According to Mike Weatherford of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, more changes are on the way for Cirque du Soleil’s fourth Las Vegas Strip production: KÀ, at MGM Grand:
As the biggest show on the Strip notched its seventh anniversary in November, Cirque du Soleil’s epic continues to undergo tweaks and changes to keep it fresh. […] “Ka” was Cirque’s grand opera (without the singing), and it hired Robert Lepage, a director skilled in opera, to pull it off. (Of late he’s been restaging Wagner’s “Ring” cycle for the Metropolitan Opera).
The three Las Vegas Cirques that followed (“Love,” “Believe” and “Viva Elvis”) focused more on specific themes than spectacle, leaving “Ka” unchallenged in the sheer grandeur of sinking ships, flying machines and the giant Wheel of Death. But it’s not based on familiar source material, so the separate adventures of a twin brother and sister, separated by an early attack on their people, could be difficult to follow from distant rows. In late 2007, an aerial adagio between the sister and a Tarzan-like character, officially known as Firefly Boy, replaced some acrobatics that took place on the ground, adding love interest to the story. […]
After “Ka” takes a vacation in the second half of January, creators will begin reworking other sequences, such as the battle on a ship tossed at sea. It’s part of a larger marketing effort to distinguish each Cirque title from the other, and to position “Ka” as “this epic adventure,” Novich notes. “That seems like something people have this base interest in. To see something like that onstage is an incredible feat.”
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{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal }
