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 Chicago
Scenic has provided complete production and staging services
for Leo Burnett's annual employee breakfast meeting since
1983, providing all technical and scenic services, equipment
contractors, and manpower required to pull off the elaborate
event each year.
The annual
breakfast is a Burnett tradition and Chicago Scenic has been
able to help keep it an event that employees look forward
to by creating a new and unique experience each year.
 Chicago
Scenic's first and biggest challenge for a Burnett breakfast
involved creating a 100-foot-wide apple tree for the employees
to eat under. The tree had over 1,000 three-foot-diameter
apples and a 30-foot-diameter trunk complete with large video
projection screens. Included in the tree's network of branches
was a complete lighting and sound system along with many special
effects. Chicago Scenic had only 36 hours to install, stage,
and remove this event (which took nine 40-foot tractor trailers
to move and over 60 electricians, carpenters, and riggers
to install) from the seventh floor ballroom of Chicago's Marriott
Hotel.
For a
more recent breakfast, Chicago Scenic created the "Leos,"
a take off on the Oscars, complete with paparazzi created
with large photo images of photographers and strobe lights,
and 12-foot-tall "Leo" statues flanking the stage.
Another year Chicago Scenic helped Leo Burnett produce an
MTV-style awards show complete with a mosh pit and stage decorated
with a massive lava lamp and a giant slide that presenters
used to arrive on stage.
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