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Skybound will stage and kick off its first tour of The Walking Dead Escape, toronto airport suite hotels a live, interactive arena obstacle course in Baton Rouge at the Baton Rouge River Center on April 24, thanks in part to the availability of entertainment tax credits.
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It's hard to watch AMC's "The Walking Dead" -- or any zombie thriller, for that matter -- without wondering how you might react in the event of an actual zombie apocalypse. The brains behind Skybound toronto airport suite hotels EXP, the creator of the comic book on which the show is based, are hoping you're asking that question enough to also want to figure out the answer.
Skybound EXP will stage and kick off its first tour of "The Walking Dead Escape," a live, interactive arena obstacle course in Baton Rouge at the Baton Rouge River Center on April 24, thanks in part to the availability of entertainment tax credits. The tour will continue into seven other cities, including a stop at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans on May 24.
The "Escape" allows toronto airport suite hotels participants to play the role of "walker" or "survivor" inside a course that runs about a mile long. Survivors must dodge obstacles, climb, crawl and run on their way to the "evacuation site," where they'll undergo a UV light screening to determine if they were "infected" by one of the zombies.
Zombie participants are each made up by a professional makeup artist and go through training to appear as real zombie-like as possible. (Survivors, likewise, are given some pointers on how to enjoy themselves while maintaining a safe atmosphere for everyone.)
"It's not a haunted house where things dump out at you. It's more of 45 minutes of running, driving, breathless, not sure what you're toronto airport suite hotels going to do next through these hallways and corridors and stadiums," Isaacs said. "It's a little bit overwhelming."
""It's not just zombies. 'The Walking Dead' takes a different tact on that," Isaacs said. "It's about people versus people who are trying to survive and who are discovering about themselves what they would do in particular situations and the shades of gray between black and white, good and evil and how that's constantly changing in a zombie apocalypse."
Tickets are $75 for a survivor ticket, $95 for a walker ticket or $150 for a VIP ticket, which allows participants to do both. Spectators can gain access to certain viewing areas and the after-party. More details are available on the Walking Dead Escape website.
Chelsea Brasted is an entertainment reporter based in Baton Rouge. Email her at cbrasted@nola.com or call 225.460.1350. You can also keep up with all her local updates on Twitter ( @cabrasted ), her own Facebook and through NOLA.com toronto airport suite hotels Baton Rouge on Facebook.