The Millennium Dome Show was a multimedia theatrical performance created to commemorate the year 2000 in the Millennium Dome in

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. The show was directed by

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executive Pete Docter, who wrote the show alongside English musician Peter Gabriel and English architect

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. Fisher designed the show while Gabriel composed the music, later made available as his eleventh studio album '' OVO''. Micha Bergese was the Artistic Director. The show opened on 1 January 2000 and was performed 999 times before closing on 31 December of that year.

Story

The '' Romeo and Juliet''-like story in the show, serving as an allegory for humanity's unity between nature and technology, revolved around a feud between the "earth-people" and the "sky-people". A young boy from the sky and a young girl from the earth fell in love, but the feud between their people made it difficult for them to meet. Eventually the earth-people suffered a crushing defeat, which ultimately led them to reconcile and unite with the sky-people. At the end of the show, the lovers flew together into a better future, symbolizing the beginning of the new millennium.

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