Expo 88 Aquacade, Bligh's Follies, South Bank 1988 Aquacade IM0005

The Aquacade featured up to five half hour shows daily of synchronised swimmers, world champion high divers, trick divers, comedy routines and dancers.

Spectacular stunts, including dare-devil high divers plunging from a 30 metre tower into a pool, were part of the show. Night time shows were also be staged with special lighting.
The Aquacade, located on the banks of the Brisbane River at the southern end of the Expo site, seated 3000 people.
Expo 88 engaged the world's leading professional Aquacade producer, Bob Maxwell, for the extravaganza.

His Florida-based company, Maxwell Associates Inc., had 25 years’ experience in creating aquacade shows at three international expositions and at theme parks around the world.
The Aquacade featured 10 international and five Australian divers, about 23 synchronised swimmers - under the instruction of the world's leading synchronised swimming coach, Marion Kane -and about 23 dancers.

The show was a comical adaption of "Mutiny on the Bounty" beginning with the arrival in Australia of Captain Bligh (later Governor) and ending with a grand finale celebrating Australia’s bicentennial anniversary.
Australian maestro, Tommy Tycho, composed and arranged the music for the 30-minute show with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Text source: www.facebook.com/legacy/notes/3136654796355301/

Image Source: www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM299139

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Taken on: April 13, 2023

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