According to Taylor Jeffs at Umbridge.com, Cirque du Soleil’s first permanent production — Mystère — will be filmed this June for a December 2005 DVD/TV release!
This is exciting yet confusing news since in the past, Cirque du Soleil has maintained a credo that as long as their shows were still performing live we would never see them on VHS/DVD. This promise, of course, was broken when Quidam was filmed in Amsterdam in 1999 and a modified version of the stance to only include permanent productions was broken when La Nouba was
filmed and released.
So why Mystère?
Taylor Jeffs has an assumption that the show’s attendance is down and that “someone somewhere is hoping to give the show a boost.” So let’s keep our fingers crossed! The show hasn’t been filmed yet and anything can happen between now and then. Stay tuned!
[Source: Umbridge.com; Ricky Russo]
