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...mephistophelean Rene Bazinet stands at the center of the spectacle. This wiry, pale emcee appears as five different characters throughout the evening, including a demonic schoolboy and a hunchbacked grim reaper and a mischievous harlequin. In a particularly bawdy acrobatic scene involving a gigantic feather bed and a swing set, he appears in striped tights, a harness top and a winged hat that makes him look more like an underworld gogo dancer than a traditional ringmaster. A master of vocal effects, Bazinet plays an imaginary game of catch with the spectators and effortlessly incorporates an audience member into a hilarious...
...real, one-ring circus, with acrobats, a juggler, a high-wire tiptoer. And no animal acts; that would be redundant, given all the exhibitions of gazelle grace and leonine strength. Le Cirque evokes the three best responses from a circus audience: "Gee, that clown's funny!" (when Rene Bazinet, a talking mime, gets caught in a bathroom that becomes an aquarium); "Hey, the human body can't do that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists do a bungee-cord ballet...
GERALD J. BAZINET...
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