Cirque du Soleil

[oakenguy]

Quidam, Quidam, Quidam, Quidam. Ohmigod, it rocked so much.

'Allegria' left me feeling a little cold and dubious--there were bits that seemed like oddness for the sake of oddness. This, though, this felt...how to say...it was Grounded in something, so that even though you couldn't really understand what was going on, you knew that on some surreal level, it made sense. It was like Dr. Seuss on absinthe. It was like having Dali telling you a bedtime story.

Damn. I want to do things, create things like that. I'd almost kicked my addiction to Spectacle, and now here I am again making plans for flash paper and neon tubing.

Comments

[jeeell.livejournal.com]

Where did you see Cirque du Soleil?? I almost bought tickets from work to see it in Canada... but I passed.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

It's in Boston for, um, a few more weeks. I forget exactly, I saw it on Friday so I don't /need/ to remember.

(And Oaken, my God, yes. It spoke to me even when I had no idea what it was saying.)

www.cirquedusoleil.com, if you want to see if there's still tickets.)

Seats?

[jeeell.livejournal.com]

Based on the seating chart (http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuSoleil/en/tickets/touring/quidam/boston.htm), is there any bad place to sit? Did you wish you could have been sitting somewhere else??

Re: Seats?

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

We had seats right up front, but on the sides. They /occasionally/ focused their expressions/acting toward the traditional 'front' of the stage, despite the fact it was, in the practical sense, a theater in the round, but it was so occasional it didn't annoy me at all. (And there were several moments where they focused on the sides, too.) So, basically, no, in /my/ opinion, there's no bad seats.

Re: Seats?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

We sat in the very back row, to the side of the stage (it was one of the only spots left for a block of five people). There were a couple of moments where support beams blocked a little bit of the action....but only a few, and they always have *other* things to look at. (I love that about them).

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, the *really* fun thing to do now is to go to the Cirque website and look at their section on Quidam, especially the comments about the main characters. Woo, I was SO far off-base with some of my interpretations! (Like, who knew one of the characters was undead??!?)

I'm really glad I didn't do it before I saw the show, though. Playing 'what the hell WAS that?' is half the fun. :)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Wurrr?

I'll try it later at home, but right now, the Cirque website isn't giving me any comments about the main characters...