Wading past the usual juvenalia...
I also dont understand why they didnt bring in folks like Laliberte and his team to handle the flying on this. As you note, Cirque has been doing this for decades without an accident, and I was always under the impression that, when you have a problem, if you cant solve it yourself, you hire a professional... especially when it involves the safety of not only your actors but the thousand or so people sitting under them at the time.
But seeing the photos on the front page here and watching the videos online and hearing the songs, what strikes me more than the flying is just how completely inept it all appears. Some of the scenery looks fantastic, but, as is true with almost anything Tsypin designs, there are also big time WTF moments. The costumes and masks are... well, to be blunt, borderline silly at times. As for the music? I'm a casual U2 fan, but this is just one seriously lame score.
Yes, I know I'm judging based on snippets. But these are the snippets the production company is putting out there to promote this thing. If this is the best it has to offer, how ridiculous and absurd can the rest of it be?
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