From the Toronto Star:
Cirque du Soleil, in cooperation with Mirvish Productions, is bringing its latest production, Banana Shpeel, to Toronto at the Canon Theatre from Sept. 14 through Oct. 10, the Star has learned.
Banana Shpeel is, quite frankly, an exercise in vaudeville. Baggy pants comedy, raucous slapstick, the whole nine yards. It’s something we don’t see much of lately, least of all from Cirque, but it’s done with the group’s usual panache.
My sources inside Cirque also tell me that “a fair bit of tweaking” has occurred since the New York premiere, so what we get here in Toronto will not be identical to what failed to knock Gotham on its ear.
Read the original article here.
{ SOURCE: Toronto Star }
