Made my Cirque Du Soleil debut last night

[lugnut33]

Last night my family and I went and saw Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam in Rockford, IL. Quidam is a traveling Cirque show. Our seats were in the second row center stage.

Quidam has many elements similar to the La Noube show at WDW, but the story line is different and they have those European clown/mimes that get people to do funny things. The same type of things that John and Kevin have seen happen while on their vacations in Europe. Of course I was terrified I'd end up getting picked.

Guess who got picked? Yuuuup, I was brought up on stage to play the big director in the filming of a jilted love scene. He had already picked 3 people and figured I was safe, until he turned to the audience, grabbed his belly, and was looking for a fat guy. Yuuuup, that's me.

Lucky for me, they didn't make us do half the things that John and Kevin described in their travels. And it was really funny, I was laughing uncontrollably up on stage. The clown/mime got me to scratch my groin in front of everybody, and then play it off like I was just supposed to be scratching my belly.

Somehow, I seem to always get picked for these things. It's OK though, I was commenting at the intermission that I thought it would be cool to work as a Cirque clown, and lo and behold I got my wish.

 

[jcb]

We saw Quidam when it was here. My wife bought us floor seats. I would have given her serious grief had I been one of the poor souls who was "selected" to go up on stage. I'm glad you had a good time.

Having seen both audience participation experiences, there was a world of difference between Cirque and the Italian minstrel group.

The difference, to me, is between a D.H. Lawrence poem and a certain very graphic limerick about a Man from a Massachusetts Island.

 

[GoofyforDisney3]

I loved this show. Actually liked it better than la Nouba. Although I was sort of surprised at some of the symbolisms. My DD loved it to and all of those symbolisms went right over her head. LOL

 

[TIGGERmetoo]

lugnut - Glad you had a good time. Have you seen any of the Cirque shows in Las Vegas? I'm curious how those compare to Quidam.

 

[sayhello]

I love Quidam. It's the first Cirque show I ever saw, 16 years ago (wow! How could it have been that long?) I had no idea what Cirque was when my cousin took me, but I fell in love! It's a great show! I've seen 4 different Cirque shows so far, and I love them all!

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[lttlmc3]

Just putting in my two cents....my best friend Ben is the tour manager for Cirque's Allegra show touring in different countries. He was with Zarkana for six months for its first NY run and when it was out of the country. Weird, weird stories he comes back with!

 

[sayhello]

Just putting in my two cents....my best friend Ben is the tour manager for Cirque's Allegra show touring in different countries. He was with Zarkana for six months for its first NY run and when it was out of the country. Weird, weird stories he comes back with!

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