I think I know a thing or two about the circus. When I was growing up© my parents took me to the circus 4-5 times a year and it wasn’t a traveling circus or a tent. My city had a permanent circus building and every few months a new program would come to town to perform for sell-out crowds.
I was there during the golden age of the Soviet circus - world famous magicians, clowns, exotic animals, ground-breaking acts, daring performances.
No wonder that many performers in the Cirque Du Soleil shows are from the Russian/Soviet school of circus. I attended three Cirque Du Soleil shows so far and they turned out to be some of the best shows of any kind I’ve seen in my life. Everything from costumes and specially composed music to the highest quality acts is perfectly matched to create a magical show. This song from the show Alegria is probably my favorite. Something about the dramatic music and raspy tragic voice of the singer; sometimes I keep playing it over and over….
The same song but without noise is linked in the “Song of the day” in the top right corner of my site.
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Doc
// Jul 25, 2008 at 9:33 pm
We’ve seen all 3 Cirque shows in Vegas: total knockouts.
Also saw the traveling show here at Kemper 2 years ago: the venue did not lend itself well to their style. If someone attends the show this year downtown, would be interested in a review…
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m.v.
// Jul 25, 2008 at 10:00 pm
We saw traveling show in the tent in St.Louis. The tent was of their design and had AC but it wasn’t the same quality as their permanent shows, so I am leery about paying lots of money for traveling show.
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travel
// Jul 26, 2008 at 7:47 am
Doc…I went and took the grandkids. We all thought it was wonderful, but have never been to Vegas so can’t compare it to that. There wasn’t a bad seat in the house at Sprint as they limited the seats. No upper deck seating and just half the arena facing the stage open. Lots of interaction with the audience and comedy which the grandkids loved. The high trapeze acts were awesome not just for the tricks but the presentation as though the two acrobats were one person. Costume and music were very good.
It was a unique experience. I would imagine the staging, etc. in Vegas is much better but for an arena event, it was well worth the money.
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Doc
// Jul 26, 2008 at 8:56 am
travel -
thanks - good to know. they arranged the Kemper quite the same way a couple of years ago, byt Kemper lends itself much better to barnum & Baley….
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