{"id":2562,"date":"2008-02-19T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/cirque-macau-alice-in-the-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:40:27","slug":"cirque-macau-alice-in-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/cirque-macau-alice-in-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque Macau &#8211; Alice in the Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ledevoir_accueil.gif\" href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ledevoir_accueil.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ledevoir_accueil.gif\" alt=\"ledevoir_accueil.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is very ironic. Here&#8217;s a news release about the overall concept of the new Cirque Macau show at the Sands Venetian that I&#8217;m working on (I knew about it, but won&#8217;t release any info on the show until it&#8217;s released to the media).<\/p>\n<p>The ironic part is that one of the projects I had to cancel when I joined Cirque Du Soleil was writing my new musical version of Alice in Wonderland. It was scheduled for performance in April of 2008. Mmmm&#8230;..coincidental don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>St\u00c3\u00a9phane Baillargeon<br \/>\n\u00c3\u2030dition du mardi 19 f\u00c3\u00a9vrier 2008<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Article on Cirque Macau I released in French by Ledevoir.com at http:\/\/www.ledevoir.com\/2008\/02\/19\/176805.html?fe=3176&amp;fp=242761&amp;fr=68506<\/p>\n<p>You can translate the original article from French to English at: <a href=\"http:\/\/babelfish.altavista.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/babelfish.altavista.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Partial English Translation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The director Gilles Maheu prepares an original production  described in the documents of the company like &#8220;Alice with the country of the wonders, but in cosmos&#8221;. The spectacle of Venetian Hotel, inaugurated next October, will use seven lifting performances,  including three calling upon about fifteen dancers. Gilles  Maheu, well-known for his work of dance-theatre within the late troop  Carbon-14, called upon Martino M\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bcller, the choreographer who worked  already with him on the musical Our-injury of Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The CDS quickly hopes to propose &#8220;at least five&#8221; spectacles with Macao, according to an internal source. In fact, the company  wishes to reproduce there with identical the model of development of  Las Vegas where it is about to offer its sixth production and aims  programming at ten spectacles from here 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; With reading tomorrow: Will the CDS settle in London and New York?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt in French:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Le metteur en sc\u00c3\u00a8ne Gilles Maheu pr\u00c3\u00a9pare une production originale d\u00c3\u00a9crite dans les documents de la compagnie comme \u00c2\u00abAlice au pays des merveilles, mais dans le cosmos\u00c2\u00bb. Le spectacle du Venetian Hotel, inaugur\u00c3\u00a9 en octobre prochain, utilisera sept performances acrobatiques, dont trois faisant appel \u00c3\u00a0 une quinzaine de danseurs. Gilles Maheu, bien connu pour son travail de danse-th\u00c3\u00a9\u00c3\u00a2tre au sein de la d\u00c3\u00a9funte troupe Carbone 14, a fait appel \u00c3\u00a0 Martino M\u00c3\u00bcller, le chor\u00c3\u00a9graphe qui travaillait d\u00c3\u00a9j\u00c3\u00a0 avec lui sur la com\u00c3\u00a9die musicale Notre-Dame de Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Le CDS esp\u00c3\u00a8re rapidement proposer \u00c2\u00abau moins cinq\u00c2\u00bb spectacles \u00c3\u00a0 Macao, selon une source interne. En fait, la compagnie souhaite y reproduire \u00c3\u00a0 l&#8217;identique le mod\u00c3\u00a8le de d\u00c3\u00a9veloppement de Las Vegas o\u00c3\u00b9 elle est sur le point d&#8217;offrir sa sixi\u00c3\u00a8me production et vise une programmation \u00c3\u00a0 dix spectacles d&#8217;ici 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00c3\u20ac lire demain: Le CDS s&#8217;installera-t-il \u00c3\u00a0 Londres et \u00c3\u00a0 New York?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very ironic. Here&#8217;s a news release about the overall concept of the new Cirque Macau show at the Sands Venetian that I&#8217;m working on (I knew about it, but won&#8217;t release any info on the show until it&#8217;s released to the media). The ironic part is that one of the projects I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,818],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}