Originally Posted by
phillygold
Wow, this is a great thread. Thanks PTravel!
I have seen BMG 2x. Once in NY about 10 years ago, then at the Luxor about 4 years ago. While I enjoyed the production in both places, the viewpoints of my companions could not have been more different. One liked the show, the other was checking her watch after 15 minutes and absolutely could not wait for it to end.
In speaking with friends that have seen the show (either in NY or LV) the reaction is solidly in the "I liked the show, or the I hated the show" camp. There seems to be no middle ground.
I'm happy that you enjoyed Ka, I will be seeing it this weekend in LV.
I'm curious -- did your friends say why they liked it or, conversely, why they didn't?
Enjoy Ka. Let us know what you think of the idea of maintaining a traditional proscenium, but eliminating a fixed and two-dimensional stage. I believe Dragone referred to his staging of Ka as treating the performance space as a "void." From a dramaturgical standpoint, I thought this was one of the more exciting staging choices, and one that is possible only in the context of a high-tech and expensive LV show -- you won't see "voids" being used in the local community theater production of Hello, Dolly. Ka is also the first (and possibly only) Cirque show that has an actual plot, as opposed to only a thematic through-line, which I thought was a major, but logical, step for Cirque du Soliel.