Cirque de Soleil

[lvdkeyes]

If you haven't seen any of their performances here is a sample of what you have been missing. This one is at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The theater was specially built for this show to the tune of $40M.

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/ ... video.aspx

[fountainhall]

If you haven't seen any of their performances here is a sample of what you have been missing. This one is at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The theater was specially built for this show to the tune of $40M

I saw the 'O' show at the Bellagio ten years ago. It completely amazed me. I thought it was the finest 90 minutes of pure entertainment I had ever seen in my life. Since then, I have seen two other Cirque shows - The Beatles 'Love' at The Mirage and 'Ka' at the MGM Grand. Technically, 'Ka' was just jaw-dropping. I have never before or since seen such huge and extraordinary technical effects. Interestingly, all the shows required special theatres to be built and constructed by the casinos, which is why you can never see them anywhere else. And that’s as good a reason as any for making a trip to Las Vegas in my view. There are clips from all 7 of Cirque’s Las Vegas shows on this site –

http://promo-www.cirquedusoleil.com/las-vegas/home.html

‘Le Rêve’ at Wynn’s is another must-see show. Directed by Franco Dragone, who was originally with Cirque and directed ‘O’, it is not surprisingly another water-based show. There is a 9-minute You Tube clip of excerpts, but unfortunately it gives you almost no feeling of the scale and spectacle of the show, which I found incredible. How you can have a stage full of water one minute and then a normal floor the next, I have no idea!



Cirque has toured its normal tent shows around Asia (although no Cirque show can be described as ‘normal’). I saw them in Singapore and Hong Kong, but they have also played Taipei, Shanghai and Tokyo. It also now has a permanent show in one of the casinos in Macao, but friends tell me this is a pale shadow of the Las Vegas shows.

[lvdkeyes]

I don't recall the name of the show, but we saw one of their productions in Macau.

[fountainhall]

The Cirque show at The Venetian in Macao is called 'Zaia'. That's the one I had heard is pretty average compared to Cirque's other permanent shows. Franco Dragone also has a US$250 million show (yes, that's the correct investment amount!) called 'The House of Dancing Water' recently opened in Macao's City of Dreams and this is definitely the show to see, according to reports. It has attracted far better reviews than 'Zaia'. In fact, last September CNN called 'Zaia' "a failing flop".

http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/visit/be ... ter-481618