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| - What? Just? Happened?
Seriously.. what happened. It's been a long time since I've felt pretty much every single emotion there was and is to feel in an hour and a half.
Throughout the years, I never cared to pay attention to what this idea was behind the whole 'Cirque du Soleil' extravaganza.. I never realized what it actually was and wasn't interested in knowing but holy man cannoli moly.. I have been changed.
So I suppose I should tell you what happened? Yes. The group I went with to Vegas decided to check out one of the shows, this Mystere was the one with available tickets so we got them online pre-trip. Fine. FYI there is a check-in offer.. two tickets for $100; we saw that when we checked-in. Now, granted you must forgo the pre-ordering tickets and chance that there will be some there (and there were.. but we didn't know). The tickets came out to be about $70 each for us with fees, since the ring-leader of the group brought up the fact of the Yelp check in, we ended up with a big up-grade on our seats. Score.
So we sat pretty much dead center.. OH let me tell you about walking in. Okay, so you go in they scan the ticket and you walk up the find the seat. I did not venture to the restrooms but there was a snack stand in the lobby. The theater itself is not that large which I at first thought was strange for such a widely in demand show, however it later proved to me that it made perfect sense. It may have held 300 people? Not sure..
So we grabbed our seats, smack in the middle almost.. nice! We had original tickets for the right side of the stage towards the top, we ended up 5-6 rows from the stage. Incredible. As we were seated, others were coming in and they had a guy walking around involving the audience.. he would pretend to be an usher (he had a spot light on him) and the people would almost have no choice but to follow him and he'd take them all up and around and kick people out of their seats for them and so forth. It was pretty funny to watch, he threw pop-corn at people and acted as if he spilled it, I mean, I'm just smiling thinking about this insanity that happened during the entirety of me being in that theater.
ANYWAYS I really don't want to give it away.. it started and honestly the emotions I felt were so powerful.. shock and awe, happiness, sadness, anxiousness, regretful that I hadn't given a thought to the performance in the past.. my body hurt watching what these people do.
The babies, involving the audience, the two guys holding one another.. the people with the face on them, pole-craziness.. bars and trapeze like, whoa I don't even know what to say..
They are true artists and it is completely unbelievable what I witnessed during this performance. I want to tell them thank you, for doing what they do. None of them will read this and there are practically 500 reviews, but seriously.. you all did such an outstanding job and to do it over and over for the audience that watches you.. THANK YOU.
To the masterminds behind creating this.. wow. Incredible concept.. stage design.. lighting.. props.. musical talent.. fantastic job everybody. I'm so honored to have been able to see what I saw.
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