This stage drawings book was key for the design and construction of the stage for U2's Zooropa performances around the world. The book is in fact part of the work to manufacture all the components of this stage that was used around Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
This rare ring bound book is 230 x 280 mm so it's quite big compared with the itinerary books. UPFRONT, Inc. was the company in charge of this project and all the information included on this book was part of their work.
The book has got 40 pages that basically include detailed drawings of every single section of the stage. These are technical drawings at different scales (1:400, 1:200, 1:300,...). We can find different drawings for the full stage Plan View, the right side, the left side, the B Stage, ....
Interesting details are shown on these pages such as the height of the stage components (24 meters for the towers, 17.5 meters for the rest of the stage), the screens size and other stuff.
Sometimes very technical and even difficult to understand but still very interesting for a non expert like me.
Most of these stage plans were finally used on the final tour rider as you can see on the "Zooropa'93 tour rider" entry. Wanna take a look? Just follow this link:
http://u2itinerarybooks.blogspot.com/2010/10/u2-zooropa93-tour-rider.html
As you can see on the first couple of pictures, on March 25th they printed this first revision. I later knew that there was a 4th revision on May 27th. The funny thing is that the tour had started in Rotterdam on May 9th so it seems they were kind of adjusting things even with the tour already on the road.
And last but not least, I also found these 3 pictures on the internet that I thought would perfectly fit for this entry. They were taken while the stage was being built in one the stadiums that the tour did visit.
The Collector
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