Dreamtime is an adaptation of several of Cerrone's earlier works. Cerrone was invited to perform several outdoor concerts with laser lights, synchronized water fountains and fireworks commemorating national celebrations before audience of hundreds of thousands. The first, in 1978 was a show inside a plexiglass pyramid on the Pavilion for 1200 people. Over the next ten years the concerts developed more of a theme and narrative storyline. In 1988 at the request of Paris’ Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, Cerrone conceived the mystical rock opera, The Collector. The Collector, featured musicians Mary Hopkins, Steve Overland and rock bands YES,
Earth, Wind & Fire, The
Art of Noise and The Paris Opera Choir and was performed on the Trocadero in Paris. The show was revised for the 1989 celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution on the edges of the Seine for an audience of over 600,000. This show called Evolution featured musicians
Laura Branigan and Steve Overland with a cast of 30 in the ensemble and choir. Another version of the show, now called
Harmony, starring
Sonia Jones and
Steve Overland, was performed before 800,000 people over the port of Tokyo. Harmony was produced to celebrate the launch of a new Japanese television satellite channel in high definition. Cerrone and Broadway director David Niles had to rework the huge, spectacular outdoor concerts into a show that would fit into a 1200-seat theater. The result was the Broadway musical experience
Dreamtime, again featuring Jones and Overland in the leads. ==Production history==