The Olympic Cauldron will be extinguished to signal the end of the Games. It will be lit again in Sochi, Russia during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics. Olympics Closing Ceremony 2012,
The creative director and choreographer of the ceremony is Kim Gavin.Also involved are designer Es Devlin, music director David Arnold and lighting director Patrick Woodroffe alongside executive producer Stephen Daldry. Daldry described the Olympic closing ceremony as "one of the most exciting events I have ever seen".
Watchers should also be able to spot the link with Shakespeare's The Tempest which will run through all the ceremonies."It is there and it is a great moment," he said. Ms Devlin said they had happily indulged in the chance to "visually draw on everything" that British imagination can offer.Music director David Arnold said: “It’s going to be beautiful, cheeky, cheesy, camp, silly and thrilling".
There will be around 4,100 performers including 3,500 adult volunteers, 380 schoolchildren from the six original host boroughs, and 250 professionals. There are around 15 rehearsals for volunteers taking place in Three Mills Studio and at a full scale site in Dagenham, East London.
The overall budget for all four Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies is £80 million, which is twice the original budget. With the opening ceremony set to cost £27 million, the remainder will be shared across the other three ceremonies.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics_closing_ceremony
