{"id":141,"date":"2008-07-25T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2008\/07\/cirque-du-soleil-criss-angel-new-tokyo-and-macao-shows-updates\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T04:09:30","slug":"cirque-du-soleil-criss-angel-new-tokyo-and-macao-shows-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/cirque-du-soleil-criss-angel-new-tokyo-and-macao-shows-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque du Soleil ??? Criss Angel, new Tokyo and Macao Shows Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks, here is a quick update for what is going on with Cirque du Soleil.<\/p>\n<p>The new Cirque du Soleil and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/criss-angel-and-cirque-du-soleil-believe\/\">Criss Angel&#8217;s &#8220;Believe&#8221;<\/a> show at Luxor was supposed to open September 1, 2008 for 15 previews through September 11, 2008 followed by a grand opening gala on September 12, 2008, instead, the gala opening <a href=\"http:\/\/thestrippodcast.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/breaking-criss-angel-show-to-open-oct.html\">has been pushed back<\/a> to October and the show gets a &#8220;soft&#8221; opening on September 12, 2008. <\/p>\n<p>The gala opening premiere date <a href=\"http:\/\/thestrippodcast.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/breaking-criss-angel-show-delayed.html\">was first rescheduled<\/a> for October 9, 2008 but then moved back a day to Friday, October 10, 2008, because October 9, 2008 is a major Jewish holiday. <\/p>\n<p>It is now questionable, if I can make it to the show as I planned for September. I will probably be again in Vegas in November though, for a second chance. It???s a small bummer though.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the names for the Cirque du Soleil shows for Tokyo and Macao were revealed and there have been some press conferences where I got some video footage from to get a small glimpse at the new shows.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo show is called <b>&#8220;Zed&#8221;<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video that includes the web intro, some press conference footage and a TV spot in Japanese for the new Cirque du Soleil show that will premiere on October 1, 2008 at the Cirque du Soleil Theatre at Disney Resort Tokyo (Disneyland).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qa0WiTG_eXM&#038;fmt=18\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blogimages\/clickhere.png\" boder=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qa0WiTG_eXM&#038;fmt=18\">Backup Link to Video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zed.co.jp\/\">official &#8220;ZED&#8221; website<\/a> for ticket purchases and more.<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Zed&#8221; Show Creators<\/h4>\n<p>Fran??ois Girard -Writer and Director<br \/>Line Tremblay &#8211; Director of Creation<br \/>Francois Seguin &#8211; Set Designer<br \/>Renee April &#8211; Costume Designer<br \/>Rene Dupere &#8211; Composer and Arranger <br \/>David Finn &#8211; Lighting Designer<br \/>Debra Brown &#8211; Choreographer<br \/>Jean-Jacques Pillet &#8211; Choreographer<br \/>Francois Bergeron &#8211; Sound Designer<br \/>Scott Osgood &#8211; Acrobatic Equipment and Rigging Designer<br \/>Florence Pot &#8211; Acrobatic Performance Designer<br \/>Eleni Uranis &#8211; Make-up Designer<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming show by Cirque du Soleil at the Sands Venetian Macao resort and casino at the Cotai Strip in Macao, China (Asia) is called <b>&#8220;Zaia&#8221;<\/b> (Work name Cosmos).<\/p>\n<p>Here is a 9:07 min preview for the show. This video took me some considerable work to do. The show is expected to open on 26. August next month.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Y4gedmnj3U&#038;fmt=18\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blogimages\/clickhere.png\" boder=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Y4gedmnj3U&#038;fmt=18\">Backup Link to Video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell that the quality of the individual video sources differs significantly, but you will get an idea of what the show will be like and that is the whole purpose of the video. <\/p>\n<p>I could (if I would have it) show a multi-angle 7.1 Dolby digital HDTV-DVD version of the entire show and it would also just be a preview of the show, because Cirque shows have to be experienced live. There is no canned substitute for this yet.<\/p>\n<h4>&#8220;Zaia&#8221; Show Creators<\/h4>\n<p>Guy Lalibert?? &#8211; Guide<br \/>Gilles Ste-Croix &#8211; SVP, Creative Content <br \/>Gilles Maheu &#8211; Writer and Director <br \/>Neilson Vignola &#8211; Director of Creation <br \/>Guillaume Lord &#8211; Set Designer <br \/>Dominique Lemieux &#8211; Costume Designer <br \/>Violaine Corradi &#8211; Composer &#038; Musical Director <br \/>Martino M??ller &#8211; Choreographer <br \/>Jeff Hall &#8211; Acrobatic Choreogpraher <br \/>Rob Bollinger &#8211; Acrobatic Performance Designer <br \/>Guy Lemire &#8211; Acrobatic Equipment &#038; Rigging <br \/>Axel Morgenthaler &#8211; Lighting Designer <br \/>Jimmy Lakatos  &#8211; Projection Designer <br \/>Raymond Saint-Jean &#8211; Projection Designer <br \/>Steve Dubuc &#8211; Sound Designer <br \/>Nathalie Gagn?? &#8211; Make-up Designer <br \/>Leonid Leykin &#8211; Clown Acts Designer <\/p>\n<p>I also got some video footage from new Cirque du Soleil special performances. I updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/cirque\">my Cirque du Soleil primer<\/a> with those, so go and check it out. You can also access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/CirqueDuSoleilGuru\">my latest Cirque du Soleil videos<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>That is it for now. Signing off<\/p>\n<p>Carsten aka Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks, here is a quick update for what is going on with Cirque du Soleil. The new Cirque du Soleil and Criss Angel&#8217;s &#8220;Believe&#8221; show at Luxor was supposed to open September 1, 2008 for 15 previews through September 11, 2008 followed by a grand opening gala on September 12, 2008, instead, the gala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cirque-du-soleil","category-cirque-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}