Every time in its almost 60-year historical past, placing on the Super Bowl halftime present will get more durable. Generally the logistics get difficult by issues about protecting the turf. On different events, some side of the present leaks on-line, as happened last year forward of Kendrick Lamar’s performance. Within the lead-up to Bad Bunny’s efficiency at Tremendous Bowl LX, I questioned if worries concerning the attainable presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers on the Massive Recreation could be the King of Latin Lure’s largest hurdle.
It wasn’t. It was making an attempt to satisfy Dangerous Bunny’s want to remodel the sector at Levi’s Stadium into his house of Puerto Rico.
That one was Bruce and Shelley Rodgers’ drawback to resolve. Their firm, Tribe Inc., has been producing the present for almost 20 years, and the pair have grow to be de facto consultants in learn how to pull off more and more elaborate stage productions through the allotted 26 or so minutes of the halftime present.
For Sunday’s efficiency, located in the course of the Seattle Seahawks’ rematch in opposition to the New England Patriots, the difficulty was horticultural. Dangerous Bunny, whose actual title is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, wished his present to have the identical feel and appear as his latest Puerto Rico residency, which coated levels in palm bushes and sugar cane to re-create the environs of Vega Baja, the place he grew up.
In a unique stadium, that could possibly be carried out by rolling carts coated in these crops onto the sector. However Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium, house of the San Francisco 49ers, makes use of pure grass; the National Football League’s pointers don’t enable that many carts onto the sector, as they’d tear up the grass. The max the group might use was 25, and so they wanted these for the levels and different props.
Bruce Rodgers’ repair was easy: gown folks up like crops.
As viewers noticed at halftime, Dangerous Bunny, who carried out in an all-white outfit with a quantity and “Ocasio” on the again like a soccer jersey, did get to bop across the set he wished—the casita, the classic truck, the marriage stage—however the crops had been alive in a manner he may not have imagined. Some 380 folks donned costumes to make them seem like tall stalks of grasses. The stationary palm bushes and poles, in the event you’re questioning, had been rolled out a lot in the identical manner the streetlights had been positioned for Lamar’s street scene from Tremendous Bowl LIX. On Sunday, they hit their restrict of 25 carts, outfitted with so-called “turf tires,” and acquired all the pieces safely on and off the sector.
