SPECTACULAR SPECTACULAR: So Jen and I both lost our Cirque du Soleil virginity during this trip to Las Vegas, and as is often the case (or so popular culture tells me) we enjoyed the first time so much we leapt at the opportunity to do it again the next night. First with the Beatles show, LOVE, and then with the gravity-defying KÀ, each astounding in its own way. LOVE is a whimsical, exuberant run through the Beatles catalog that's much more emotional than straight narrative, much more of an interpretive challenge than one would expect from Las Vegas, with an enjoyable level of the flipping in the air and the flying and what not.
(One has to love disclaimers like "NOTE: The characters as described below represent the Director’s vision for his show and in no way consist in an official interpretation of The Beatles songs.")
And then, KÀ, for which the mammoth tilting stage itself produces a holy shit! reaction ... and then, well, you know the rule -- if you're going to show me a model of a Wheel of Death in Act I, you damn well better deliver the mammoth Wheel of Death in Act III, which is just one of those jaw-dropping stunts for which video cannot capture the level of risk and nervous energy. (Jaw-dropper number two is what I'd call "the human Plinko board.") I don't know how many people have the skills to pull off this performance, but thank goodness they're all in one place. KÀ has more dread and tension than LOVE and is less suitable for the kids, but, hey, why are your kids in Vegas?
A special thank you, by the way, to the Vegas equivalent of TKTS for making these shows that much more possible. Well worth the extra pre-show schlep to the theater's box office.
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