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ABTB completes Music Production and Sound Design for “Beyond All Boundaries” - Opening November 6th at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans with Executive Producer Tom Hanks

Founded in 1992, Audio By The Bay Entertainment Group has quickly grown into one of the premiere creative and technical production companies in the entertainment industry. Audio By The Bay currently provides creative, audio, video, show control, special effects, and show production services to many of the top companies in theme park, location-based entertainment, television, film, and advertising/marketing industries. With extensive backgrounds in audio design and production as well as theme park show production, Audio By The Bay's principals have a been a part of some of the biggest entertainment projects ever produced.

Beyond All Boundaries, created exclusively for The National World War II Museum, is a unique and powerful 4-D cinematic experience available nowhere else in the world. Created and crafted with 21st-century technology and utilizing a 120-feet wide immersive screen, the production plunges viewers into the 20th-century’s most titanic struggle. It tells the tale of the Greatest Generation’s journey from Pearl Harbor into the fire of epic battles to America’s final victory in the War That Changed the World in the words of the veterans themselves. The Museum is honored to have Tom Hanks as Executive Producer and the voices of some of Hollywood’s top stars bringing to life the words of actual World War II participants and war correspondents.

True to history it is, but to appeal to the broadest possible audience -– from the Greatest Generation to Gen Y -– the Museum engaged Hollywood technicians to create a jaw-dropping experience in 4-D, a technique that engages all the audience’s senses with digital effects, life-sized props, animation, and atmospherics as well as film and sound. Audiences will feel the tank treads rumbling across North Africa’s deserts, brush snow from their cheeks during the wintery Battle of the Bulge, and flinch as anti-aircraft fire tries to bring down their B-17 on a bombing run over Nazi Germany.

Beyond All Boundaries was produced by Phil Hettema, onetime Senior Vice President, Attraction Development for Universal Studios and President of the Hettema Group. The Los Angeles-based studio specializes in crafting immersive entertainment for Hollywood movie studios and dynamic museum exhibits such as those at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry and the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. When approached by The National World War II Museum, the heralded production team eagerly agreed to work with the New Orleans institution. The reasons were as personal as they were professional.

NARRATED BY TOM HANKS

Featuring the voices of

ADAM BEECH
KEVIN BACON
CORBIN BLEU
PATRICIA CLARKSON
KEVIN CONNOLLY
JAMES CROMWELL
BLYTHE DANNER
VIOLA DAVIS
JESSE EISENBERG
JENNIFER GARNER
JOHN GOODMAN
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
JAY HERNANDEZ
EMILE HIRSCH
KEVIN JONAS
TOM KANE
JUSTIN LONG
TOBEY MAGUIRE
JOSEPH MAZZELLO
PAUL MCCRANE
DARAN NORRIS
WENDELL PIERCE
CHRIS PINE
BRAD PITT
GIOVANNI RIBISI
WILLIAM SADLER
HANS SCHOEBER
SAB SHIMONO
GARY SINISE
ELIJAH WOOD

PRODUCTION CREDITS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: TOM HANKS

PRODUCER: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM - DR. GORDON “NICK” MUELLER

CONCEPT, DESIGN & PRODUCTION: THE HETTEMA GROUP

SHOW PRODUCER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR: PHIL HETTEMA

WRITER: CHRIS ELLIS

HISTORICAL CONSULTANTS & CO-WRITERS: DR. GORDON “NICK” MUELLER, DR. DON MILLER, HUGH AMBROSE,

DIRECTOR: DAVID BRIGGS

MUSIC COMPOSER: BRUCE BROUGHTON

PROJECT DIRECTORS: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM BOB FARNSWORTH / THE HETTEMA GROUP ANTHONY PRUETT

ASST. TO TOM HANKS: ALLISON DIAMOND

RESEARCH TEAM: THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: SETH PARIDON, TOM CZEKANSKI, JOEY BALFOUR, TOMMY LOFTON / THE HETTEMA GROUP:DIANA CIMADAMORE, LAURA COLON, CORRINE CUNNINGHAM

MEDIA PRODUCTION:

PRODUCER: DOUG YELLIN

PRODUCTION DESIGN: DAREN ULMER

ASSOC. PRODUCER: SUSAN BETH SMITH

VISUAL EFFECTS/POST PRODUCTION: MOUSETRAPPE, INC

MUSIC SCORING AND CONDUCTING: TIM WILLIAMS

SOUND DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: BOB WACKERMAN, PAUL FREEMAN AUDIO BY THE BAY PRODUCTIONS, INC.

ART DIRECTION: YAEL PARDESS

THEATRICAL PRODUCTION

SCENIC DESIGN: DANIEL IONAZZI

LIGHTING DESIGN: STEVEN YOUNG, LISA PASSAMONTE GREEN, MICHAEL MAHLUM - VISUAL TERRAIN LLC

AUDIO SOUND DESIGN: PAUL FREEMAN

TECHNICAL SUPERVISION: BOB CHAMBERS / IT’S ALIVE CO.

TECHNICAL MANAGER: SUSAN CUMMINGS

TECHNICAL AND PRODUCTION CREDITS

3D ANIMATION: JASON McKINLEY / RADICAL 3D

LEAD COMPOSITOR: CEDAR CONNER

MEDIA PRODUCTION:

MATILDA PRODUCTION SERVICES, INC

TECHNICAL PRODUCTION & SPECIAL EFFECTS: L.A. PROPOINT, INC., ELECTROSONIC SYSTEMS, INC., SOUNDWORKS, BANDIT LIGHTING, RANDO PRODUCTIONS, INC., ARTISTIC ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES, LLC

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS

CONSULTANT PROJECT DIRECTOR: LISA NASH

INSTALLATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT: JUDD NISSEN

PROJECT COORDINATION: MATT SWEENEY

SITE COORDINATION: CURTIS PORSCHE

PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT: GEORGE WIKTOR, GUS STONE

CONCEPT PRODUCTION DESIGN: JEROME SIRLIN

CASTING SERVICES: KALMENSON & KALMENSON, INC., GUS STONE

SAG SIGNATORY: KABUKI PRODUCTIONS, INC

David Briggs (Media Director), Bob Wackerman (Music Co-Producer - ABTB), Phil Hettema (Show Producer and Creative Director), Tom Hanks (Executive Producer), Timothy Williams (Musical Score - ABTB), Paul Freeman (Music Co-Producer/Sound Designer - ABTB) Daren Ulmer (Production Designer) - Not Pictured: Doug Yellin (Media Producer), Susan Beth Smith (Associate Media Producer).