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  • The first thing one should probably know before going (*which we didn't!) Is that Zarkana is a "rock opera." What qualifies as a rock opera you might ask? Well if you're into high pitched SCREAMING mixed with electric guitar you will be pleased with the score for this show. To be fair, there were only two scenes in which the music was TERRIBLE- The snake & spider scenes but those two scenes were enough to make you wonder what crime you have committed for which you are being TORTURED. The other parts had more of a Danny Elfman mystical feel and were a lot more pleasant on the ears. The show opens with a spectacular female jugular which was probably our favorite act. After that there is a pretty awesome stacked ladder scene in which a pair try to rescue a little girl trapped on a broken stage prop... to no avail. The little girl ends up getting pickled in a giant perfume bottle. There is a tightrope scene. Human trampoline. A pretty cool "fortune teller" does sand art which is projected onto a large screen for all to watch her predict... the spider scene. The main thing about this show is it's hard to follow. At the beginning there seems to be some sort of vague storyline involving a magician. It then devolves into a bunch of random disconnected circus acts. I wanted to like this show but since they are speaking some sort of gibberish mixed with the HORRIBLE opera singing (not a foreign language- an entirely made up language) It makes the entire thing nonsensical and confusing. The snake scene is supposed to be suspenseful (I think) so the music is intense, but NOT in a good way.... More of a nails of chalkboard sort of way with a woman SCREECHING at the top of her lungs. I can't even remember what is going on during that scene performance wise because I think I have mild PTSD over it. It might have been a guy performing on silks. I've blocked it out. A word on the clowns: I don't normally care for clowns (I hated that huge baby that was supposed to be funny in Mystere and think he ruined the show) Yet I realize they need something to fill the time in between acts so they can set up the next scene and I actually enjoyed these clowns more than I thought I would. It's totally juvenile humor and they make use of a "fart" sound effect quite a few times but somehow I still found them cute. Their white costumes are pretty neat but most of the actual performers wear the usual spandex type of leotards and it seems that the performers with the more spectacular costumes are just there as "filler" characters. I remember seeing a cannon on stage and one clown being sent drifting over the audience suspended by a weird LED lit metal contraption but if that was the cannon scene; I don't get why people are saying it was good? It was just the shorter clown acting silly with some pasties (red nipple tassels- not that I'm against nipple tassels. ) There is a trapeze scene and a stacking human act. There was a cyr wheel act (pictured on many advertisements and billboards) in which performers wearing interesting blue and green bubble costumes somehow balance inside and spin individually (imagine balancing inside a huge hula hoop with no handles) I kept wondering how they were holding on without smashing their fingers. Toward the end there was an act involving a man in a cut off shirt which we haven't decided if he was a contortionist or a break dancer? It was impossible to see since there was a BLINDING spotlight illuminating him from behind but pointed DIRECTLY at the far left side of the audience where we were seated so it made it completely worthless unless you watched his shadow on the side wall of the theater. We live in Vegas and have been to nearly all of the shows but I really felt compelled to write a review about this one warning that it might not be quite up to par if you're used to Cirque productions. It's really just normal circus acrobats and a few cool costumes. It's on the same level as Zumanity- more of a variety show/cheap production with the "Cirque du Soleil" brand slapped on to try to lend credibility. Overall, we didn't hate it. It wasn't as bad as Viva Elvis yet it was really just not that good! One last annoying thing I'd like to mention is, we were seated to the furthest left of the theater (near an emergency exit) and the ushers kept walking around and talking to each other and it was incredibly distracting. I get that they need to keep the exits illuminated but does the usher really need to stand under the light and move around in our periphery vision? I notice other reviewers mention the wheel of death- which has either been removed or they forgot to include it last night. Anyway, I really would rather give compliments and feel bad for the performers who may read this because they are just doing their jobs.... but they weren't given much to work with here. In my opinion- go see KA- a way better representation of a Cirque show!
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