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| - Came here for the 7pm showing on Sunday. This is my 6th cirque show. Prices were good; I called to get discount pricing on Saturday and there were no other options (other than military, student, and AAA discounts, which weren't much). I'm used to paying locals price because I used to have a friend that loved here and we got our tickets at 2 for 1 pricing. Since then, I've refused to pay more than $100 for tickets because I know they come cheaper. Total came out to around $65, inclusive of taxes.
They say to come an hour early to pick up tickets from will call. Unlike all of the cirque shows I've seen, the line was so short at the booth and there was no line to get in the theater. Overall, the theater was maybe less than half full. Also, it's a small-ish theater. We had category E tickets and were only sitting 4th row up from the middle of the theater. Even the back row didn't look awfully far.
To be honest, Ka has one of the most impressive theaters that I've seen. They made really good use of the spaces on the walls by adorning them with lights and cool little balconies. A lot of the acrobats also used them in their scenes. The seats are all equipped with their own speaker behind your head, so the sound effects and music were pretty amazing though it was hard to hear the actors (even IF they are speaking a different language).
Story line was pretty straightforward, but I was about to fall asleep during many parts of this show. People are right when they're saying there isn't much acrobatics involved. I also felt a lot of the stunts were repeated tricks from some other shows (the giant wheel thing that is also in Zarkana was way more "cling-to-the-edge-of-your-seat" and the aerial dancers were more engaging and varied in their athletics in TOTEM). A lot of the athletics reminded me of high school marching band color guard teams. Baton twirling and stick twirling were a good amount of the tricks they showed.
Though the stage WAS cool, I feel like it was overused in a sense that you could tell they wanted to keep using it and rotating it to keep the show interesting. I got bored of it after a while. The end woke me up (don't want to give a spoiler alert) and it was my favorite part in the show just because the the safety of the actors and patrons in the theater... That definitely kept me on the edge of my seat, ready to evacuate in a timely manner... Haha
3 stars because of the costumes and actors, established story line, neat theater, and good sound. Minus two for the lackluster acrobatics, quiet dialogue, and repetitive rotating stage use.
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