Cirque du Soleil’s latest offering on the Las Vegas Strip – CRISS ANGEL Believe – had its first public performances on Friday, September 26th; what has the response been? Unfortunately everything from “horrible”, “terrible” to complete “bull****.”
A number of articles have crept up discussing the reaction to Friday’s premiere, which you can find below:
And the Coup de Grâce: DOUG ELFMAN’s article from the Las Vegas Review Journal
- Criss Angel fans flew in from as far away as London to see his new Cirque du Soleil show open at the Luxor on Friday. The verdict by many? Creatively, “Believe” is a possibly unsalvageable “waste of time” and a “dead end” that literally bored some audience members to sleep. On Saturday night, reaction was even worse. “Everyone in the bathroom was chanting ‘bull—-‘” from the urinals, Damon Ranger of Chicago told me Saturday. “It was absolutely awful. You can ‘Believe’ how bad it is — because it’s terrible!” People streamed out of the theater on Saturday screaming about how poor it was. A group of six women was led by a woman yelling furiously, demanding their money back. “Dude, it’s a train wreck,” Ranger said. On a scale of 1 to 10, he declared “Believe” a zero.
We can only hope the reviews get better…
