My weekend in reverse (1 of 3)
Sep. 15th, 2008 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyYesterday Deb surprised me with a slightly-early birthday present, two tickets to Kooza! We braved the rain and wind and Red Sox traffic and broken subways and bizarre concession stands (I'm not talking overpriced popcorn here, I'm talking "Smoothie--$7.62", a number that's still crystal-clear in my head because I'm just so baffled by how they came up with that amount) and made it to the show, and wow.
Wow.
I don't want to spoil things for folks who haven't seen it yet, so I'll say that it's a very good blend of things that made me go "What the HELL?", two moments that were so awesome the hair on the back of my neck literally stood up, and three or four separate times when there were things done to the audience that I can't ever imagine, say, Ringling doing, both for liability insurance reasons and sheer wtf-ery. (Very realistic dog costume. VERY realistic dog costume.)
I'll also mention that of the 5 Cirque shows I've seen, this had _the_ best group of clowns. They had me from before the show even started, when half of them were planted in the seats portraying obnoxious audience members (!), and they just kept getting better. By the end of the show, I was composing a letter in my head that read "Dear Monsieur Petit Chapeau, I will pay cash money to watch you and your friends walk down the street. Please contact me re: prices and proposed routes."
Also also, any show that leads to sentences like "I'm not sure which I liked more, when they were shooting the cannon into the crowd or the cloak made out of rats" is a GOOD show.
Wow.
I don't want to spoil things for folks who haven't seen it yet, so I'll say that it's a very good blend of things that made me go "What the HELL?", two moments that were so awesome the hair on the back of my neck literally stood up, and three or four separate times when there were things done to the audience that I can't ever imagine, say, Ringling doing, both for liability insurance reasons and sheer wtf-ery. (Very realistic dog costume. VERY realistic dog costume.)
I'll also mention that of the 5 Cirque shows I've seen, this had _the_ best group of clowns. They had me from before the show even started, when half of them were planted in the seats portraying obnoxious audience members (!), and they just kept getting better. By the end of the show, I was composing a letter in my head that read "Dear Monsieur Petit Chapeau, I will pay cash money to watch you and your friends walk down the street. Please contact me re: prices and proposed routes."
Also also, any show that leads to sentences like "I'm not sure which I liked more, when they were shooting the cannon into the crowd or the cloak made out of rats" is a GOOD show.
