The Journey of the Dragon
We think that everyone would agree that this year’s New Year midnight moment was our best one yet.  To produce this 8 minute spectacular took a lot of planning and effort from many people over several months. 

This year’s midnight moment was envisioned and designed by Kathy Sunderland from Furthur’s management team and was inspired by A Song of Ice & Fire ~ a five book fantasy series by George R. R. Martin the first novel of which has been depicted in the recent HBO series The Games of Thrones.

The characters from our NYE spectacular included:

Daenerys Targaryen - who was portrayed by Emily Sunderland who has been our Midnight Moment star for our past three New Year’s Eve spectaculars.

Ser Jorah Moremont – Daenerys' faithful knight companion was played by J.C. Juanis who is the voice of the NYE countdowns for Furthur and Phil Lesh & Friends’ annual midnight moments.

Father Time – Played by Bill Walton – not a character of the Game but a fixture of New Years Past.

Plus many damsels from our faithful friends and family core who somehow make each New Year celebration memorable.

The 31 foot dragon was made from recycled cardboard boxes and built by Mike Murname, Joshua Short, and Joel Stockdill at the Cardboard Institute of Technology on Treasure Island.

Marty Cohen of Stage Rigging was instrumental in ensuring that we could take our dragon to the highest realm of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

Please enjoy this wonderful video created by our friend Jay Blakesberg.  I think that all will agree that this year’s production was truly phenomenal and certainly one for the ages.

In the next several weeks we will detail the entire process, from the initial creation from idea, to paper sketch, through the whole construction ~  to what you saw on New Year’s Eve.  This took the efforts of many of visionary artists and technicians.

We invite you to follow us on The Journey of the Dragon.

Photos Here

• Thu, Apr 5th - Wang Theatre
• Fri, Apr 6th - Wang Theatre
• Sat, Apr 7th - Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre
• Mon, Apr 9th - Beacon Theatre
• Tue, Apr 10th - Beacon Theatre
• Thu, Apr 12th - Beacon Theatre
• Fri, Apr 13th - Beacon Theatre
• Sat, Apr 14th - Beacon Theatre
• Sun, Apr 15th - Beacon Theatre
• Tue, Apr 17th - Beacon Theatre
• Wed, Apr 18th - Beacon Theatre
• Fri, Apr 20th - Wanee Festival
• Sat, Apr 21st - Wanee Festival

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