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Mark Bedell spent most of 2011 installing and managing Dolly Parton's new PIRATES VOYAGE show in Myrtle Beach, SC.  (www.PiratesVoyage.com) This was anything but a normal show.  Laced with music, Circ style apparatus and of course lots and lots of staged combat... this 13 million dollar show broke all sorts of records.  The show was slated to do 218 performances from June to the end of December 2011.  Due to the amazing box office success of the show, they actually did 420 performances in that time.   Mr. Bedell managed the crew, the performers, handled payroll, trained new hires in staged combat, maintained the aluminum swords, fixed broken props, handled all the paperwork, occasionally had to be an underwater scuba tech and he played the lead role in the show for the main actor's days off.  

With all the elements: staged combat, dancing, singing, gymnastics, trapeze, trampoline-wall, Russian swing, aerial net (zfx), spring board diving, sea lions, African cranes, macaws, dogs, ducks, pyrotechnics, fire whip, fire poi, Spanish web, etc... this is (near as anyone can tell) possibly the largest live stunt show in the world.   Now that the show is all installed, and has completed it's 1st record breaking season, Mark has chosen to leave the show.  He has respectfully declined his 2012 contract and is moving on to create new shows at Theme Parks and other venues around the world.   How do you top the largest live stunt show in the world?  Wait and see.  There are very exciting things in store!

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         The Legendary John Hagner, President of the HOLLYWOOD STUNTMEN'S HALL OF FAME. The less legendary Mark Bedell, and the

         BORN legendary Marshall Bedell. 3 generations of stuntmen! At the opening on THE WILEY WEST STUNT SHOW in Minnesota.