No Doubt and virtual amusement park featured in new CyberSphere shows at Renaissance Center

Release Date: 7/7/2003. Expired: 8/30/2003

The CyberSphere Digital Theater at The Renaissance Center debuts two new - and very different - shows with its July schedule.

Laser No Doubt features 13 songs by the popular pop group fronted by Gwen Stefani. Hits like Spiderwebs, Just a Girl, Don’t Speak and Hella Good from the band’s latest album fill the four-story domed theater’s 14,000-watt surround sound system with dance tunes that have covered pop radio airwaves for the past 7 years.

Along with the music, the show features spectacular effects from the Omniscan laser projector, one of the world’s first 360-degree laser projectors capable of more than 1 trillion colors. Add to that the sphere’s Digistar II planetarium projector and more than two dozen video and slide projectors and you get a show stimulating to the eyes and ears.

Laser No Doubt shows at 9 p.m. Saturdays through the end of August. Tickets are $6.

The Digistar Amusement Park takes viewers on several rides through a virtual amusement park generated by the Digistar II projector. With assorted rock and pop songs in the background, viewers will be swept away by familiar rides such as the Scrambler, the Demon, the Dragon, the Viking Ship and others. Unlike actual amusement park rides, the Digistar Amusement Park lets you ride on a Mobius wheel in space or a Ferris Wheel that breaks loose and rolls through city scenes.

Even getting from ride to ride turns into an experience as mysterious worm holes transport the viewer to the next virtual ride.

“Digistar Amusement Park fools your brain into thinking you are moving and gives you a tantalizing sensation of motion,” said Ron Stinson, director of the CyberSphere. “But I assure you, the seats and the sphere never move an inch, despite what many viewers have insisted.”

Digistar Amusement Park shows at 8 p.m. Saturdays through August. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and children under 13.

Southern Jam returns to the CyberSphere with a full slate of southern rock favorites. Songs like Flirtin’ with Disaster, Sharp Dressed Man, Ramblin’ Man, Layla, Copperhead Road and of course southern anthems Sweet Home Alabama, Freebird and Rocky Top are accompanied by a full range of laser and digital effects as they pour from the digital sound system.

Southern Jam shows at 3 p.m. Saturdays through August. Tickets are $6.

The CyberSphere Digital Theatre is a four-story domed theatre classified as a level 6 planetarium, the highest rating by international planetarium organizations. Its state-of-the-art starfield projector is joined by the 360-laser projector for a unique combination of technology. Together with the video and slide projectors and a 14,000-watt digital Surround Sound system, the CyberSphere offers a totally unique experience from any other laser or planetarium shows.

For more information on 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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