While planning for Shania Twain’s 2015 “Rock This Country” tour, it would have been easier to simply borrow from the production design elements that worked well for Shania Twain’s 2012 residency at the Colosseum in Las Vegas. But show director/production designer Raj Kapoor noted the benefits of veering sharply away into the new. “I thought we needed something totally different, totally fresh,” Kapoor said. “I went into our first meeting for this tour and told her I had planned the tour and wanted to throw everything away…We were getting rid of the dancers, we weren’t doing the live horses, we cut the string section and ended up replacing half the members of the band. It was about creating new energy around her, and that was the goal of the show.”
—Raj Kapoor, as quoted by Nook Schoenfeld, PLSN, Oct. 2015, page 48.
