Mike Weatherford of the Las Vegas Review-Journal had an interesting tid-bit yesterday regarding our favorite circus:
- On Monday, Cirque du Soleil surprised a Missouri couple attending “Mystere” with a return-trip prize package for being the company’s 30 millionth Las Vegas customer. Those kind of promotions aren’t unusual — you always wonder how they pin it down to which exact patron — but the numbers do give pause.
They remind you of how much Cirque came to dominate Las Vegas entertainment, selling 30 million tickets since “Mystere” opened on Christmas Day of 1993. The company now has 101,950 tickets up for sale on the Strip each week; 10 performances of six titles.
Cirque isn’t saying how many more seats will be for sale when its Elvis show opens by year’s end at CityCenter. But it’s unlikely to be less than the smallest capacity room, “Zumanity” at 1,261 seats, so the weekly total will go to more than 114,000 seats.
Congrats!
{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal }
