Me = happy Cirque fan
Saltimbanco (1992) - currently on tour of Latin America
[per Wikipedia] set to close this December in Brazil.
First Cirque du Soleil show to tour South America.
Lead vocalists:
CD: Francine Poitras, Laurence Janot
DVD: Francine Poitras
(filmed in Atlanta in 1994.)
Mystère (December 1993) - resident show (Treasure Island, Las Vegas)
[per Wikipedia - "It was originally planned for Caesar's Palace with the theme based on Greek and Roman Mythology. The plan, however, was scrapped by the casino execs, thinking the project would be too risky."]
Cirque now has five resident shows in Vegas... none of them in Caesar's Palace... :)
Lead vocalists:
CD:
(Studio) Nathalie Gauvin, Élise Gouin
(Live) Nathalie Gauvin, Wendy Talley
(The show was scheduled to be filmed in the Fall of 2005 but filming did not take place.)
[Saw it June 22, 2002]
Alegría (show, 1994; film, 1998) - show currently on second European tour
(Title is Spanish for "joy" or "jubilation")
Lead vocalists:
CD: Francesca Gagnon
DVD: Francesca Gagnon, Ève Montpetit (filmed in Sydney in 2001)
Film: Pierrette Arseneau, Isabelle Corradi
Quidam (April 1996) - currently on third North American tour
(Title means "a certain one/thing" or "anonymous passerby" in Classical Latin)
[Saw it July 16, 2006]
Lead vocalists:
CD: Audrey Brisson-Jutrás, Mathieu Lavoie
DVD: Audrey Brisson-Jutrás, Richard Price
(filmed in Amsterdam in 1999)
"O" (October 1998) - resident show (Bellagio, Las Vegas) [home of the “dancing fountains”]
(Show is currently scheduled to run until 2008.)
Cirque's first aquatic show.
Every member of the cast is SCUBA-certified.
There is an invisible wall between the pool and the audience generated by air jets; the goal is to maintain two temperature zones in the theatre. The stage is kept at a higher temperature while the audience area is kept at a lower temperature. A temperature sensor every few seats in the theatre helps ensure the audience area is maintained at the correct temperature.
To minimize damage to the musical instruments, the musicians and their instruments play from glass enclousures in the theater. Some of the musical instruments used in the show are more than 100 years old. The unique string instrument heard in the soundtrack of “O” is an erhu, a traditional Chinese violin.
To maintain a fresh look on the performers, some performers have multiple sets of costumes so they may reappear dry despite having been in the water.
Lead vocalists:
CD: Roxane Potvin, Toumany Kouyaté (Backing vocalists: Julie McInnes, Élise Guay)
[Saw it June 28, 2002]
La Nouba (December 1998) - resident show (Walt Disney World, Orlando)
(Its title derives from the French phrase faire la nouba, meaning "to party" or "to live it up".)
[Saw it July 1st, 2006]
Lead vocalists:
CD: Dessy di Lauro, O'Neill Langlois
DVD: Sisaundra Lewis, Isabeau Proulx-Lemire
(filmed in 2003)
Dralion (April 1999) - currently on European tour
(Its setting is more Eastern in nature. The name combines two popular characters in the Eastern world: the dragon and the lion.)
[Saw it on North American tour; Winter 2000 - McLean, VA]
Lead vocalists:
CD & DVD: Agnès Sohier, Érik Karol
(filmed in San Francisco in 2000)
Fire Within (2002) - reality series which follows Cirque performers involved in the creation and launch of Varekai.
Varekai (April 2002) - currently on North American tour
(Its title means "wherever" in the Romany language, and the show is an "acrobatic tribute to the nomadic soul". The plot is based loosely on the Greek myth of Icarus.)
[Saw it on North American tour; Fall 2004 - Washington DC]
Lead vocalists:
CD: Zara Tellander, Mathieu Lavoie, Natacha Atlas, Tina Grace
DVD: Zara Tellander, Mathieu Lavoie
(filmed in Toronto in 2002)
Zumanity (August 2003) - resident show (New York-New York, Las Vegas)
The first adult-themed Cirque du Soleil show, billed as "Another Side of Cirque du Soleil."
The title is a play on the words zoo and humanity, reflecting the show's theme of "the human zoo."
Lead vocalists:
CD: Joey Arias (promo cd)
Lovesick - a "making of" documentary filmed in Las Vegas in 2003.
KÀ (November 2004) - resident show (MGM Grand, Las Vegas)
First Cirque du Soleil production that deviates from the company's usual format; it is instead more like a Vegas production show than a traditional Cirque production.
The presentation of the story is very straight-forward and easy to understand, unlike the more abstract visuals presented by other Cirque productions.
Every seat in the KÀ Theater is equipped with a pair of stereo speakers at ear level. The digitally-mixed audio system can route sounds to these in-seat speakers, which when combined with the main house speaker system, can create a very dynamic surround sound audio experience.
Lead vocalists:
CD: Élise Velle, Nitza Melas
KÀ Extreme - a look at the creation of KÀ.
Corteo (April 2005) - currently on North American tour
(The title means "cortege" in Italian)
Lead vocalists:
CD:
DVD: Estelle Esse, Marie-Michelle Faber, Helena Saldanha
(filmed in Toronto in 2005)
Delirium (January 2006) - Traveling live performance multi-media event featuring remixes of Cirque music.
Love (June 2006) - resident show (The Mirage, Las Vegas)
Celebrating the musical legacy of The Beatles
(features original Beatles recordings; no Cirque musicians)
[Source: The Cirque Tribune]
Past Shows:
Cirque du Soleil
La Magie Continue
Le Cirque Réinventé (dubbed "We Reinvented the Circus")
Fascination
Nouvelle Expérience (dubbed "Cirque du Soleil II: A New Experience")