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Future-Proofing Tours: How The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ Stage Designers Got Creative to Keep Costs Down

Here's how The Weeknd tour's stage designers kept costs down, as concert productions grow in size and shows get more expensive.

But Deceglio’s assignment would go deeper; management wanted the veteran production ace to “future-proof” the After Hours Til Dawn set and build a tour that minimized uncertainty without compromising on audience experience. “I was tasked with looking within and rethinking anything and everything about the show and how all the various elements and systems work together,” Deceglio tells Billboard, leading a brief tour of the set during a stopover at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. “The light itself is bolted to a deck and then covered with scenic tape” that blends in with the stage to give it a seamless appearance and allows it to be quickly built, wired, broken down and transported by a single team.

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