Not that I need an extra reason to like Cirque du Soleil… I like pretty much everything about it – the music, the skill, the COSTUMES, the whole SHOW atmosphere you feel all around when you enter one of their yellow-blue-stripy tents.
I got hooked when Bravo TV channel was showing a reality-show Fire Within about people in one of the Cirques then-new show Varekai. It was so fascinating that I immediately started ordering their other shows on DVD, listening to songs written on realistic-sounding-gibberish and even checked out a few books on them from the local library. When I finally got to see one of their shows (that very same Varekai) live, it was everything I was hoping it would be.
Now, 3 live shows later, and having tickets for a 4th, I got a CD-rom in the mail from them, promoting a new show KOOZA. And guess what? The whole CD cover is doodled! And if you go to the show’s site, you can see all these doodles come to life via animation. Very cool, but that’s exactly what I expected from THE Cirque.