Welcome to the latest edition of Fascination, the Unofficial Cirque du Soleil Newsletter.
We’ve got another great issue for you this month, but before we get to it I just wanted to mention a quick format change for this month; a test if you will. Because we publish the news for the month as it is made (and therefore published on Fascination! Web), it can get somewhat messy here, especially since some items are mini-interviews, some long exposés, while others are reviews of happenings and just general news bits. So to keep some semblance of order I’ve broken up our news section – CIRQUE BUZZ – into three divisions, which you’ll find noted in the Table of Contents below. These are: “La Presse” – general news, “Q&A” – Quick chats and press interviews, and “Special Engagement” – for longer, more in-depth articles published by other press sources. It’s a small change but one that will hopefully benefit you, the reader!
To that end I’ll bypass commenting on headlines this month and get right to the good stuff (other than to say it looks like TOTEM is up for a few changes soon!). Keith Johnson, after seeing KURIOS in the Seattle area recently, reached out to composer Raphael Bëau to ask a few questions about his work with the show. Since he only speaks French there was a slight language barrier, but thanks to the show’s publicist we were able to work through it and have a nice email conversation with him.
A couple of issues back, Keith Johnson (in his review of KURIOS under the Big Top and VAREKAI in Arena) mentioned the new-style programme book Varekai now has, praising the way it told the show’s story and how the new “book” made updating it an easier process. A few of you contacted us wondering more about how the new book went about telling the show’s story. And while it’s a bit difficult for us to share images of the new book (since we’re a text-based newsletter), we can share the text used now to describe the story (thanks to Varekai’s timely appearance in the Atlanta area…) And so you’ll find that within this month.
As always we also have the relevant posts made to Cirque’s Facebook pages, and updates to Cirque’s touring schedule.
So, let’s get started!
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