Travis Michael Holder of Entertinament Today has taken a different tact with regards to BELIEVE, and you can find his piece online at www.entertinmenttoday.net. From the article:
- For anyone in the business of reviewing theatrical productions—or for anyone attempting to critique anything as illusive and subjective as the creation of any artform—the most important thing is to maintain a perpetual sense of wonder for this miraculous evolution of the decidedly intangible. The ability to enter every situation with a blank slate is the key, but since most of us crusty old critics spend several nights a week dissecting everything we see in print for public consumption, it’s easy to get a tad jaded and lose that initial sense of amazement, to somehow gradually compromise our original hushed respect for the creative process.
Keeping this in mind, the reviews of Cirque du Soleil’s sixth and newest permanent Las Vegas extravaganza, Criss Angel’s Believe, which opened Halloween night at the sadly un-Egyptifying Luxor Hotel, have been decidedly mixed. For me, the problem is that most critics have forgotten to wipe away all those nasty expectations and have failed to keep that slate clear as though they’ve never seen a Cirque du Soleil production performed before.
Read the full review here.
{ SOURCE: Entertainment Today }
