Kooza!
Last night’s Cirque du Soleil show was spectacular, as expected. Words really can’t do the experience justice.
Overheard from behind me during the contortionists’ act:
Boy’s voice (incredulous): Are those two girls?
Girl’s voice: They’re…flexible.
They certainly were, though I was more impressed with two acts from after the intermission.
The Wheel of Death was actually two wheels connected on a spinning axle, with gymnasts running both inside and outside the wheels, up to about fifty feet above the stage.
Balancing on Chairs was a slow strength and balancing exhibition, with a single gymnast repeatedly adding chairs to the stack, then balancing on the top of the stack and waiting for his next chair.
The highwire act was pretty good, but someone seemed to be having a bad night. The performance did prove the value of an alert, live band (as opposed to a soundtrack recording) that can redo a stanza or two while someone does a little unplanned climbing.
The clowns throughout rocked. Their humor definitely seemed to be more adult than I remember from the Corteo show in 2008, but then again there shouldn’t have been that many kids there at an 8-11 show on a school night. Great night, and we escaped with only buying one program and two coffee cups.
Corteo Coffee Cups….Corteo Coffee Cups…Corteo Coffee Cups….