Out of the smoke, the stooping figure of Johannesburg Mayor Kabelo Gwamanda broke the blue lights pouring down from the stage's ceiling.
The City of Johannesburg chose The Lesedi at the Joburg Theatre to razzle-dazzle the audience with its water security strategy launch on Tuesday evening.
The strategy was informed by two years of increasing water outages and on the back of a nearly three-week water outage across half the city.