“Zarkana” returns to Radio City Music Hall this summer with two significant tweaks made to the acrobatic spectacular, keeping with the theme that Cirque du Soleil shows are meant foremost to be an edge-of-your-seat plunge into a fantasy world and a celebration of the light of life.
The revamped version of the high-flying rock opera is sung entirely in “Cirquish,” the imaginary language of Cirque du Soleil (there are no subtitles). After debuting the show in English last year, producers realized that their tale of a magician searching for his lost love is better told in their peculiar patois. “There’s a freedom in an invented language,” said art director Ann-Marie Corbeil. “It lightens the show so much. It brought it much better life and optimism.”
The second change is in timing. The new version is an uninterrupted 90-minute thrill ride, as if a circus from Mars and Tim Burton’s dreams were shaken together in a snow globe. Removing the intermission, said Corbeil, allows audiences to get lost in the story more easily. “You can go into that adventure non-stop, and when it’s done you can say, ‘I was really brought somewhere else,’ ” she said.
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