Word: circusing
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...then we heard that they had found a baby with yellow booties, and I knew it was her." The family wants to keep Baylee's funeral private. "We don't want any press there," says Aren's mother Debbie. "We just don't want this to be a circus." Says Aren: "I know my daughter is in heaven. I know...
...constrained by tradition as well as by language. Just as most Broadway musicals look for their material in only a few places (old movies and old songbooks), so the crafters of Vegas extravaganzas find their inspiration in venerable forms of entertainment. The shows may stress magic or music or circus acts or ladies of the chorus, but all are essentially revues. Think of a zillionaire's R-rated TV variety hour: The Ed Sullivan Show with bosoms. And for the sound track, turn on an encyclopedic oldies station that goes from Gershwin to Grease...
...Show in the Galaxy," as the Barnum played by Crawford describes it. But it is the most Vegas-y show in town--a huge compendium of big shows from Broadway and Vegas. There are references to Crawford's earlier triumphs in Phantom and Barnum. As in Mystere, there are circus acts, liturgical and drum music, a giant climactic apparition. The Morlock battle is reminiscent of the pirate attack staged outside Treasure Island every evening. There's even a Siegfried & Roy joke, as well as the mandatory legerdemain and leggy chorines. See EFX and you've seen...
...water show has its own niche," Kutash says, "which is the key to making it in Vegas. How many magic shows can you have, how many French shows, how many circus shows, before you become redundant?" Steve Wynn will test that premise next year. His Beau Rivage will feature a new production by Cirque du Soleil: a water show. It may be great. But to be a true Vegas show, it will have to be like nothing--and everything-you've seen before. With music...
...Circus is coming to Cambridge on Monday, and Carebears are the main attraction. Michael Lerner, editor of the liberal-Jewish Tikkun magazine, and Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West are scheduled to bring their travelling show to MIT's Kresge Auditorium. The message? A millenial panacea for the Black-Jewish divide entitled "Let the Healing Begin...