CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Cirque du Soleil, Angel teaming

Variety.com: "Cirque du Soleil and the Luxor Hotel will partner on a new production show featuring magician Criss Angel that will be directed by Cirque du Soleil. Show is slated to open at the Luxor in summer 2008."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Criss Angel and Cirque are both known for out of the ordinary performances, so I would be very interested to see this show. It is a bit strange, however, to see this combination, because Cirque is so clearly about spectacle, and Angel has made himself a name in magic by specifically eliminating a lot of flashy elements from his performances. Im intrigured...

Anonymous said...

I'm intrigued not intrigured. I swear I'm not trying to get more credit for comments, that spelling mistake just bothered me. Sorry.

Anonymous said...

I've never seen a cirque show, but this would definitely be interesting. I feel like most shows like this are usually concentrated on the performance of the ensemble, so it's interesting that they're giving a cirque show a main star. Maybe other cirque shows are like this, but I feel like they're typically no-star shows.

Anonymous said...

I'm not a big Criss Angel fan, I think he is a bit fake in his whole hard core rocker image...but I still think it would be interesting to see if only for the Cirque aspect. I just hope this doesn't become a trend with Crique shows since I really enjoy that the performers aren't hired because of their name but because they are extremely talented...who knows though, this might Crique's best show ever, but I doubt it.

Anonymous said...

I was wondering what this project was going to be. How many shows is Cirque going to put in Vegas before people stop….well…..going? I suppose it doesn’t matter, Guy has more money than all of Canada.

Anonymous said...

It's interesting to me that Cirque has test out how many traveling shows they can have before they saturate their own market and found the magic number to be seven, yet they continue to add more shows to the Strip. I really wonder if they thought how much they are hurting their own ticket sales...