Each of the three venues - the Padang, floating platform and National Stadium - has a different character and significance. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ahead of its transformation into the permanent NS Square.
While the floating platform is a unique venue, said actress and former NDP creative director Beatrice Chia-Richmond, the National Stadium offers a chance for a more intimate show. The distance between the performers and audience is shorter and this makes for a better show, said Ms Chia-Richmond, who directed the show segments for NDP 2011 at the floating platform and the 2016 edition at the National Stadium.
"The Marina Bay skyline is already a unique advantage as it provides a gorgeous backdrop to the stage, with a bay for fireworks, a naval defence display and great vantage points for the aerial displays." But the best NDP venue of all, said Mr Lee, is still the old stadium, which was the site for most NDPs through the 1980s till 2004, before it was shut for renovation in 2007 and later demolished in 2010. It had the space, capacity and ability to accommodate all the NDP requirements, he said.
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