonders of the Universe is $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and children under 13.

Beginning Dec. 13, the CyberSphere will get in the Christmas spirit with the brand new Christmas Laser Fantasy show, featuring the music of Mannheim Steamroller.

For more information on laser or planetarium shows in the CyberSphere, call (615)740-5600. The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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