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| - This was my second Cirque show and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. My husband and I had seen Mystere with our families a few days before our wedding in Vegas and we weren't too impressed. I felt bad because I was the one who set up the whole fam going. Mystere was just a series of vignettes that were silly and sometimes cool, but didn't add up to much.
Ka, on the other hand, has a loose plot which, while not much as far as plots go, was great at keeping the flow of the show going. The vaguely-Asian themed show fit music with plot and acts together really well. There were the usual overly-theatrical moments and some stock characters, but I didn't find it to be over-the-top as much as Mystere was. Yes, you need to suspend your disbelief for some of it, but the costumes were amazing--the stunts are amazing and it feels like you are in a different place.
We paid about $70 per ticket and had decent seats about halfway up on the edge of the center section. I think most of the seats were good in the theater.
I was also impressed with the fact that the slowest moments were in the beginning. Once it got going, I wasn't bored. It didn't seem like a 90 minute show.
If you want to see a show while you're in Vegas and you don't want to feel ripped off, I recommend Ka. If you stay at the MGM, they offer a discounted show rate which I thought was a really good value.
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