#26
Posted: 8/19/15 at 10:14am
Being able to see a Cirque show without going to Vegas?
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Cirque du Soleil: Paramour coming to Broadway's Lyric Theatre — Page 2
#27
Posted: 8/19/15 at 10:15am
^^ Never heard of Randalls Island.
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#28
Posted: 8/19/15 at 10:17am
Cirque has been performing widely outside of Vegas for years. I didn't know the rock you were living under was that heavy.
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#29
Posted: 8/19/15 at 12:01pm
I used to really love Cirque du Soleil but the quality of their work has diminished greatly in the past few years. I can't think of anything worthwhile that's come from them since The Beatles' Love and that was out in 2006.
Maybe I'm forgetting something they've done since that has fared well? I haven't seen Zed and I heard that was more of a return to form.
#30
Posted: 8/19/15 at 12:26pm
Corteo is one of my favorites and I heard raves about Ovo.
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#31
Posted: 8/19/15 at 1:21pm
Corteo came out before Love. I also like that one. Great staging!
You're the first person I've heard say something good about Ovo. I heard it was pretty bad.
#32
Posted: 8/19/15 at 1:28pm
Interesting fact. The new Cirque show is going to be under AGVA contract not AEA meaning they can make the cast do 2-3 shows a day like Radio City. Broadway is slowly transforming into Vegas.
Updated On: 8/19/15 at 01:28 PM
#33
Posted: 8/19/15 at 1:47pm
Broadway is slowly transforming into Vegas.
No, Broadway is just being Broadway. A national hub for entertainment for over a century.
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#34
Posted: 8/19/15 at 1:59pm
They should just throw a big tent over 42nd st and call it Disney-Cirque-Dave&Buster-Ripley's-Mademe Tussaud-Applebbes Land
Updated On: 8/19/15 at 01:59 PM
#35
Posted: 8/19/15 at 2:01pm
I would much rather see something else go in that theater. I like Cirque a lot. Have seen a number of their shows and have even worked for them. I like them better in Vegas or seeing a tent show. I love their touring tent shows. I also feel that their shows started to become a bit repetitive as far as acts go. JMO
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#36
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Posted: 8/19/15 at 2:06pm
wssinsider, Paramour is actually sticking very close to a typical 8-show week schedule. They'll be doing two shows a day on Saturday and Sunday, and dark on Tuesdays.
theatregoer3, Michael Jackson ONE opened a couple of years ago some of the best reviews they've gotten in recent memory. It's a great show and easily the best of "Cirque 2.0" batch.
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#37
Posted: 8/19/15 at 2:37pm
The description sounds extremely similar to IRIS which resided in Los Angeles at the Dolby (the then Kodak) Theatre a few years ago. It sounds like the same concept, except this one will contain a good bit of musical theatre while the other was cinematic (Danny Elfman did the music). Either way, at the time IRIS was the best show in years from them. So if it's anything similar to that I will be pleased! They should have just transferred it to New York anyway instead of closing it.
If anyone is interested in seeing it, the whole show is uploaded on YouTube.
Updated On: 8/19/15 at 02:37 PM
#38
Posted: 8/19/15 at 2:48pm
Will anything be booked for the months in between?
#39
Posted: 8/19/15 at 2:54pm
Wow, some people seem really irritated by this. I think it's a great idea since so few things can survive in the Lyric. And as others have said, it's not like this is the first show that wasn't a play or musical to be on Broadway.
I only have one experience with Cirque du Soleil. I saw Amaluna in San Francisco a couple years ago. The show, which was based on The Tempest, was directed by the great Dianne Paulus herself, and was incredibly beautiful.
Updated On: 8/19/15 at 02:54 PM
#40
Posted: 8/19/15 at 3:04pm
wssinsider said: "Interesting fact. The new Cirque show is going to be under AGVA contract not AEA meaning they can make the cast do 2-3 shows a day like Radio City. Broadway is slowly transforming into Vegas."
Is it confirmed that they will be under an AGVA contract? Cirque has been notoriously anti-union in regards to their performers (none of their resident shows, in Vegas or elsewhere, or their touring shows are under an AGVA contract.
#41
Posted: 8/19/15 at 4:19pm
Sounds identical to IRIS, but whatever. Sounds fun!
#42
Posted: 8/19/15 at 4:40pm
Cirque, from my experience, is not what I'd call "performer friendly." Lots of issues with injury, injury recovery, and where injured performers fall contractually.
I assumed this would be non-Union as most Cirque shows are. This made me think about something that perhaps someone can answer. In a show like The Illusionists, for example, are the magician's assistants AGVA performers or just salaried non-Union.
#43
Posted: 8/19/15 at 4:48pm
Yes it is confirmed as a AGVA contract. Auditions started this week. Telsey is casting. 2016 CIRQUE PROJECT CONTRACT: AGVA
Staging Director: West Hyler
Choreographer: Daphne Mauger
Casting: Telsey + Company
Auditions: Late August in NYC
Rehearsals: January 2016
Previews: April 2016
Opening: June 2016
Updated On: 8/19/15 at 04:48 PM
#44
Posted: 8/19/15 at 5:14pm
The creative team is basically the one from IRIS. Good then. It should be great!
#45
Posted: 8/19/15 at 6:44pm
Hopefully this show fares better than IRIS. $100M outlay for what was suppose to be a ten-year run. It only lasted a little over a year.....had a friend who saw it with only 85 other people in the 3,400 seat Kodak
#46
Posted: 8/19/15 at 8:11pm
"Broadway musicals tend to struggle to fill that house anyway. Might as well just make it a special event venue."
Guess I can't argue with that... but it would be kind of depressing to have a Circus act own a Broadway theatre as suggested... but if they had a hit like "O" or "KA" it could run for years...
#47
Posted: 8/19/15 at 9:15pm
And to be clear the Quebec Government also owns it.
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#48
Posted: 8/19/15 at 10:50pm
they will probably have several different casts then if they are doing 2 or 3 shows a day. I wonder if they will transform the theatre!
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#49
Posted: 8/20/15 at 2:09pm
I am confused as to why they named it Paramour considering the word means: a lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person.
#50
Posted: 8/20/15 at 6:11pm
I am so excited! I was wondering if once the Wiz comes to Broadway, Paramour will leave.
