Showing posts with label Cirque du Soleil vs Cirque La Clique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cirque du Soleil vs Cirque La Clique. Show all posts

Friday, July 13, 2007

Acrobats, Knife-Swallowers and Strippers, oh my!

Take one part, Burlesque, one part Vaudeville, one part Circus, one part Freak-Show, shake and stir and you get ...
This ain't your parent circus... (unless they were slightly sexually deviant and into freakshows and fringe society.)

Do yourselves a favor, and if you get the chance, go see them!

OH MY GOD! What a night!

It started with a Cabaret singer Michelangelo. The lyrics to his song were sexually explicit. We were off to a good start and the audience was soon well aware this was going to be a fun night. After his song the next act was a male duo of acrobats. Doing impossible poses and lifts including one where the 2nd guy was doing a one handed hand stand on the first guys head! for their encore they both stripped down to their Union Jack undies. WHAT BODS! wow!After them was a hula hoop act. She was amazing! at one point she had 4 hoops all going in different directions on different planes. Amazing!The came one of my favourite parts. Miss Behave...

She's a Sword Swollewer, also does a bit of slap stick and generally teases the audience. she came out 4 times in total, in a skin tight yellow and black latex dress! Among some of her routine, she swallows a pair of scissors, sticks a rose through the piercing hole in her tongue, swallows the leg of a bar stool and generally flirts and drinks too muck! I LOVE HER!

After Miss Behaves first routine, out came Frodo. He is what you can only describe as 100% freak!. He is a contortionist. Completely double jointed. She has a standard size tennis racquet and one with a diameter 2 inches smaller. Ho basically puts his entire body through the racquets. He has to dis-locate his shoulder to do this. Gross and yet riveting You can't HELP but watch...



Among the other acts, was a magic act. A sexy Spanish women basically strips while doing a little 'slight of hand' that involved a little red scarf that ended up in her skirt, bra, thong panty and well, her um... 'suzy' as I prefer to call it. ;-)Also in the show was another acrobat spinning and spiraling above the audience. The Spanish magician comes back and sings Guantanamera, Frodo the double jointed freak also does a balancing act. There's more singing, and audience teasing.
And then the favourite (for at least the four of us) a hunky guy in nothing but a pair of skin tight jeans that does an acrobatic act out of a tub. He spins around and above the audience, the front row is given a sheet of plastic to protect them from the water. The 2nd row gets nothing! Didier got a little drenched from the acts first spin over the audience. I also got splashed more than a few times, but when you see where the water is falling from you just don't mind! HAWT!









...now would you be upset if he got you a little bit... wet?


There was more but really, you gotta go yourself!


I actually want to go back again! It was a truly amazing show. Who wants to join me?

Thursday, July 12, 2007

One good Cirque deserves another.

If you'll recall, for my Birthday (back in March) my Man got tickets for the new Cirque du Soleil show 'Kooza' . The show was on April 25th and I posted a few times about the whole thang (here, here and here.)

Anywho... how can you top such a great birthday gift? Well I don't think you can, but you can come close...

So, tonight I'll be taking Didier out for a mini Birthday Dinner at our Fav Mexican joint, MI BURRITO, and then we're off to the Just For Laughs Festival. We'll try and catch the parade, and then we have tickets to Cirque La Clique. They are apparently incredible, a combination of Circus and Burlesque. Decidedly 'ADULT'. A bit risqué, titillating and naughty. They were at last year's JFL and were a smash hit, and added a couple extra shows at the end of the festival. This year they are showing DAILY for 3 weeks going beyond the start and finish of the actual festival itself.

I'm not sure is we're allowed to take pics, but I'll be taking my camera and a mini tripod (fits in your pocket) and will turn the flash off... so cross your fingers. Either way I'll update y'all demain.

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As well, the 2nd half of Didier's Birthday gift is on Saturday. I'm taking to him to a yet undisclosed restaurant for a swanky meal. ;-)

Stay tuned for more!