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...style majesty and grandeur are now elements of many Vegas shows. Some, especially Cirque du Soleil's $33 million Mystere at Treasure Island, have the otherworldly vision to transcend this outsize format. And some, like EFX--a $67 million investment, including $27 million to equip its theater with 3-D movie projection, a "fog wall" of steam and liquid nitrogen and hot-wired rumble seats--are content to give visitors a hell of a high-tech ride...
...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...
Broadway isn't the only place for grand spectacle. At the Treasure Island hotel in Las Vegas, that Mecca of excess, the Montreal troupe Cirque du Soleil has created a gorgeously surreal, thrillingly theatrical pageant. Acrobats mingle with Adam and Eve, spaceship Earth and a giant snail in a fantasy of rebirth. It plays like the fever dream of some millennial impresario. Call him Siegfried Roy Webber...
Great expectations bewitch the slum of Cite Soleil. Markets and workshops are springing up as residents revel in their release from fear. People are chipping in pennies to buy paint and new fluorescent lights to spruce up their decrepit neighborhood. "Since he is the President of the people, I'm sure he won't leave us in the street," says Tiol Losa, a carpenter whose home was one of 1,300 leveled last December by soldiers who tore through the neighborhood on a rampage of revenge. "When Aristide comes, we'll be able to eat," says Mona Numa, a mother...
Show Business: Cirque du Soleil dazzles the eye and heart with...