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 | 	- Let me just get this out of the way: I fuckin' HATE Cirque du Soleil. I find their played-out shtick to be overly whimsical and pretentious, and how many times can you watch an aerialist twirling around on a silk rope before you start to yawn??? All those amazing acrobatics become mind-numbingly boring after the 100th time you've seen them...which is a shame, because it really is amazing stuff. It's just SOOOO PLAYED OUT!
Having said that, I totally dig Zumanity! It's supposed to be the "sexxxy" side of Cirque...but I prefer to just pretend it isn't a Cirque show at all. Easier to enjoy that way, ya know?!  And besides, you wouldn't even really know it was a Cirque show anyway -- no weird feathered birdlike creatures, no stupid World-Fusion-Opera music, no retarded conceptual storylines about Life and Love.
It's mostly just mildly titillating numbers about sex, in all its forms. Gay, straight, kinky, solo...they cover it all. It's all pretty tongue-in-cheek, and very over-the-top, but I still found it amusing and interesting. The costumes are totally bad-ass, and there is some amazing dancing and prancing to watch. Plus there are quite a few parts that are genuinely funny. (SEE?? I **TOLD** you it wasn't like the other Cirque shows!!)
It's not really dirty. If you're offended or made uncomfortable by this lightweight shit, you need to loosen up & get a LIFE!
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