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“An Evening with Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert” brings one of the best artists of all time back to the stage in this all-new modern residency.

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AN EVENING WITH WHITNEY: THE WHITNEY HOUSTON HOLOGRAM CONCERT DESCRIPTION

Whitney Houston is one of the greatest musical legends in history. Her songs defined a generation, and her awards are nearly endless with Emmys, Grammys, and multiple hall of fame inductions. Now because of modern holographic technology, adoring fans will once again experience Whitney Houston in concert. “An Evening with Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert “does the unbelievable and lets you sing along to the legend’s greatest hits.

Whitney Houston was a superstar. Her mix of upbeat tunes and powerful ballads made her a household name right out of the gate. Her very first album sold over 25 million copies worldwide and earned her a Grammy, the first of many she would win during her lifetime. In case you thought she had a normal “successful” career, she holds the world record for Most Honored Female Singer of All Time with over 400 awards to her name. So yeah, it’s safe to say she was more than a big deal.

Directed by hip-hop choreographer Fatima Robinson and featuring a full band with backup singers and dancers, this holographic superstar performs to digitally remastered versions of Houston’s live vocal performances.

A tribute show unlike any other, “An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert” will have you experiencing the impossible and singing along to the late, great Whitney Houston one more time.

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‘The Only Thing Missing Was Her, Physically.’ Inside the Whitney Houston Hologram Tour

By Ethan Millman

Ethan Millman

“Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Whitney Houston , very much live,” a holographic Whitney tells a small crowd of reporters in Los Angeles during a dress rehearsal for the late singer’s upcoming “An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour.”

While Houston has been dead for eight years, the creators behind the singer’s hologram tour are looking to give a new tour experience to her audience. “An Evening With Whitney” was designed with Whitney’s image in mind, Pat Houston, the singer’s former manager and head of the Whitney Houston estate, said. Whitney planned on giving a more intimate, unplugged-esque tour before she died. And while that never took place when she was alive, the production team behind the hologram has ensured her vision will happen posthumously.

“We had a discussion about her doing ‘Whitney Unplugged’ or some type of ‘Evening with Whitney,’ and that was really her idea,” Pat Houston said. “It’s a dream that was realized by her. So that’s the production. This isn’t something that we’re just putting together. This is something that she wanted to do, and I get very emotional watching this because it is so close to what she wanted. The only thing missing was her, physically.”

The tour, set to kick off February 25th in Sheffield, England, is the latest from Base Holograms, the company behind the recent Buddy Holly/Roy Orbison outing. While more hologram tours have sparked up in recent years, some critics are still quick to label the idea exploitative or creepy. But the Houston shows suggests that what seemed like one-off gimmicks when a virtual Tupac Shakur joined Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at Coachella may still become a mainstream entertainment medium.

But those banking on hologram features becoming mainstays still have a long hill to climb. Ticket sales were weak for the Holly/Orbison tour, averaging at just over half of tickets sold at each venue, according to Pollstar. The tour’s two lowest-selling shows sold just 36% of their available tickets. Frank Zappa’s hologram tour, which also took place in 2019, fared slightly better, selling a lukewarm 66% of tickets per show. Still, Houston is by far the biggest-selling artist to have their likeness tour as a hologram – she’s No. 19 in all-time sales according to the Recording Industry Association of America – which could make her shows a bigger draw.

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The show is the result of five years of discussion, Base Hologram Productions CEO Marty Tudor said. Once the project got off the ground, it took another year to make it.

The dress rehearsal showcased about two-thirds of the show, which will feature a live band and dancers choreographed by Fatima Robinson, who previously worked with Houston. The show will give audiences many of the singer’s biggest hits, including “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” “I Have Nothing” and her beloved rendition of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You.” The hologram also performed Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love,” a 1990 cover that gained traction well after Houston’s death when Norwegian DJ Kygo remixed it last year .

Pat Houston said fans should come into these shows simply to appreciate Whitney’s music and see something new rather than to expect an exact recreation of one of her live concerts. 

“It’s primarily just paying homage to her legacy. How many times can you just hear the same song over and over? This is a new way to experience the music,” Pat Houston said. “Realistically, it’s all about the Whitney experience. She preferred doing small shows, and it was something she couldn’t really do when she was alive. People need to understand, no one is trying to recreate our Whitney. This is a show to celebrate her music and introduce her to people who never got to see her live.”

Still, the show is designed to be as close to the real thing as possible, Tudor said. But the technology still needs improving to truly obtain that goal; the holograms are two-dimensional, which severely limits the show’s stage dynamics, and a particularly scrutinizing eye can still see an occasionally translucent holographic image from certain angles.

But the show is peppered with small details to try and heighten a sense of realism. Producers have “Whitney” wear multiple detailed outfits, from a bright orange jumpsuit to a more frilly gold dress. Whitney’s hologram looks wet when they pour rain on her, and there’s the occasional virtual fan outburst yelling “I love you Whitney!” While a deceased artist’s hologram could come across dystopian to some, Tudor said that done tastefully, he sees these hologram shows as homages.

“It’s a complicated mix of disciplines if you will,” Tudor said. “I could’ve made Whitney fly around stage if I wanted to, but she didn’t. One of the things that’s really critical is we want to be authentic. To me, it’s creepy and eerie if you make the artist do something they never would’ve done. But if you are authentic and live within the rules of who they were, this is a celebration of her legacy.”

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Nine years after she died, Whitney Houston is back to entertain you

A new hologram persuasively suggests the singer is here and in top form. Is America ready for concert resurrection?

The caramel hair was as perfect as remembered. The rhythmic moves were as graceful as they are in our mind’s eye. And when those signature melismas of “I Will Always Love You” began, it was impossible not to be transported to the spot again — that spot, the plane of transcendent Zen only a handful of singers have ever taken us.

Whitney Houston was back.

It's just that she was a hologram.

The Grammy-winning legend died more than nine years ago. But beginning this week in Las Vegas, Houston took the stage with a complement of breathing performers, shimmying and shimmering — and of course singing some of the most famous pop songs of all time in “An Evening With Whitney,” a live concert with a Houston hologram.

This is what Pat Houston, her sister-in-law and manager, wants; this is what a company known as BASE Hologram, run by the former Clear Channel executive Brian Becker, wants. Soon enough, we will find out if this is what America wants — whether we crave Houston in colorful regalia on a buzzing stage, delighting audiences as she did so often when she was alive, ascending us to new heights of afterlife performance, or, maybe, just plummeting us straight into the uncanny valley.

The show in many ways shatters the norms of techno-illusion. A two-minute deep fake is one thing. The dead dancing for us is another.

“I don’t see it as resurrecting the dead but as celebrating a life,” said Becker last week, pushing back, a little. “We want to build a great live show around her.”

The “live show” is made up of a four-piece band and four dancers. “Her” is a computer-generated face of the singer in her prime that has been digitally grafted to an actress body-double, choreographed and shot months ago and now projected onto a scrim. Nothing on performance night can go wrong.

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Barring a power outage, at least.

What has been carved out with “Whitney” is more than a show: It’s a glimpse of a future, one in which departed performers live on, not just in shaky YouTube footage but in full-splendored presence. In a sense, the Houston hologram represents nothing less than technology’s ability to transcend time and sideline mortality, if only for 80 minutes while bopping along to “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” on the Vegas Strip.

Fatima Robinson, the prolific director and choreographer , is behind the show, but it is Houston’s specter that floats over it. The singer, with sales of more than 200 million records, works her way through all the hits people bought those records for, “How Will I Know” and “The Greatest Love of All,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and “I Will Always Love You,” from the stage of the 550-seat Harrah’s Showroom.

Several performances were held in the United Kingdom in early 2020, before lockdowns did to the star what death could not. The pause gave BASE and the team time to regroup, and now they are back with an open-ended, $80-a-pop run in Sin City.

If all goes well, a tour will follow in 2023, delivering hologram Whitney across the country. Yet Vegas is its most natural venue, an ethereal city playing host to a singer who is not actually there. (The Washington Post has viewed footage of multiple performances.)

Keith Harris, the Grammy-winning producer who is the show’s musical director, says the aim is the flow of a live show, though lifting the vocals from concert footage and lining them up with a hologram’s mouth movements wasn’t easy. Then again, if any of the vocals did wind up looking lip-synced, he points out, “what are they going to say, she’s not really singing?”

From the shuffling opening notes of “Higher Love” to the final sultry bars of “I’m Every Woman,” the show is a full-on Houston performance. Hologram implies a column of dust-filled light, but that would be an undersell. The singer walks around the stage, she salutes the band and crowd, she slinks and dances, all in a dynamic, human-seeming performance. She speaks, a little: “I’d like to do some songs for you tonight. Is that okay?" Oh, and there are wardrobe changes.

If one wants to drop down into a deep well of pop-philosophy, it is worth visiting the YouTube clip of an England show, where a commenting chorus calls it “creepy” and “demonic” and respondents offer defenses like “How is this demonic? It’s just a projection, they didn’t conjure up her spirit or anything.”

The show’s creative director, Mark Swanhart, has his own adjudication of the debate. “We’re not pretending she’s here. But I believe her spirit, her essence, is here."

Holograms are not new in pop music. Nine years ago, at Coachella, Tupac appeared, via an old trick known as “Pepper’s Ghost.” (Technically, it’s an optical illusion. ) They popped up again last year after Kanye West gave Kim Kardashian the holographic gift of her late father.

They’re also not new to BASE, which has had hologram tours with Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and Maria Callas. But those were different, lacking the production pizazz of the Houston show, and the recency. Where those performers go back many decades, Houston sold out arenas this century, and her overdose death in a room at the Beverly Hilton that tragic Grammys weekend in February 2012 is still a fresh wound.

Some see exploitation in conjuring dead performers by hologram — “ ghost slavery ,” the journalist Simon Reynolds has termed it — either by damaging their supernal essence or by simply forcing technology to stand them up again and again on stages they never intended to grace. In America, you cannot defame the dead. But you can overwork them seven shows a week in a Vegas club.

Pat Houston objects. She sees the production as a dream realized — a chance for a person to do in the virtual afterlife what they could not do while here on Earth.

“Whitney would have loved the size of the venues and the ability to be in a smaller, more intimate setting,” Pat Houston wrote in an email. “Whitney’s touring was of course so massive when she was alive that she was playing arenas and stadiums and Super Bowls. But we often discussed the smaller venues and the ability to connect with an audience. She grew up singing in the church, so the connection to an audience was so important to her. She would have loved this show for its ability to be intimate with an audience.”

Becker points out that it would be hard to call it exploitation when the estate is involved creatively and sharing in the profits.

Reynolds also sees a kind of disruption to the music ecosystem in the form, since instead of new artists rising when old ones die, the old ones never clear out.

The show offers a chance for people who never saw Houston in concert to do so. But their language is not yet developed. When the image pauses before a song, claps cheer her on.

“It’s weird — like, you can’t encourage a hologram,”Becker said. (If the Whitney tour works, he has plans for other icon shows; he also envisions living artists appearing by hologram in multiple cities on the same night.)

There is a present advantage to a hologram star — they can’t get covid. Lockdowns in fact brought a burst of video game concerts in the likes of “Fortnite” and “Roblox.” This, in a way, is the inverse — not a real-life performer in a synthetic environment but a fabricated performer in a real one. It also runs alongside Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse; both join the tangible and the digital.

The social-media backlash has been noisy. Becker theorizes it is the boldness of the experiment, but something more primal may be at work: Seeing a late icon vital reminds us of the thin line between life and death. To contemplate the Whitney Houston hologram is to feel instantly better about life — how nice to be reminded of all we once loved — while also coming face-to-face with the uncomfortable truth at its center: It all goes away.

Harris’s experience is that the crowd softens as the show moves on. “They’re very quiet at the beginning, like, ‘how are we supposed to react to this?’ And then a few songs in they’re clapping and getting into it,” he said. “By the guitar solos, they’re cheers-ing and crying.”

This, of course, is the goal. Watching Houston, we are meant to slip, if only momentarily, into the ecstasy of her presence, her talent, her alive-ness .

But will enough people be willing to indulge the illusion and attend the show? Would you?

“It’s really about allowing all of your senses to take over for a full experience. The music with a live band, the costumes and dancers, the feeling of being at a show,” Pat Houston says. “You can easily be swept up into it.” There can be miracles, when you believe.

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More fans will soon get to witness the boundary-breaking concerts of  Whitney Houston 's hologram.

ET can exclusively confirm that An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert is making its North American debut with an extended engagement at Flamingo Las Vegas. Shows will kick off on April 14, and tickets go on sale March 6 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET.

An Evening With Whitney first premiered in Europe during a 24-city run. The production is produced and created by BASE Hologram, in partnership with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston, and is presented through state-of-the-art, proprietary holographic technology. The hologram was created by using a body double of the late singer that's been digitized to look and emulate Houston. They then sync that up with a series of studio takes and live performances by Houston herself. 

The show takes fans on a walk down memory lane with the music icon's hologram, a live five-piece band, backup singers and dancers all set to digitally-remastered arrangements of Houston's biggest hits and fan favorites, including “I Will Always Love You," "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," "The Greatest Love of All” and a cover of Steve Winwood’s "Higher Love."

"In 2011, Whitney and I discussed her idea of an intimate, unplugged concert tour. It was a project we called Whitney Unplugged  or An Evening With Whitney ," said Pat Houston, Houston’s sister-in-law, former manager and President and CEO of The Estate of Whitney E. Houston, in a statement. "While Whitney’s no longer with us, her voice and legacy will live on with us forever. An Evening With Whitney is another chance for us to relive and celebrate the talent that we were so lucky to receive for more than three decades and we’re excited to bring this cutting-edge musical experience to the fans who supported the pop culture phenomenon that was Whitney Houston, because they deserve nothing less."

Those behind the production include choreographer Fatima Robinson, who's worked with Rihanna, Kaye West and Mary J. Blige as well as Houston herself, musical director Keith Harris, a songwriter who's worked with John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Fergie, and Britney Spears, and costume designers Timothy Snell and Marc Bouwer, who both have a long list of celebrities they've dressed and collaborated with over the years. 

"There is a reason why it is so hard to cover a Whitney Houston track, she really was one-of-a-kind,” said Marty Tudor, BASE Hologram CEO of Production and Executive Producer of the show. "What we are doing with this show is celebrating her incredible life and to do that we have to get every detail right. It would be a disservice to her, her family and her fans if we weren’t anything other 100% authentic. We are privileged to have been entrusted with this responsibility and hope audiences are able to come, enjoy and get lost in the music of the industry’s most talented performers."

Houston  died  on Feb. 11, 2012, at 48 years old. She was posthumously honored at the 2012 GRAMMY Awards, NAACP Image Awards, BRIT Awards and many more. 

The late six-time GRAMMY winner will also be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on May 2. 

For more information and tickets for An Evening With Whitney , visit online at WhitneyVegas.com or Ticketmaster.

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The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert Tour Is Coming To Hong Kong On September 16 & 17

Fans of the late Whitney Houston will get the chance to see a holographic version of the Grammy-winning singer belt out her greatest hits in Hong Kong. 

An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert will be held at KITEC on September 16 and 17. The two-night event will feature a holographic version of the songstress performing remastered arrangements of her biggest hits with a full live band, back-up singers, and choreographed dancers.

The tracks on the set list include fan favourites like I Will Always Love You , I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) , I Have Nothing , and Greatest Love of All . The concert will also feature a performance of the 2019 Kygo-produced hit Higher Love .

The hologram was created with the assistance of a choreographer and a body double who worked to recreate Houston’s movements, with permission from the late singer’s surviving family members. 

The last time the singer performed live in public was in February 2012, when she sang impromptu with Kelly Price at a pre-Grammys bash two days before her untimely passing. 

The concert is helmed by music video director and choreographer Fatima Robinson, while Houston’s iconic looks have been given a modern touch by celebrity stylist Timothy Snell. In addition, the stage design is by acclaimed lighting designer, creative director and stage producer LeRoy Bennett.

The tour began in the UK and Ireland in February 2020, and originally included 24 dates in Europe, which were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The show then headed to Las Vegas for a residency in April and May 2022. 

Tickets for the 90-minute concert , which will begin at 8.30pm on both days, are priced at HK$680 and HK$780 and are available on HK Ticketing or Klook .

Header image credits: BASE Hologram via Facebook

From the Middle East to the Far East and a couple of places in between, Anjali has lived in no fewer than seven cities in Asia, and has travelled extensively in the region. She worked as a lifestyle journalist in India before coming to Hong Kong, where her favourite thing to do is island-hopping with her daughter. You can check out her musings on motherhood, courtesy her Instagram profile .

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Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Set to Begin

Whitney Houston is about to appear on the concert stage again.

By Associated Press

Associated Press

Whitney Houston is about to appear on the concert stage again. Eight years after her death, a holographic Houston will embark on a European tour that starts in England on Feb. 25 and runs through early April, with U.S. dates expected to follow. 

“Now is just the right time,” said Pat Houston, the singer’s sister-in-law, former manager and the executor of her estate, which is producing the show in collaboration with BASE Hologram. “In the spirit of Whitney, I know we’re doing all the right things right now.” 

Last week, a few dozen members of the media were given a dress-rehearsal preview in Burbank, California of most of An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour , which features a Houston projected onto a nearly invisible scrim on a stage with real dancers and a live backing band.

The concert set includes most of her biggest hits — “How Will I Know,” “Saving All My Love For You,” “I Will Always Love You,” along with some unexpected rarities, including a cover of Steve Winwood ’s “Higher Love” that Houston first recorded three decades ago.

The show, which was first conceived five years ago, used a body double along with hundreds of hours of Houston performances and extensive CGI synthesizing.   

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“We created the hologram the same way they did Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars  movie Rogue One ,” said Marty Tudor, CEO of BASE Hologram, which has previously revived performing versions of dead singers including Roy Orbison and Maria Callas . “It’s lengthy, it’s tedious, it’s a big, complicated process, but I think it worked.” 

The ambitious performance is the modest brainchild of Whitney Houston herself, in at least one respect. While on her final European tour, she had an “unplugged” section of her show, with a stripped down band and minimal fanfare. Houston liked that so much that shortly before her death at age 48 on the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards, she expressed a desire to one day do an entire tour that way. 

That concept became the model for the hologram concert. “This is something that she wanted to do,” Pat Houston said after the media preview of the show. “I get very emotional watching this, because it is so, so close to what she wanted. The only thing missing is her, physically.” 

On first appearance it’s clear how far holographic technology has come since previous iterations like Tupac ’s holographic stint with Snoop Dogg at Coachella in 2012, with little of the flickering unreality audiences expect. Houston’s appearance in a gold gown looks magically realistic.

The limits are more apparent as the concert goes on, with the projection beam visible and Houston’s movements minimal, but those shortcomings are unlikely to bother the hardcore fans the tour is likely to draw. Houston was never one for elaborate choreography or flashy moves anyway, and her small gestures — a quivering jaw on long-held notes, fluttering fingers for vocal flourishes, are all captured here.

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“Whitney didn’t dance a lot, but when she did do her little moves, they were so perfectly Whitney,” said Fatima Robinson, who choreographed the show. “We did lots of studying her behavior in her videos. We would study her movements, and find the best moments in some of the live videos that just really embody her.”

The show still features plenty of dancing, via four backup dancers and two moving backup singers, all of whom occasionally interact with the hologram. 

But Houston mostly preferred to let her voice do the work, and that part of the show works seamlessly, through a blend of studio takes and live performances. Close listeners may think they’re hearing the album version of a hit before it swerves into seemingly spontaneous moments that give it a live feeling. 

The sound crew also found moments of between-song patter from Houston that were eternal enough to use for the new show. “May God bless you and keep you, and let us pray for peace, and pray for the answer,” she says toward the end of the set. 

The production may be most effective when it embraces its holographic possibilities — including having Houston swarmed in a shimmering shower of golden sparks during the climactic performance of “I Will Always Love You.” 

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Dressing the Houston hologram provided its own set of problems and possibilities. 

“The first thing is, you can’t do black,” Timothy Snell, who oversaw the wardrobe for the show, said with a mock gasp. “And black and sparkles are your first go-to. But Whitney also loved color.” 

Along with the gold gown, her outfits include a shimmering orange jumpsuit and a floor-length pink flowered coat. “She liked to look sophisticated and timeless,” Snell said. “And those timeless looks really show up here.”

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An evening with Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Concert

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If you wanna dance with somebody this January, consider getting tickets to see Whitney Houston’s hologram perform at Bunkamura’s Orchard Hall . This posthumous concert, which is scheduled to hit Nagoya and Osaka after its Tokyo run, debuted in February 2020 as an homage to the late singer and her legacy.

With permission from the singer’s surviving family members, the hologram was created with the help of a choreographer and body double who worked to recreate the star’s movements. The rendition is accompanied by a live band and back-up singers for a show-stopping spectacle covering Houston’s greatest hits from 'I Will Always Love You' to 'Step by Step'.

While the concept of a hologram concert may sound a bit too close to something out of a ‘Black Mirror’ episode for some people, the production is the closest we can get to experiencing a real Whitney Houston performance. 

Tickets for the Tokyo concerts can be booked online via Pia . Visit the official website for more details on the upcoming concerts in Osaka and Nagoya.

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Whitney Houston's Hologram Concert Is Coming to North America, & We're Not Sure How to Feel

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Have you seen The Bodyguard roughly one million times? Do you know every word to “I Have Nothing”? Well, you’re probably the kind of fan who’ll be pumped to know Whitney Houston’s hologram concert is coming to North America . Come April, the unique musical experience — which first premiered with a 24-city European run — will be making its way to Sin City for an extended engagement at Flamingo Las Vegas.

“In 2011, Whitney and I discussed her idea of an intimate, unplugged concert tour. It was a project we called Whitney Unplugged or An Evening With Whitney . While Whitney’s no longer with us, her voice and legacy will live on with us forever,” Pat Houston, the late singer’s sister-in-law and former manager/President and CEO of The Estate of Whitney E. Houston, shared in a statement. “ An Evening With Whitney is another chance for us to relive and celebrate the talent that we were so lucky to receive for more than three decades and we’re excited to bring this cutting-edge musical experience to the fans who supported the pop culture phenomenon that was Whitney Houston , because they deserve nothing less.”

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According to ET , the show will begin its North American run on April 14, and super-fans can try to grab tickets (while they last) once they go on sale March 6 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET.

View this post on Instagram Here’s a peek into An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour! ✨ Opening night kicks off tomorrow in Sheffield, UK. See link in bio for all dates & info! A post shared by Whitney Houston (@whitneyhouston) on Feb 24, 2020 at 8:54am PST

So, you’re familiar with how this works, right? Created by BASE Hologram in partnership with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston, the show centers around a hologram of the late singer modeled after a body double that was then digitized to look like and mimic Houston herself. On top of that, the hologram has been synced with Houston’s live performances and studio takes. The end result is a concert experience featuring digitally remastered arrangements of Houston’s biggest hits.

And, yeah, we get it. Houston was one of the biggest music icons ever . Some of us grew up listening to classics like “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” and “The Greatest Love of All” but were too young to ever see her in concert. How cool would it be to watch Houston (or her hologram, anyway) belt out those inimitable songs from the stage? I feel like if I took my mom to this, it would surely cement my status as her favorite child forevermore.

I would probably be in the minority if people who wouldn't mind seeing this Whitney Houston hologram pic.twitter.com/JI2opQKGSg — Luchiano🤦🏾‍♂️ (@Luchiano404) February 26, 2020

Having said that, though, wouldn’t it also just be kinda… sad? Houston died on Feb. 11, 2012 , at only 48 years old. It seems as though seeing a hologram of her singing on stage would be a stark — and, if we really being honest, maybe bizarre — reminder of her potential cut short.

Plus, we’re not entirely sure how we feel about the fact it’s potentially exploiting a woman who is deceased for profit. Houston had notoriously been exploited for her fame throughout her life; it feels a little unsettling that such a fate also follows her in death.

Regardless of whether you’re already saving the date to score tickets or feel like the whole thing is a shameful money grab, one thing’s for sure: Seeing a hologram of Houston in concert would be a mind-bending experience. If that sounds like your kind of night, you can get more info on tickets at WhitneyVegas.com .

Click here to learn more about the life and death of Whitney Houston .

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This Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Is Actually Happening Next Week

Although many fans are scratching their heads about it, a Whitney Houston hologram tour is indeed kicking off next week in Europe, eight years after the singer’s tragic death.

An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram will begin next Tuesday and end sometime in April. The estate is expecting U.S. dates to follow the initial run, according to The Associated Press .

“Now is just the right time,” said the singer’s sister-in-law and former manager Pat Houston , who serves as the executor of Houston’s estate. “In the spirit of Whitney, I know we’re doing all the right things right now.”

The show, which has been in development for five years, is a partnership with BASE Hologram.The company used a body double to turn hundreds of hours of Houston’s performance videos into a near life-like experience.

“We created the hologram the same way they did Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars movie Rogue One ,” said BASE Hologram CEO Marty Tudor. “It’s lengthy, it’s tedious, it’s a big, complicated process, but I think it worked.”

Professional dancers and a live band will accompany the hologram on stage. The dancers were choreographed by Fatima Robinson , who has worked with Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, and Mary J. Blige.

“Whitney didn’t dance a lot, but when she did do her little moves, they were so perfectly Whitney,” said Robinson. “We did lots of studying her behavior in her videos . We would study her movements, and find the best moments in some of the live videos that just really embody her.”

Houston’s biggest hits, including “How Will I Know,” “Saving All My Love For You,” and “I Will Always Love You,” fill the show’s setlist. Also present are lesser known tracks such as her cover of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love,” which was recorded three decades ago.

The theme of An Evening With Whitney was partially inspired by Houston’s desire to provide her fans with a more authentic and intimate experience. According to Pat, Houston added an “unplugged” segment during her final European tour and loved the stripped down effect so much she expressed interest in doing an entire tour in that style.

“This is something that she wanted to do,” Pat Houston said following a press preview of the performance, according to AP. “I get very emotional watching this, because it is so, so close to what she wanted. The only thing missing is her, physically.”

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