SC Media Canada recently supplied a comprehensive CODA Audio system for an ambitious immersive reboot of a theatre show watched by millions: La Fabuleuse Histoire d’un Royaume. Headliner finds out more…
La Fabuleuse Histoire d’un Royaume (The Fabulous History of a Kingdom) is billed as a show that stimulates every sense. Held annually at the 2,300-seat Théâtre du Palais in the Quebec City of Saguenay, it is, on the face of it, a community theatre show, although its production values reflect a rather more ambitious and distinctly professional approach.
A cast of 150 volunteer actors play multiple roles within a scenic deployment that features horses, fire, water, cannon-shots and more besides. During the course of its 35-year run charting the birth of Saguenay, La Fabuleuse has played to 1.3 million spectators - a quite staggering record for an all-French production outside Canada’s major metropolitan centres.
Last year the show made a grand return after a two-year pandemic enforced break, scaling new heights with the introduction of an immersive sound system delivered by leading event suppliers, LSM Ambiocréateurs. Founder and president of LSM, Serge Lachance, began his involvement with La Fabuleuse more than a decade ago when the company became the show’s technical equipment supplier, and for the last seven years has been its sound designer and FOH engineer.