Received this email today asking me what it’s like to work for Cirque Du Soleil.
Hi Mr. Askland,
I am curious to know how it is to work at Cirque? What are the hours you work as a musician? How long do you have to prepare for an audition after they choose you to be part of the show?
Please let me know.
Best regards
Daniel
A friend asked me for help on how I prepare music for musical theater so here’s a couple notes that may be obvious, or not. These notes are for community theater productions which in my experience usually have about three months of rehearsal time before opening.
Artists for Cirque Du Soleil’s ZAIA show got their official Cirque bathrobes yesterday. The photos on this post are not of the actual bathrobe – these are pictures a friend sent me making fun of how much I like my bathrobe. And I do love my Cirque bathrobe! It’s heavy and black with a hood and has a gigantic CDS logo in full color on the back. With the hood we all look like Obi Won Kenobi or Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.
2008.05.30(14:21)
*NOTE – This post is in Chinese. If you don’t have Chinese fonts installed on your computer – you won’t be able to read it. (Which means you probably don’t read Chinese anyway…)
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Apple Daily Hong Kong newspaper preview photos of Cirque Du Soleil’s show ZAIA in Macau, China. (Click image for full size image).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYMbFbSlKY
Press conference and previews of ZAIA (Cirque Du Soleil in Macau, China at the Sands Venetian) presented May 29, 2008 at the new Cirque theater at the Venetian resort and casino.
We’re all on stage at the end, but hard to make any of us out.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IquF826T2M
Video trailer for ZAIA – The Cirque Du Soleil show in Macau, China at the Sands Venetian.
(Cirque Du Soleil “ZAIA” photos – click bottom three for full size image)
Information here released publicly on May 29, 2008 by Cirque Du Soleil with live performance excerpts at their new theater in Macau, China at the Sands Venetian.
ZAIA (“Zai-Yah”)is the name of our new Cirque Du Soleil show in Macau, China. Former working titles included “Macao 2008”, “Macao One” and “Cosmos”.
There are several preview videos on YouTube.com of the CIRQUE ZAIA press conference and previews.
It’s my birthday today (May 27 – a day ahead in China) which is not interesting in itself, but two kind of funny things:
Did you know you can send greeting cards from the Cirque Du Soleil website? A friend sent me this and I thought it was awesome: Cirque Du Soleil Conrad Birthday Card.
And if you wonder where I get my sense of humor from (most call it a curse…), my Mother played a good birthday trick on me. She had everyone and their brother send me a birthday message. So today (I’m a day ahead of the West because I’m living in China) I got swamped with birthday greeting emails. That was very fun.
And you know what I get to do on my birthday? Rehearse the newest Cirque Du Soleil show in their new theater. And THAT is the best birthday present of all!
FYI, the software WordPress is 5 years old on May 27.
