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Whatever we do one of these episodes it is to review something and today is no different.
We are here to review a stage production this go around.
Cirque dreams jungle fantasy.
This is based on the concept of the French Cirque.
You may know where to start from Cirque.
They so late.
This is not the same brand.
This is completely different brand.
That has many many many different touring companies.
This being one of them has been around since 2007.
Had a limited run on Broadway at one time the lead role in this was played by Debbie
Gibson.
You know, I'm a big fan.
It is done over a hundred and we talked about it in a breach.
But you were a big fan of Debbie Gibson.
It has played an over a hundred and seventy cities in North America alone over 2,000
performances amongst those hundred and seventy cities.
It has gone international and has actually played for our troops overseas as well.
So this is a big deal.
Has a very quick three night run here in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
But this is a traveling production.
So we want our members of the empire worldwide to know about this.
What here's what you need to know.
Thanks plays at a very magical jungle.
I guess you could call it narrated, but I wouldn't even use the word narrated.
It's kind of instead of having a ringmaster.
It has a like a jungle princess you could call it.
Saying it.
Yeah, she sings through the whole thing.
I think she's referred to in some of the articles I've read as Mother Nature.
No, I'm good with that.
I'm good with that.
Oceanists, balancing acts, aerial specialists, dancing, singing.
It's got everything.
Comedy.
That's have some comedy.
Audience participating.
Audience participation.
No animals, though.
There's actually people in costumes but no live animals, which is kind of what sets the
circ brands apart.
I've seen a couple of Cirque de Soleil performance as I know Don has kind of different.
Now Chad and I earlier this year got to see a different Odysseo, which is not really
a circ, but it's kind of of its eloquent, it has live animals with it.
I think some of the people that started circ, I think, might have splintered by it.
I know, she started circ, they so late.
Yeah.
Did that.
So let's talk a little bit about this production.
Don, let's start with you.
How do we, we can't really talk about a storyline because there isn't one.
But how did you feel about the presentation overall?
Before we could begin that, we have to think, Cindy Evans, everybody at ATT Back
Oregon and Winsboro Opera House for it to find us to this.
They're so great to us.
Better than they ever.
Oh, yeah, Cindy.
So much for writing this.
This was incredible.
The production, like I said, there was no storyline.
It's just act after act with a little bit of singing in between, which leads you from
one, you know, kind of, performance to the next.
I'm going to call these performances because that's what they are.
Each of these people get like a, you know, five, ten minute performance showing your skills
of what they do.
And some people come back to, you know, more than once because they do different styles of
aerial, not execute name it.
Um, but a deal like what the flow was, you know, who says you have to have a storyline
when you see something incredible like this, indeed, you know, um, but I really like what
they did.
I love that one of the funniest things of the whole night was that audience participation
with the, uh, I would just say the explore character, you know, that was rolling on that.
But on the whole thing, it's just, which I put in my written review at the clubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
It is a sensory overload indeed, the visually, uh, hearing sound in the, just emotion
guilt, feel of everything.
It was a great mix of the whole, uh, caboodle, you know, kit chat.
Boy, if you're a fan of day glow, there's a lot of it.
There were scenes that were reminding me, you know, just of the, of the set dressing and the,
uh, the way they would play black light into it.
It kind of looked like that.
And this is no knock against it.
That alley fight in Batman forever.
See, I thought you were going to see you, you felt like you were doing dinner theater at
the reinforced cafe.
Kind of, kind of.
I mean, it's very reminiscent of that, you know, so it's also a tree frog.
That's the first thing I thought of.
Um, it's, uh, this thing's impressive.
I mean, it's, the, the fact that you can make all this work and have a, a circus environment
without a single animal in sight, I still think one of my favorite, uh, favorite things
they did was the, that little parade of ostriches that went.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Although one guy's seen to be having a little bit of problem with his arm.
He couldn't quite get his arm.
Well, the, the angle they're holding their arms at to make the ostriches work.
I'd be having problems.
But I, I noticed that that didn't really happen to him until actually until he did that
little flip.
And he looked like he landed on his arm and I think he hurt his arm.
Oh, that's something.
I think that's why I couldn't kid his arm back up again.
Uh, but this, I mean, it's, it's, it's about as pure as entertainment gets.
Agreed.
Uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's unlike anything most people have ever seen if they've
never experienced anything in the Cirque universe, be it Cirque de Soleil, Cirque
Dreams.
You know, they, they all kind of tend to be cut from the same cloth, uh, but it's really
impressive stuff.
I'm just a production value in this thing is ridiculous for me, if you're looking
for the deeper meaning of life, you're not going to get it here.
If you're looking just as simply be entertained, then yes, you know, you're going to enjoy
yourself.
I, I think there are a lot of people in the audience that weren't quite sure what they
were getting into and weren't seeing it truly for what it was.
But I felt that the, the presentation itself was well done.
I think that one of the fascinating things for me was there were lighting and effects, but
they weren't relied upon as much as other states productions that we've seen, right?
That it's more about the performers than it is about the presentation.
Although there's a good mix there, right?
You know, there were some interesting lighting effects, but there was nothing that like,
I didn't feel like I was in a Genesis show.
No, no, no, I don't remember it.
I don't recall it.
Pyro or any, any smoke or artificial fog or anything, there might have been, but I don't
remember.
There was a little bit of fog.
Was there?
I don't remember seeing any, but you know, that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.
Um, I'm a heck though, can you imagine what the wardrobe budget on this thing was
beginning?
That was probably most of the budget.
You would think.
I don't know how much they pay their talent, but they pay a lot to their seamstress.
Well, yeah, one thing I kind of liked is through some of these performances that these
people were doing was how little creatures you could say would come out and just walk
through the stage and then distract you from what was going on and just gave me that
and it didn't do anything.
They just kind of stroll across the stage.
You never saw this in one twice.
That's so many different.
Right.
And I think the point there was just to kind of keep you reminding you that you're in the forest
and these kind of things happen when you're in a forest.
And on props, it was very simple, but it was incredible.
It was a basic backdrop and they had some of these huge plants that came in, but you didn't
need much props because it was the performances in the middle and you need a lot of room
for that.
Did anybody notice that the backdrop ever changed or was it?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It never changed.
It's just the way they lit it.
Oh, yeah.
Sometimes it was accented.
Sometimes it wasn't.
The lighting was perfect on this thing.
I was just blown away.
Right.
The information is that you're seeing the dark lights come out and that neon just exploded.
Now, one animal, like on how you describe the green with the four-spike feet walking around,
that was like, that was good.
Right at the beginning of the deal with the hoop side of the member.
Yeah.
No, that was the two male contortionists that were painting.
The thing that looked like the land strider from the dark crystal cover.
Yeah.
Green Ivy.
Yeah.
I realized that's a person that's got stilt on all fours.
I think, come on.
I mean, they're right.
I guess my next question, and I'll ask you, Chad, first.
What of the different acts really appealed to you more than the others?
Man.
And it's really hard to peg down.
Well, you really don't know the names of any of the performers, because you're really
not given up.
Right.
I'm just talking about the ax themselves.
The girls that I guess were supposed to be snakes that were in the beginning, see?
Yeah.
I saw that differently, but I'll let you finish.
I don't know if there's supposed to be snakes or insects or what, but with the music
they were playing, I kind of got the impression that they were probably snakes.
I'll figure this one was going to come up sooner or later.
You're welcome, internet.
Let's see.
Obviously, the guy that was filming the Silent Movie, that got everybody go.
For me, that went a little long shoot now.
To me, that kind of broke up, you could only be dazzled for so long before you want
a little bit of break for something that's a little lesser.
That comes at the end of the first act, would that have been better served as the beginning
of the second act?
Maybe so.
Maybe as the beginning of the first act, you got audience participants.
That's a fiery guy with the, that was setting up the jungle guy and his damsel and the
jealous cowboy or whatever.
He was filming a Silent Movie.
That's what it says in the program.
Yeah.
That was, what am I thinking?
But when you're talking to the Seychelles, you talk about those two girls that in
with, in back and forth and in the third girl that was supposed to be the grassman.
We're both on to fit until like a, you know, two by two foot box, they could mail themselves
in a shipping tube.
Exactly.
Yeah, I think they're more like cats or tigers.
They look like to me on that out there.
And the two kings.
These guys that were paying it up silver.
Yes.
I was going to say that.
My god.
That very last move they did.
That very last move.
I couldn't think of one that didn't freak me out.
It was just the ankles and it's like, you know, I was always joking to my guess.
So I could do that.
I could do that.
I can't do that.
I can't do that.
I can't do that.
My standouts were those two like you said, and I love that comedy bit.
But the bouncing act at the end was incredible.
The guy with the, oh, yeah, and oh, they got to keep stacking stuff on top of stuff
on top of stuff on top of stuff.
And sometimes in some performances, they have two guys on those things.
I think I broke an ankle watching.
Yeah.
But one other thing which I really enjoyed was those two looks like Asian girls
that come out with those dresses that kept on turning.
That was cool.
Yeah.
The dancing beat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was.
They went up in the air real quick and down, and that was, there was just so many.
How do you pick it?
But I have to give a shout out to one character, you know, me playing the, me and the
older back in high school, the violinist that he could play, even with the girl wrapped
around him.
That was cool.
Yeah.
As I wanted to refer to as Thunder the Fiddler.
Yeah.
That feeling.
He was incredible.
He played incredible.
And that thing never left his chin.
It was like attached to his shoulders.
I mean, it was literally attached to it.
It looked like any violin I'd ever seen, but me neither.
For me, I really, really dug what you said looked like snakes.
What I saw every time they would stop their motion, they were giraffes.
The foot bent up was the giraffe's head, and they were just different formations of giraffes
that are standing with each other.
That's what I saw.
But that's a good thing about this.
You could, it could be one costume in 20 different people can think of 20 different animals
exactly.
Exactly.
That was one of my personal favorites.
I really enjoyed the balance guy at the end.
My thing that I wrote in my written review, which is that WWEWW dot the clubhouse
podcast.
Which is our website.
I kind of felt like there was a lot more wild factor in the second act than there was
in the first act.
I think they needed to balance that a little bit better.
Because I was kind of watching the people around me.
And I felt like a lot of people were kind of getting kind of beaten down a little bit
in the first half.
And the second half, like everybody was all of a sudden into it.
And I think that's because there was, although everything was awesome, there was just
more uber awesome in the second act than there was in the first.
Does that make any sense?
I could kind of see that, but the drafts, as you said, that set the bar.
Oh, I thought they were amazing.
They were lizards.
They were lizards.
They are controlling lizards.
Okay.
So I was close.
I also dug the roller skating couple.
Oh, yeah.
That dude's got a really strong net.
Is that zebra's?
Yes.
All any time you have aerial, do you have aerialists?
I mean, I get nervous.
But it's one of my favorite things to watch, especially when you have the things where
they rack the sashes around themselves, like they had close to the end of the butterfly
scene.
I'm always a fan of that, because it amazes me how the strength that it takes to do that.
But really, those were those were the stuff that really stood out to me.
I have to put some kind of testament into the show where it brings people into the show
so much.
And this is the point where I want to bring up the gentleman who comes out who does
these incredible things with these balancing balls, and he has two in the way.
The last guy.
Yeah.
And he's like juggling eight balls at once.
But there was one or two times where a ball came out.
And instead of the crowd laughing, they're like, oh, you know, because they want the
juggler.
Yeah.
Not the guy at the end, okay.
Yeah.
The juggler, because there was one or two times where a ball actually came out.
But the crowd was like, we're not laughing at you.
We feel sorry, but you're kicked.
But he just, and all he did is just throw him into the ball.
Here we go.
I was also impressed.
I'm impressed with the lady.
They did the hula hoops.
She was really, really good.
There was just, it was, this was a lot of fun that I just, I think it's, it's something
that the whole family can truly enjoy.
Oh, yeah.
And nobody gets bored, especially when you watch your kids, how they react.
There was also a local girl that was in the production.
They got a lot of love, man.
And they gave a lot of, a lot of focus was there are a lot of kids at this performance
we saw.
And they were not rustling, rustling around talking or anything like that.
They kept those kids into the show.
Well, you could, you could tell that a lot of the material is geared towards a younger
eyes.
And if you listen to some of the lyrics, they sound like a kid's show song.
I mean, it's, you know, some of the lyrics, I'm like, okay, you know, it's, you know,
musically, melodically, it's, you know, it's, it's universal.
But the lyrics are definitely geared towards a younger ear as, as well as some of the
costume designs.
You could definitely tell it looked like something from a children's production.
Although, looks like a fortune was spent on it.
Don't give me wrong.
Well, the guy who was my plus one last night, he kind of made a point where he goes,
this is more family entertainment.
It's not what it thought it was.
I love it.
But, you know, it's not the big props.
And I go, well, you know, this is a traveling show.
You see some of these are permanent.
They get out of the stage, go up and down, all that.
But this is, you know, it's traveling.
And I thought, some people are going to go in thinking, this is going to be one kind of show.
But it was more just entertainment for the family.
But I think people will still love it.
We're going to have fun.
Yeah, that's what it was.
Anything else we want to talk about before we get to the final analysis?
We have to thank Cindy again.
Thank you, Cindy Evans for inviting us to this thing.
Everybody at ATT Pack Oregon, the Winspir Opera House.
Thank you so much.
All right, the way we do the final analysis on this show.
We don't give you letter grades, thumbs up, thumbs down, rankings, whatever.
Our audience, the empire is better than that.
The way we write things on this show, question number one is, would you see this production
again?
If the answer is no, we're done here.
With stage productions, if the answer is yes, we ask, where would you think would
be the best place to sit for another viewing of this?
Can I start with you?
Would you watch this production again?
Oh, yeah.
How far would you be learning to go?
Well, it's a, we're always right there behind the, what would you call that central box?
I mean, but near the, the sound and light boards, near the back page, and at some,
at some point I would love to get into the orchestra pit area, just, just so I get, especially
something like this.
Well, I see, and that's the thing with this particular production.
Most circstile performances, there's live music played, and I besides the violinist,
I couldn't tell if there was a live music, a live band backstage, or if it was pre,
pre-recorded.
I looked at up there.
Oh, did you?
Okay.
I think, I think, in the earlier part of the run of this thing, when it first started
about six years ago, I think they had a live percussionist stage, but I think they've
done away with that.
So, you want to be down, you want to be down, you want to be down low, which telling me.
Yeah, I'm sure, I could pretty much guess where you guys would want to be.
Dom, we'll go to you.
Would you see this again?
Oh, definitely.
Okay.
Where would you want to sit?
I'm going to do this a little bit different.
I would break a minute for anybody to sit anywhere, just to see this thing.
Okay.
Okay.
But me personally, where I'd want to sit, honestly, I'm being honest here.
That's all I have.
I don't want to be in the first one to the first four rows on the aisle.
So the guys will pick me and I could be the monkey.
Good guy.
I'm being honest.
I'd like to be up there and be the monkey, because I kid you a big detest, like
anybody else.
But, no, I mean, I would like to see it down low would be incredible too, just to be closer
to those sites and everything.
No, we're not complaining.
We were at home.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
This is just the opinion of what you have.
There's nothing wrong with that.
For me, I would definitely see this again, but I would only want to sit a little bit closer
than we did this go around.
And what I mean by that is we sat behind the soundboards, I'd like to sit right in front
of them.
That's about where I'd like to be, because I think that you want to sit far enough
back so that you can see everything, but you don't want to sit too far back where you're
not seeing enough.
Yeah, you don't want to, you don't want to cut off your peripheral vision too, but you
don't want to have to crane your head back and forth too much.
But I recommend to, if you could get in to see this thing, it's worth it.
You don't want to do it fast if you're local if you're in the Dallas Fort Worth
area.
It only shows.
It's a tomorrow.
Yeah, it's a father's day.
June 21st.
Yeah.
It is called certain dreams, jungle fantasy.
Next again in the city, everybody in ATT back Oregon went spearfunk fighting this thing.
They're so good to us.
More better than they ever have to.
Totally.
I didn't think that's the one to do before we do the plug gentlemen.
I'm really hoping that at some point the holiday one comes around.
Oh, I'd like to do it.
Yeah, there's like five other.
Oh, no, there's more than that.
Okay, there's more than that.
But apparently they're going to really do a big focus on holidays this year.
Apparently they're going to do a PBS televised special this holiday season.
Oh, really?
So I'd really love to see something like that come to town and then experience that in person.
So if any of these travel to your area, any of them, check them out because I get your
tea.
The other ones probably be ghosted as good as this thing.
No, yeah.
All right.
Show you the plugs.
Yes, sir.
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