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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Anyone see this in Seoul yet? Tickets are a little on the high side, especially for Korea. Non side views are about $100 a ticket. The show is over 2 hours, so they don't cheap out on time. However, the content is a little lame. It starts off well. A guy doing some wild tricks in a wheel. There are these four little Chinese girls doing a wild spinning top act. There's a mime that grabs Koreans from the audience for some participation stuff. That was pretty wild. I'm always impressed by what immediate hams Koreans are when they're up on stage for these kinds of things.

The rest of the show is pretty lame and standard fare (a single person trapeze act, some tumblers, some weird dancing, a weird tribute to an old Intel commercial where guys in clean room bunny suits jump around). The worst part is a whole rope jumping routine. You want to see excellent double dutch, head to any American inner city. I just wasn't that impressed with paying $70 a ticket to see it on stage. I was half praying for a donkey show and French Canadians would be up for it too if you spray painted the donkey with a harlequin pattern and played arabic influenced spanish music.

The Koreans in the audience seemed to be going wild, especially for some stupid act where a half naked man and woman climb on each other.

SarcasmKills · Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

I enjoyed it. Yeah, it was a bit on the expensive side, but I didn't think it was a waste of time or anything...

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

Yo!Chingo · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: Seoul Korea

Are you talking about Quidam? Then yes, I've seen it. AWESOME! The acrobatics are great and the music is just lovely. I thought it was totally worth the 100,000won.

Never seen shows in Vegas so can't answer.

kermo · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

The music was unbelievable. The "storyline" was a bit questionable (aka useless) and there were a few characters that were a waste of time, but the "statue" act someone referred to with the "half-naked man and woman climbing all over each other" was breathtaking. The strength and grace required knocked me out, and it was personally gratifying to see a woman performing such powerful feats, not just being displayed.

princess · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: soul of Asia

I thought it was breathtakingly spectacular. The show and the music were awesome! After the show, I also bought a program book, a t-shirt and a CD of the music. I'd like to see some of the other Cirque shows, too. Totally worth 77,000 won, as my seats were in the center and I could see well for the price.

Young FRANKenstein · Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 2:07 am Post subject:

I saw it on Friday night, and I was more impressed with the first half of the show, and less so with the second...I was engaged when the action was fast and snappy, but the second they slowed it down to do the stregnth shows on the ropes and the contortionists...meh.

LL Moonmanhead · Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Location: yo momma

I saw the Beatles Cirque show in the Venitian, Vegas and it was absolutely amazing. Plus, the music was great! Doh!

tareze · Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Location: north or south of a river

i thought the tumblers and the woman in the fabric were wonderful! also loved the guy walking slowly through the air.

sirfro · Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Location: Guui-dong...lol

My girlfriend had wanted to see a show for years, so I splashed out for our 4 year ann. and did the VIP thing.
Along with a program and cd, they had a mini-buffet and open bar for an hour before the show. The food was pretty good, the alcohol was better: white and red wine from Jacobs Creek [Aus], Moosehead beer, and Chivas! They had desserts happening at the intermission.
I thought the show was enjoyable. It's not a big tent so it looked like all the seats would've had a pretty good view.

kermo · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:45 am Post subject:

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004