The LA Times caught up recently with Gilles Ste-Croix, Cirque du Soleil’s SVP of Creative Content and Stéphane Mongeau, Executive Producer of “Viva ELVIS” who confirmed that Cirque Hollywood is on track to launch the new show sometime after the annual Oscars show in 2011.
- “It’s coming along,” Ste-Croix said in Québecois-accented English. “Right now, they will transform the theater because it’s a theater for the Oscar, but we want to have the possibility of [installing a] lift and all that, to have scenery change, new rigging points and all that. So they have to transform the theater.”
Ste-Croix suggested that Cirque also will reconfigure the seating arrangement of the vast Kodak space to make it feel a bit more intimate. Although Cirque’s new Hollywood production will be performed year-round, for something on the order of 368 shows annually, it probably won’t be able to fill a 3,400-seat house for that many performances. After all, as tourist meccas go, Hollywood isn’t quite on the order of Las Vegas.
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{ SOURCE: LA Times }
