Issue #152: SEP 2016

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

It’s been a rather busy month for me here behind the scenes, but a rather slow one (relatively speaking) news wise for Cirque du Soleil. But even so there are quite a few little bits and bobs to highlight: Amaluna celebrated it’s 1,500th performance – on August 6th – and had a special cake designed just for the occasion, which you can see here: http://goo.gl/zU66tp, http://goo.gl/kJu3KS, and http://goo.gl/V0cxSn. OVO had a reason to celebrate too: it reached the 100 arena show mark (http://goo.gl/VtFDLa). And TOTEM welcomed a brand new singer into the fold – Betina Quest (http://goo.gl/K65h4N) – making her debut in Osaka, Japan. And LUZIA is featured in the September issue of Canada’s FASHION Magazine. A number of photos from the shoot have been featured across Cirque’s Facebook pages; see them here: (http://goo.gl/eqiWSJ, http://goo.gl/oT3pWS, http://goo.gl/Cs1si4, http://goo.gl/VqTsdR, and http://goo.gl/qoeV5T). Oh, and check out these fantastic new visuals for LUZIA for its run in Toronto – http://goo.gl/uPzklt – aren’t they great?!

On August 12th, Cirque du Soleil announced that the August 22nd, 24th, 25th, and 31st performances of PARAMOUR were being canceled to make “creative changes”. The production released a statement explaining, “True to our roots as street performers, our shows evolve over time to reflect feedback from our consumers and our creative team.” At press time the show is back up and running, and what those changes are haven’t made the rounds yet (but we’re eager to hear about them!) Either way, we’ll have to wait and see what, if anything, the changes do to help the show’s gross earnings…

Week      This Week	 Potential   Difference    Seats   % Cap
Ending      Gross         Grosses    in Dollars    Sold	 
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10-Jul    $859,152.10  $1,805,456.00 -$141,160.30   9,176  60.50%
17-Jul    $897,710.10  $1,805,456.00   $38,558.00  10,088  66.51%
24-Jul    $980,483.20  $1,805,456.00   $82,773.10  10,681  70.42%
31-Jul    $981,468.10  $1,805,456.00      $984.90  10,808  71.26%
07-Aug    $910,341.70  $1,805,456.00  -$71,126.40  10,245  67.54%
14-Aug    $997,867.25  $1,805,456.00   $87,525.55  11,360  74.89%
21-Aug    $936,761.55  $1,805,456.00  -$61,105.70  11,376  75.00%
28-Aug    $553,422.70  $1,166,264.00 -$383,338.85   6,519  68.77%
04-Sep    $890,754.60  $1,592,392.00  $337,331.90  10,218  76.99%

Naturally the Olympics in Rio de Janiero was all the rage, despite all the bad press leading up to the event. Cirque du Soleil celebrated the happening with a new webseries – “FROM ATHLETE TO ARTIST” (which you can find links to all the episodes in our OUTREACH section this month) thanking Jenna Randall from “O”, Fabrice Becker from Cirque du Soleil Creation, Ludovic Martin from Mystère, Kana Kitao-Spendlove from “O”, Grégoire Pennes Michael Jackson ONE, Christina Jones from “O”, Jean Damien Climonet from Consultant Sport Xtreme, Grant Golding from KÀ, Shona Morgan from Amaluna, Marissa King from Amaluna, and Yvonne Tousek-Renne from Amaluna for participating (http://goo.gl/xTDwA3).

Well, that’s all I have for this month. Let’s get to the rest!

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