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Issue #112: MAY 2013 – Released!
05 May 2013 12:20 PM | No Comments
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Interviews
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Mark Ward – Performer
“A Career Backwards”
09 June 2011 8:47 AM | No Comments -
Benoit Jutras – Composer
“Making Time Stop”
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Erich Van Tourneau – Musical Director
“Takin’ Care of Business”
16 March 2011 8:21 AM | No Comments -
Bob & Bill – Album Producers
“Believing & Dreaming”
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Jerry Nadal – SVP Resident Shows
“Keeping the Value”
10 November 2010 11:07 AM | No Comments -
Daniel Lamarre – President & COO
“Joining the Circus”
14 June 2010 7:46 AM | No Comments -
Ferguson & Allaire – Album Producers
“Making Unexpected Magic Timeless”
05 January 2010 10:05 AM | No Comments
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Latest Headlines
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Dralion Returns to Montréal
From the Montreal Gazette: The Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion is coming home for Christmas, reinvented as an arena mega-spectacle that will open at the Bell Centre on Dec. 18. This most Asian of all Cirque shows has come a long way since it made its rather shaky debut as a big top show in Montreal [...] -
CirqueWeek in Las Vegas to Continue
At the end of this fantastic peek into CirqueWeek 2011 by Sonya Padgett of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is an interesting quip about CirqueWeek attendance: While Cirque wouldn’t give an attendance figure, D’Angeli said it did surpass last year’s numbers. They plan to continue offering Cirque Week. So, rejoice fans, looks like CirqueWeek 2012 is [...] -
MJ Immortal #1 in Box Office Gross This Week
The Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week’s ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. Cirque du Soleil [...] -
Mystère Getting a Makeover
As previously rumored, Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère will be receiving a couple of gifts from ZED, set to close New Years Eve in Tokyo: Two “Zed” acts then will be incorporated into “Mystere,” giving Cirque’s oldest Las Vegas show its biggest changes since it opened at Treasure Island on Christmas Day of 1993. Cirque already [...] -
Cirque with Madonna for Superbowl Half-time show
This according to the Montreal Gazette: The Cirque du Soleil’s upcoming collaboration with Madonna for her first Super Bowl half-time show promises an exciting convergence of talents. Nobody will want to miss this event. Not Madonna fans, or Cirque fans or the usual sports fans, and TV ad junkies (only the very best commercials make [...] -
MJ Reviews from LV Coming In: “It’s BAD”
From the LA Times: If the new Cirque du Soleil tribute to Michael Jackson, “Immortal,” confirms one thing, it’s that the King of Pop’s presence, even in death, sure can rile up a crowd. Every time the late singer’s image popped on-screen during the show’s Las Vegas premiere on Saturday night, whether as a tyke [...] -
A Cirque du Soleil… Car?
Now here’s something interesting… The bidder is anonymous, but here’s betting you’ll be able to identify him or her behind the wheel of this theatrical-looking drive. The Infiniti G37 Art Car, created to commemorate both the car company’s 20th anniversary and Cirque du Soleil’s 25th, drew a winning bid of $55,000 at a private auction [...] -
More on VIVA ELVIS’ Closing
Canada’s Globe and Mail has a couple of interesting passages regarding Viva Elvis’ closure, slated to occur at the end of 2012: Viva Elvis’s lack of successis relative, though. Since the show began in December, 2009, it has been seen by one million people over nearly 900 performances. However, Cirque’s dominance in Las Vegas is [...] -
Daniel Lamarre: Let’s make Montreal a capital of creativity
MONTREAL – At this very moment, my colleagues on Mystère, O, Zumanity, KÀ, The Beatles LOVE, Criss Angel Believe and Viva Elvis in Las Vegas, and my colleagues on Iris, in Los Angeles are just starting their day. The cast and crew of Quidam in Pittsburgh, La Nouba in Orlando, Fla., Dralion in Puerto Rico, [...] -
MJ Immortal sells only 40,000?
According to Showbiz411.com, Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL album has sold only 40,000 units in its first week… After all the hoopla about Michael Jackson’s Cirque du Soleil show, you;d think the CD soundtrack would have sold better in its first week. But “Immortal,” an album of remixes taken from the Cirque show, sold just around [...] -
Internal Cirque Memo Announcing Viva Elvis’ Closing
While the artistic merit of Viva ELVIS is exceptional and has touched close to one million guests with nearly 900 shows since opening in December 2009, we have been notified by our partners at CityCenter of their likely intention to ask Cirque to replace the show at the end of 2012. All of us at [...] -
MJ Immortal Rolling In…
From the Las Vegas Sun: With preplanned military precision, a fearsome fleet of more than 45 semis, buses and vehicles for the 220-strong cast, crew, equipment, instruments, scenery and theatrical-rigging equipment of Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” spectacular will roll onto the Strip early this week. It will take some 14 [...] -
MGM Resorts asks Cirque to replace Viva Elvis at Aria
Shocking news from the Las Vegas Sun regarding the fate of Cirque du Soleil’s VIVA ELVIS production, staged at ARIA, MGM Resorts’ huge CityCenter project. MGM Resorts has asked Cirque du Soleil to replace its show “Viva Elvis” at the Aria by the end of 2012, citing poor ticket sales. The move is the first [...] -
ZAIA Continues to Run at a Loss
According to the Macau Daily Times, Sands Gaming China is willing to shoulder ZAIA’s operating losses… Despite higher box office sales Cirque du Soleil show ‘Zaia’ is still recording losses, Sands China president Edward Tracy revealed yesterday. But the executive assured that the gaming operator is willing to continue to shoulder the burden. ‘Zaia’ opened [...] -
Meet Adrienn Banhegy, Quidam Skipper
From Glittarazzi.com: Meet Adrienn Banhegyi. She’s not your average performer. This Hungarian-born jump roper has skipped rope for almost half her life. She first got into the sport through her father — who always strengthened the importance of physical fitness. She’s won three world championships and five European championships during her time with the National [...]