Mike Weatherford for the Las Vegas Review Journal recently posed the question “How much Cirque is too much for Vegas?” in a recent article for the paper. Indeed fans and followers of Cirque du Soleil have been asking this very question ever since Zumanity premiered in 2003. Renewed interest comes now due in part on the recent 20% stake that Nakheel and Istithmar World of Dubai purchased on August 6th and the upcoming premiere of Criss Angel BELIEVE at the Luxor. From the article:
- The Dubai money should aid the “acceleration of our development,” Cirque’s president, Daniel Lamarre, noted. […] But each time Cirque opens a show on the Strip, there is a renewed gap between the company’s ambitious plans and the skeptical local reaction. Talk to Cirque, and you hear something like this: “Give me as many venues as you have, and I’ll find the right creators,” Lamarre says. “When I walk into our creative center in Montreal, there are more ideas than there are theaters available to us.” Talk to Las Vegas locals and others in the show community, and you hear something like this: “The Cirque shows are wonderful, but enough already. Isn’t there anything else out there?”
Read the full article here to find out what might be happening with Cirque and Mandalay Bay!
{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Review Journal }
