Toronto Show
The 2008 New Tang Dynasty Television Chinese New Year Spectacular during the Chinese New Year period and the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular after the Chinese New Year will welcome their audiences from over 50 major cities across 4 continents even before the holiday season starts. Since 2004, NTDTV Spectacular becomes so popular and has grown from 5 city/7 shows to 32 city/81 shows worldwide in 2007.
The Chinese New Year Spectacular, which uses the expression of Chinese classical dance, showcases the true traditional Chinese culture without any Communist Party Culture. Through background scenery, costumes, and choreography, the Chinese New Year Spectacular expresses pure truthfulness, pure compassion, and pure beauty. Regarding the aspect of music, for the first time it successfully combines western orchestral music instruments with traditional Chinese music instruments, and it expresses the joy of sound from heaven handed by Gods in a more perfect fashion, captures the true spirit of ancient Chinese divine culture. China's history comes to life in this gorgeous performance that is entertaining, inspiring and uplifting. The content of all programs is expressed in Chinese, English and local languages.
Audience at the January 2007 Chinese New Spectacular, Toronto Centre for the Arts
Each year New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) hosts an exhilarating Chinese New Year Spectacular worldwide, where the best of Chinese music and dance come together, bringing to life the myths, legends, and divine beauty of traditional Chinese culture for Western and Chinese audiences alike.
The 2006 extravaganza at New York's world-famous Radio City Music Hall ranked the top 7th show internationally on Billboard magazine’s Boxscore in February that year. In 2007 the show toured 34 cities on four continents and attracted a total live audience of over 200,000, charming and delighting viewers of all ages. In Ottawa tickets sold out more than five weeks in advance.
Enjoy an all-new dazzling world-class Spectacular featuring acclaimed artists and a professional cast of over 100 dancers, musicians, and vocalists performing against a state-of-the-art background projection of dynamic scenery and multilingual lyrics accompanied by a live full-size orchestra. Weaving a marvelous story of heavenly realms, enchanting dreams, and the classic battle between good and evil, the stunning performances evoke themes of love, compassion, virtue, and hope that are at the heart of traditional values and ancient culture.
"Usually we hear about song and dance multiculturalism, but it's usually not very deep and not very profound. But here tonight it was the most extraordinary cultural show I've ever seen and experienced...The nation's capital is not an ordinary city anymore, but a top-class and world-class city, thanks to the Chinese New Year experience."
- Professor Cyril Dabydeen (renowned writer, poet, University of Ottawa) at the 2007 Ottawa show.
"Spectacular, riveting, really enjoying it- quite wonderful...Really quite intriguing and beautiful to watch...I've been to China- Beijing- but I've never been treated to this level of sophisticated entertainment."
- Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien at the Jan. 2007 show in Ottawa
