They’re back…

Dinosaurs will roam the floor in the Huntington Arena May 7-9 as The Creature

The massive “cast” of “Walking With Dinosaurs” will bring history alive at The Huntington Center May 7-9. (Photo by Ralf Brinkhoff, © 2008 Global Creatures)

Production Company presents “Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular.”

The show, based on the award-winning BBC television series, will feature roaring, snarling “live” dinosaurs that are as awe-inspiring as when they first walked on earth.

 “The dinosaurs are life-size, making the show so immense, it could only fit in arenas,” Carmen Pavlovic, CEO of The Creature Production Company. “It’s a $20 million arena spectacle of unprecedented size and quality, which captivates young and old alike.”

Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain; as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period; the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period; and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous.

The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 36 feet tall, and 56 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 – including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts – a year to build the original production.

The show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution, complete with the climatic and tectonic changes that took place, which led to the demise of many species. With almost cinematic realism, “Walking With Dinosaurs” has scenes of the interactions between dinosaurs, and the audience will see how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.

The history of the world is played out with the splitting of the earth’s continents, and the transition from the arid desert of the Triassic period is given over to the lush green prairies and forces of the later Jurassic. Oceans form, volcanoes erupt, a forest catches fire -- all leading to the impact of the massive comet, which struck the earth, and forced the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The performance schedule is Friday May 7 at 7 p.m.; Saturday May 8 at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; and Sunday May 9 at 1 and 5 p.m.

Tickets are available by calling 800-745-3000, on-line at www.ticketmaster.com or in person at the box office at the Huntington Center Box Office, 500 Jefferson Ave., Toledo.

For more information about “Walking With Dinosaurs,” visit www.dinosaurlive.com.

The massive “cast” of “Walking With Dinosaurs” will bring history alive at The Huntington Center May 7-9. (Photo by Ralf Brinkhoff, © 2008 Global Creatures)

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