'Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert' Adds 100-City World Tour

It’s an Avatar State of the Union address, as the concert tour begins to explode

Now this is a song everyone can sing along to. Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert, the concert series celebrating the beloved 2005-2008 Nicktoon, will be going on a 100-city world tour starting in September.

If said world tour is starting in September, with dates and tour details being announced this spring, the 100 cities will be in addition to what’s already started (or maybe not, it’s unclear). The show debuted Sunday at Royal Festival Hall in London, with the next stop being tomorrow’s show at Le Grand Rex in Paris, France. Since the original 4 concerts were announced, a return to Royal Festival Hall was scheduled for February 10, and the February 24 show at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco, California is joined by one on February 23 and a matinee show on the second date at 1 PM. The Kings Theatre show in Brooklyn, New York on March 2 has a 2 PM show now too. April brings a leg in Germany and the Netherlands. On April 27 there’s a show at Mitsubishi Electric Hall in Düsseldorf, followed by two shows on the 28th at De Doelen in Rotterdam. The show heads to Berlin for an April 30 show at Tempodrom. And finally on June 15, they’ll be at Riverside Theatre in Perth, Australia. But again, the world tour apparently starts in September.

The two+-hour concert is produced by GEA Live and brings the show’s iconic musical score to life with an orchestra as the scenes the pieces are used in play onscreen. The show’s original composer Jeremy Zuckerman, co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and editor Jeff Adams have all teamed up to expand the compositions for the world tour.

“Some of these compositions are over 20 years old. It didn’t occur to me then that the music would be so enduring,” Zuckerman said. “I think its longevity is a testament to the quality of the ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ story, as much as — if not more so — to the quality of the music. Now, years later, there are so many things I wouldn’t do compositionally and creatively… In my mind, the music was being generated by an orchestra. But that was so beyond the budget. It didn’t even enter into the realm of possibility. And now here we are 20-plus years later, actually getting to hear this music performed by an orchestra, sounding close to what it would’ve been like in my 26-year-old self’s most indulgent fantasies. I’m so profoundly amazed and grateful.” He went on to express hope the show will also play with fans’ heartstrings. “All you have to do is like the story to enjoy the show — at least that’s my intention,” he said. “I hope people from all walks of life come to see it. I want them to leave feeling like they got their money’s worth, and maybe slightly put through the ringer emotionally, in the best way possible.”

Konietzko chimed in saying, “It is deeply gratifying to see Jeremy Zuckerman’s incredible music from the original series get the epic treatment we always knew it deserved. The fans have shared our passion for his score for nearly two decades, and qwe’re so proud to have it brought to life and delivered to them in such a powerful way.”

While Zuckerman is not the composer for the live-action Netflix series premiering next month, he is returning for Avatar Studios’s projects, with their first released project being an animated film releasing in October 2025.

Sources: Variety, Avatar in Concert

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