Issue #133: FEB 2015 – Released!

Welcome to the latest edition of Fascination, the Unofficial Cirque du Soleil Newsletter.

It’s certainly been an interesting time since we’ve last spoken. Compared to recent months it’s been rather quiet on the Cirque front, hasn’t it? Le Grand Concert has come and gone, the Boutique still hasn’t re-opened, and Zumanity came out of its extended dark period to… no changes at all? I guess we just can’t trust everything we hear on the Internet.

That being said, by mid-month Cirque did drop us a little interesting news: it signed a first-look deal with 20th Century FOX Television to develop live-action prime-time scripted projects. “Our goal with this partnership is not to televise our live performances, but rather create content in the primetime scripted arena that will elevate the genre by drawing from Cirque’s creative vision,” said Jacques Méthé, President of Cirque du Soleil Média. Just exactly what that means at this point in time is unknown, but Cirque’s previous foray into scripted television didn’t quite go so well. SOLSTROM was not a hit by any stretch of the imagination, although it did provide us an interesting look at talent outside of the Cirque. Maybe this time we’ll get “Moha Samedi Goes to the City”, “Fly, Fly, Green Bird, Fly”, “The No-Headed Clown in Apartment 30B”, “ZED in Love”, “The Banana Shplitz” or “Wo ist das Mime?” as series? I poke fun, but I do wish our friends at Cirque du Soleil Média all the best as it enters the cut-throat industry of television production.

Last month we bid adieu to Dralion, but before the show closed our friends over at TheChapiteau had a chance to speak with Agnès Sohier, a Canadian singer who toured the show and had formed part of the L’Ame-Force duo for nearly 15 years. The show may be gone, but get to know a bit more of Agnès’s life and find out how she joined a show that was originally meant for one male singer! In addition, I’ve thrown together a few thoughts about LE GRAND CONCERT, which I was able to see via a web-based Quebec TV Broadcast, and tried to get an idea what people were saying about JOYA down in the Rivera Maya. Do they like it? Find out within…

As always we also have the posts made to Cirque’s Facebook pages, and updates to Cirque’s touring schedule. Oh, and don’t forget to pick up Issue #4 of “The Chapiteau-Fascination! Magazine” here: < http://issuu.com/thechapiteau/docs/tcfmag_issue_4 >.

So, let’s get started!

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