Cirque Looks Ahead to 3rd “One Night for One Drop”

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Robin Leach checks in on the 2nd One Night for One Drop event – via the Las Vegas Sun:

Moments after the extraordinary Cirque du Soleil fundraising performance and gala “One Night for One Drop” at Mandalay Bay on Friday night, founder Guy Laliberte promised that there would be a third extravaganza next year.

Before the event wound down early Saturday morning, Jerry Nadal, Cirque’s senior vice president of resident shows worldwide based here in Las Vegas, said that it will take place in the theater of Cirque’s “The Beatles Love” at the Mirage next March 20.

More than 100 Cirque du Soleil performers took the stage for the original production created and directed by Mukhtar O.S. Mukhtar alongside guests including The Tenors, violinist Lindsey Stirling, “America’s Best Dance Crew” Season 6 Champions IaMmE Crew and spoken-word artist In-Q.

In what was a breathtaking and artistic spectacular, they brought together the message of “One Thought, One World” as a metaphor of time and the dwindling water supplies that effect society — even here in Las Vegas and California.

Celebrities at the blue arrivals carpet, pre-party at Aureole and after-party at Moorea Beach Club included Guy; One Drop CEO Catherine Bachand; Kyle Richards, Mauricio Umansky and Camille Grammer of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”; Holly Madison; Blues Traveler; Mary Wilson of The Supremes; comedienne Heather McDonald; Brendan Fitzpatrick and Morgan Stewart of “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills”; Boyz II Men; Jabbawockeez; UFC Hall of Famer Forrest Griffin; and “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 10 winner Roy “Big Country” Nelson.

Also: Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Oscar Goodman; illusionist Criss Angel; U.S. Olympic rowing gold medalists Esther Lofgren and Susan Francia; artist and painter Natalie Irish; Border Grill chef Susan Feniger; Thunder From Down Under; “Fantasy”; DJ 88; and dancers from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Everybody agreed that Mukhtar had conceptualized a masterpiece in telling the story of the “desertification” on earth. The audience gave the performers loud cheers and a long standing ovation in the finale with The Tenors and the cast singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

Guy summed it up: “This was a totally incredible night. I, like everybody else, saw the show for the first time tonight. That’s not easy for a creative person at the top, but I left it all in very capable hands. It turned out better than I ever expected.

“Tonight has made me the happiest man in the world, and we’ll do it all over again next year. I promise.”

{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun | http://goo.gl/KebJzN }