July 4th fireworks on TV: Bigger NYC show to fire 80,000 shells around Brooklyn Bridge

 

The famed 142-year-old suspension bridge with the telltale Gothic columns will undergo a digital facelift for its pyrotechnical closeup of 80,000 shells, following a concert hosted by Ariana DeBose featuring the Jonas Brothers, Trisha Yearwood, Lenny Kravitz, Keke Palmer, Ava Max and Eric Church.

“The Brooklyn Bridge absolutely stars in the concert and in the fireworks shot off four barges and from various points," says executive producer Will Coss, adding the bridge and columns will be enhanced digitally by "bespoke" projection mapping, which "will bring these static columns to life for the first time."

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