Freestyle Music Park, the former Hard Rock Park, unveiled its final two shows on Thursday, including a performance based on the popular TV series CSI and a fireworks and laser show that will be played at the park's closing.
The show, called "CSI: Live," follows crime scene investigators as they seek to solve a crime that occurred when a magic show goes awry. Audience members are brought on stage to help the police officers and are also questioned as suspects.
Thursday's announcements round out the Freestyle show lineup, which also includes Flip 5 Live, a kids tumbling and dance show, Adrenaline Rush, a stunt show with bikes, roller blades and skateboards, and Ice Cold Country, an ice staking show set to country rock tunes.
The CSI show is being produced by Mad Science Productions in partnership with CBS Consumer Products and was performed at a Six Flags park near Los Angeles last year, said Leonard Lipes, the show's producer. Two separate casts will perform the show at the Six Flags park and the Freestyle park this season.
Lipes said his company liked the new management at the park and decided to bring the show to Freestyle because the company thought the park would be successful.
"We like the chemistry of this being a music park," Lipes said, adding the show's soundtrack was tweaked specially for the park. "We think we could add value by appealing to a broader and wider demographic."
The $400 million park debuted as Hard Rock Park in April 2008 to much fanfare, but closed in bankruptcy in September after a lackluster first season. FPI MB Entertainment bought the park out of bankruptcy for $25 million in February and eventually dropped the Hard Rock name.
The CSI show was performed in front of dozens of children. Leslie Johnson, a 9-year-old who came to the show with the Salvation Army's Boys and Girls Club of Horry County, volunteered to help the crime scene investigators solve the crime because she thought it was "cool." Her favorite part on stage was pressing a button that set off an air cannon as part of the show.
Mary Hill, the unit director for the club, said she thought the show was educational and taught kids to pay attention and be curious about their surroundings.
Leslie Johnson, 9, helps performers on stage during "CSI: Live"
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