At the recent One Drop Walk for Water at the Springs Preserve, Cirque du Soleil Senior Vice President Jerry Nadal put a timeline on some highly anticipated upgrades we’ve heard about recently…
LOVE at The Mirage:
As earlier reported, “Love” is due for a major renovation in time for the show’s 10th anniversary in June. That effort should be underway in early 2016. “’Love’ will get an $8 million refresh and at the end of February, we’ll soft-open that again after taking it down for a couple of weeks, and then run that for a couple of months,” Nadal said. “Closer to the end of May, or in early June, we’ll do another red-carpet event, big event tied to the anniversary. Giles Martin will again design the music, having access to all of the material the Beatles recorded over the course of their entire career. “There will be technical changes. There will be choreographic changes. The sound is being changed out,” Nadal said. “It will be a big overhaul that will cover the show’s next 10 years.”
And BELIEVE at Luxor:
Criss Angel’s “Believe,” too, is set for a large-scale overhaul possibly by January, provided the budget and resources for those upgrades can be finalized this year. It was expected “Believe” might be refreshened as early as November, around the show’s seventh anniversary on Halloween. But as Nadal said, “We’re looking at changes with Criss, sorting that all out, and I’d say probably January or February, hopefully, we can make some changes on that show with him.” The show will remain titled “Believe” and in its current format at least through the end of this year. “We’d like to make significant changes to it,” Nadal said. “There are three more years right now on that (10-year) contract, and we need a big refresh. Criss has an amazing fan base so you want to give them a reason to keep coming back again and again.”
{ SOURCE: The Las Vegas Sun | http://goo.gl/PCDC4C }
