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| - O - my god. This remains to be my favorite Cirque show of all time. I truly think that if you have either never seen an Cirque de Soleil, or have seen others in the past, you need to go on to virgin airlines website next time they do a cheap airfare deal and get your ass into Vegas. Make sure you book your tickets, as despite show has been running in Vegas since 1998 it remains a hot ticket item, that habitually sells out. Like many things in Vegas, the ticket prices are a little bit inflated, gone are the days that the Vegas hotels sells food and entertainment at a loss to get people to come and spend their money on the casino floor.
Or do they?
I was doing more research on O and found some interesting things about the show.
- The costumes have a lifespan of 20 shows, with multiple costumes per performer costing about $10,000 to produce.
- In order for the platform stage to rise and fall without a wake, the surface of the stage has thousands of tiny holes.
- There is an invisible wall between the pool and the audience generated by air jets; the goal is to maintain two temperature zones in the theatre. The stage is kept at a higher temperature while the audience area is kept at a lower temperature. A temperature sensor every few seats in the theatre helps ensure the audience area is maintained at the correct temperature.
- To minimize damage to the musical instruments, the musicians and their instruments play from glass enclosures in the theater. Some of the musical instruments used in the show are more than 100 years old. The unique string instrument heard in the soundtrack of O is an erhu, a traditional Chinese bowed string instrument.
- The show has a cast of 85 acrobats, synchronized swimmers, and divers performing in and above a 1.5 million-gallon pool. The pool is kept at 88 degrees Fahrenheit and has an underwater communication system and regulators that allow performers to breathe underwater.
They do spend quite a bit of money on this production, and like I said earlier, if you have never seen this show you have to watch it. You have this amazing flawless mix of the moving music preformed by the orchestra and very intricately they are able to tie in some very complex synchronized acts with it. They spared no expense on the performers, costumes, music, set design and the show itself makes the spectators feel as though they are watching something very special. And they are.
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