iTunes Exclusive Episode Cavalia Odysseo

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Whatever we do one of these, it's always to review something in this specific episode.
Our 79th.
iTunes exclusive is no different.
Today we are here to review something we've never done before.
We've done stage productions.
We've done TV shows.
We've done movies.
But I don't know that we've ever done anything under the big top.
Actually, I do know because if anybody would know, would be me.
True.
I would hope we are here to review with you today.
The show called.
Is it Kavaya?
Well, Kavaya is the umbrella name for it.
Like, certainly.
Yeah, yeah.
And this is the actual show.
This is their second production.
Kavaya was the first and it Kavaya's Odysseus.
Well, and the guy that runs this whole bit.
It was one of the founders of Circus.
He is a, he is a Cirque alum, so to speak.
Basically, this is the largest traveling tent in the world.
And you really can't, it's kind of like the castle with this in the world.
I can't really describe it to you.
You have to see the size of this tent.
It is ridiculous.
And it is, you could call it Cirque de Soleil with horses.
It's a really the best way to describe this show.
It's, though, they say, over 60 horses involved in this deal.
Over 300 costumes for the people working.
And it's not all horse tricks.
No, no.
There's also acrobatics involved.
There's music.
There's multimedia.
All kinds of things going on in this thing.
I would say it's probably about.
Oh, what would you say maybe 60% human performers?
Because there is, there's a lot more focus on the acrobatics of the aerial acrobatics.
And maybe 65, 35.
Maybe, I mean, they're slightly more for the humans than the horses.
And there's not, I mean, most of the times if you go to see something like Cirque de Soleil,
there's a theme.
This really has no actual theme except you're going around the world
and you're seeing different cultures being represented.
I mean, there's no real storyline.
And they blur the lines between a dream world and the real world.
Yes.
And the way I took it, it's not so much explained this way, but the way I took it,
it was almost like you're seeing the world the way the horse is seen it.
Oh, okay.
That's kind of the way I interpret it.
That's not a bad way to look at it.
I mean, I may be wrong.
That may not be what they're doing, but that's how it feels.
It doesn't make you wrong if that's your interpretation.
True.
But you know, I could be way, I'll put this way.
I could be way off base.
But that's kind of what it felt like for me is like, this is the way the horse is see the world.
It is currently being featured in Frisco, Texas, which is just north of Dallas
until February the 22nd.
But if you're not a member of the empire locally, that doesn't mean that you can't get something out of this particular episode,
because this is a traveling show all over the world.
Now, this particular show has only been in existence.
I believe October 2012.
2011.
It deported Montreal in 2011.
They went to October 2011.
Right.
I knew it was October.
I knew it was somewhere in there.
But we're here to talk to you about it today.
First of all, thanks to our friends, Joanne Holt.
Over there, we're down somewhere in musical.
She's going to go to hooked up with this deal.
God bless that woman.
Yes.
And a lot of things coming down the pike.
Maybe we'll talk about later.
Maybe not in this particular episode.
But first class organization.
No kidding.
Taking care of us.
And what I thought was interesting.
And we'll actually go through this thing.
Even before we walked in the door.
Like you could tell that everybody involved in this production was traveling with the production.
Uh-huh.
You know, there were very thick French accents, even with the people like at the ticket counter.
Yeah, absolutely.
Which I respect.
Because, you know, yeah, you want local cops to be security and whatnot.
But you really want that family feel that everybody's in this thing together.
Yeah.
There's a reason every premier isn't Canada.
Yeah.
They're based out of Canada.
Yeah.
So I do want to start with your expectations for this were different than mine.
I want you to talk about that.
Well, and, and I wrote a little bit about it in my written review.
Which is where?
Huh?
Which is where?
On theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
Um.
I grew up in a horse culture town.
I mean, where we are, where we are based is pretty much.
Yeah.
You are born bread.
You're born and raised here.
Uh-huh.
It is a rodeo town.
We have a rodeo parade every year.
The rodeo was also world famous.
The world famous in the ski rodeo.
Indeed it is.
If, if you listen very carefully while watching American sniper at the very beginning,
you hear this town mention.
Oh, really?
Yes, you did.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Um.
At least I'm pretty sure it is sound like it.
If it's not, my ears are playing tricks on me.
Uh.
It is a, it is a staple of this town.
It's unavoidable.
You know, the, the, the, the, the rodeo has grown exponentially over the years.
It's gotten much bigger.
They remodel the arena.
They thought hotels around it.
It's, it's the cold.
And that's a nice, that, that hampton in right there's nice.
Yeah.
It really is.
Yeah.
They're convention center over there too.
I mean, it, it has been a, a huge, uh, part of the economy of this town.
Yet not a one horse town.
Not a one horse town.
They're several horses.
So the horse thing just, it never really appealed to me.
I'm just not a country boy.
I never have been.
You've never been accused of that by me.
No.
Um, so this kind of thing just didn't have a lot of appeal to me.
And you kind of had to badger me to be.
See, for me, I am a huge fan of horses.
I spent some time at a summer camp where there was a horsemanship camp.
And I got the opportunity.
Not very much because I was handling the wilderness camp part of it.
But I did get a couple of opportunities to spend time at the horsemanship camp.
And I've horses are such amazing graceful creatures.
They're highly intelligent.
And they're land based dolphins.
Yeah.
I mean, they're just awesome.
And so I was, I didn't know much about it going in.
I purposely didn't do any research.
I knew it was, there was like a Cirque de Soleil feel to it.
But I really didn't do a lot of research because I wanted to go in as cold as I could.
Which is, I know that we like to be informed about our subjects before we view them.
But in a way, I think it kind of takes away from them.
The, the magic that could happen.
But I still had, I still had high hopes.
Because I just, I, I just love that Circus atmosphere.
And being a kid that didn't get to go to, you know, the highfalutin circuses as a kid.
You know, I've been to three Cirque type shows now.
So, you know, I'm kind of making up for lost time.
And seeing, I'm on the other side of that coin.
I've never been to a Cirque production, but I've been a Barnman Bailey seven eight times.
So we, we both had our own level of expectation of what we were going to see.
To me, this was nothing like a circus.
So we walked in, found our seats.
Great seats.
Again, thank you, Joanne.
You're better dressed than you ever have to be.
Uh, I wasn't just the seating.
You have that expectation of when you go to something on a circus under a big top.
You're going to be sitting on bleachers that you hope you don't get splinters in your took us.
These were quality well constructed seats.
It was like you were sitting in a small auditorium.
It holds just under 2300 people, which is a good size.
And there's not a bad seat in the whole house.
No, there really is because the, the seats literally, you know, are up towards the stage.
So there's not like poles that would block your view.
I looked all around.
I couldn't see a bad sight line.
No, it was open there the whole way around inside that tent.
And the staging area is huge.
I mean, the staging area is probably bigger than the most of the houses on my block together.
Which gives the horses and the trainers and the acrobatts.
Lots of room to maneuver.
Yeah, I think they said it like, if, if they flooded the thing, it would hold like 80,000 gallons.
Oh, really.
Oh, okay.
So let's get to the show itself because we've, we've now gotten to our city.
We've now gotten to our seats, you know, as as Terlow once had a got my popcorn.
Yes, you did.
I did literally.
And so let's talk about the show.
Tell me what you thought of the show.
Given that my expectations were so low indeed.
And I, and that it seems like an unfair way of putting it because.
I don't know because I didn't have any expectations really.
It's just, but I have, having no expectations is less than having a low expectations.
Yeah, I guess so because, you know, I've seen my share of, if you'll pardon the old,
worn out pun, dog and pony shows over the course of my life.
Fair enough.
And just been like, okay.
So that's a horse and he's.
Trotting in place.
Okay.
I, and I appreciate the discipline and the training that goes in to get a horse to do something.
Training the horses is a tough deal to do.
Right.
But it doesn't necessarily entertain me all that much.
It's, it's impressive.
It's impressive feet to know that it, the time that went into it.
That's far entertainment value.
It just didn't really exist for me.
But the world that they create, you, you get,
Gosh, transported somewhere that exists somewhere in the back of somebody's incredibly gifted mind.
It's, it's very ethereal, very spiritual.
The music I kept comparing to like a mix of enigma going and taking salsa lessons.
Fair enough.
Very, very soothing, very relaxing.
It can get your blood pumping when they wanted to get your blood pumping and they can just make you forget that you are even in an arena surrounded by 2300 people.
It feels like you're the only one there.
It, it feels like you're just being.
Reach out to.
And taking somewhere that is a much better place than the crap existence that you work.
The grinding out of daily existence in before you walked in the door.
And the music is played live, which stunned me.
I remember looking at you once we looked up over our shoulder and we saw like,
How would you describe this like just like bridge wings kind of that come out over the stage?
Skywalks kind of is what they look like.
They resemble skywalks.
They were just kind of like a little booth on either side of the stage.
But they're floating up above the crowd.
And they're not above the stage, they're to the side of the stage.
So like you saw like, no, it was much like when we weren't there.
But when we went and saw a blue man group, it was the same kind of a deal.
Where they're up and away from the stage and their own little cages,
but these are more like mosquito netting than cages.
That's what I thought.
It wasn't glass.
It was more like, you know, screened or material.
Kind of like it was with ladies, but rather than above the performers, it was just to the side of the performers.
You're like, you're acoustic guitarist and you're violinist on stage left.
And you had your percussion and keyboards.
And occasionally the vocal soloist stage right.
So you could, whatever was going on in there was very low lighting.
So you could see them, but it wasn't obvious.
They weren't like harsh lights on them.
Which kind of lit to the dream like quality that the show kept, you know, as a constant.
Absolutely breathtaking as far as the story that they tell without really telling a story.
Because there is no dialogue.
Right.
No dialogue at all.
And any lyrics out of there are all in Spanish, I guess.
There was some French there was some African.
Well, I'm just thinking of the primary soloist and seeing why she was singing in Spanish.
But because it sounded like, you know, the music had a Latin flavor to it when she would sing.
Now, of course, whenever the African tribe was singing,
you could definitely tell that was an African tribal type beat and rhythm to it.
But I was breathless.
I was absolutely stunned at what we were seeing and what we were hearing.
Just the whole experience is unlike anything I've ever been to.
What I'd talk about at number one is that their tradition of playing the music live.
Because that's, you, it's necessary.
Well, yeah.
I know, I know that's necessary.
But it's also something that you've got to be on all the time.
Uh-huh.
And these guys were.
They really truly were that they're all having to pay attention because if a horse doesn't hit its mark,
it kind of vamp for a little bit until that horse gets back on track.
Otherwise, they probably, they may even go with a, a pretty recorded track.
But it kind of is impossible.
I thought that the flow of it was very, very good.
I never felt like when the awkward mass came out.
Oh, this is just filler time.
I never felt that way.
There was, there was an absolute flow to it.
The guys in the moon boots, I thought, were great.
Uh-huh.
Very, very athletic.
And that's what I don't think I loved about it is everything everything was locked in.
What was it you said?
There isn't a, I've got more body fat than everybody in the show.
Come on.
There's no doubt in my mind.
And then I will stand by that.
Uh-huh.
And that includes a horse.
That's true.
That's true.
Because they're lean.
You can tell how much pride these people take in the show, especially the horse trainers.
There's a love.
There is, there is a bond between these trainers and there.
I thought the multimedia aspect of it was phenomenal.
Oh my god.
The huge video screen that was behind this stage, which kind of gave you the setting of
where they were doing everything.
There's set pieces that raise and lower.
And what of my personal favorite things in this modern day of circus is the art form where you're
basically wrapping yourself up in cloth and you're, like, pink did it on her last tour.
Where you're basically hung from something, but you're wrapped up in strips of cloth.
Oh, the aerial artist that you were talking about.
Yeah.
That's one of my favorite things.
And they did that.
Because they looked like angels when they do it.
And it's so it's just, I never was distracted from the show.
Like the show kept my attention.
I was never like, okay, where is the chase and how can I cut to it?
Yeah.
Like this was, it was everything was moving constantly.
Yeah.
No fat on the bone.
It was lean.
It was well-oiled.
But it didn't feel, it didn't feel slickly produced.
Even though it was slickly produced.
It's very well put together.
But it didn't, it didn't feel like they were evoking an emotion for, for the sake of
Voking an emotion.
It just kind of happens organically.
Right.
You can't help but get caught up in it.
I, I found myself, I found my throat locking up in my eyes welling up.
And I don't know why.
I really couldn't figure out.
Oh, sir.
That's what they, I guess.
I mean, it's just, it, you become so overwhelmed emotionally by the,
the, the playful nature that these horses exhibit when they get out there.
And another thing that I mentioned in my review is whenever they start just rolling
around kicking their feet up in the air, like a puppy waiting to get its belly scratch.
And I said, these, these suckers are showing off.
They know what they're doing.
They're not just well trained animals.
They're showing off.
They're having fun with this.
And some of the feet of these people do when riding the horses always fun.
Good night.
It just, the people that were riding two horses, one foot on each saddle.
And you realize there's nothing holding those feet.
Down.
No horses.
No horses.
I mean, there's a saddle there, but that's it.
But there's nothing hooked to the saddle.
They're standing up in the saddle.
Everything was dead on point.
And everything was beautiful and everything worked.
You know, and you, there were times where you could see your horses are going to be horses.
Yeah.
And there were times where one of them was like, you know what?
I'm not going this way.
I'm doing my own thing right now.
And they, they handled it so, because they've been doing this forever.
But they handled it so well.
Well, shoot.
I just wouldn't miss a beat every now and then they'd go, wait.
Let me do that again.
And then look at the audience like, ah.
The audience totally bought in, which I thought was great.
It's, yeah.
They don't, they don't look at it as a mistake.
They're like, we'll do that better next time.
And my effect.
We're going to do that right now.
And it was, it was a joy to watch.
All right.
So I think we've pretty much covered it.
Let's get to the final analysis.
Now, normally, are the, when we review a movie.
Our final analysis is a little bit different.
But the basis is still the same.
It's a two question process.
Question number one is, would you see this show again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, in this case, the question becomes,
how far would you be willing to go price wise to see this show?
Instead of, how would you see it again?
Because it's not like it's going to be playing forever.
So Chad, would you see this show again?
Yep.
I don't have to think about that.
Fair enough.
How far would you be willing to go to see this show?
The limit.
Whatever they would allow.
I've never been so flabbergasted by a production.
Since we started doing this.
Wow.
That's high phrase from you.
I'm serious.
I mean, as much as I loved Phantom when we saw it,
I was by Mama Mia, which is another thing.
I kind of had to get dragged to when we saw it.
Nothing compared to the feeling that I got when this thing was in full gear.
And I would love to experience this again.
I want to take everybody in my family to go see this.
I want to take people that just feel bad about themselves.
People that aren't having a good day.
I'm like, you want to make your, you want to uplift your spirits a little bit.
Go to Adicio.
That's, that's the medicine.
That's secure for what else you.
I would agree with you.
I would definitely go see this show again.
And I'd say it once a week if I could.
I would go as far as my pocketbook would let that's what I'm talking about.
You know, it's, again, it's, I, we will say this.
These tickets are not inexpensive.
Bring your checkbook.
You know, and there's different prices depending on if you go on the weekend or during the week.
They also have special prices for two different levels of kids ages two,
which I thought was great.
There's not a bad seat in the whole house.
So just because you feel like you're buying the cheap O seats, doesn't mean you're going to be sitting outside.
You're still going to get a great view of things.
They also offer VIP packages where you can meet with the cast after the show.
It just depends on what you want to do.
And this thing is showing in first go Texas until February the 22nd.
Their, the website is kavalia.net.
It's C.A.V.
A-L-I-A.
So you can check out where they're going to be because again, this is a traveling show.
So if you don't live in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
And this thing's coming to your town.
Go.
Please.
Please go.
And please take our word for it.
This show is amazing.
There's nothing about, there's something for the whole family.
There's, there's not a bad thing I can say about the entire presentation.
Beginning to end from a time we pulled into the parking lot.
So at a time we got back on the fair.
It's a perfect date night show to attend.
Absolutely.
Uh, just bravo to everybody involved in this thing.
You have set a new bar.
You ain't lying, brother.
Thanks again to Joanne Holden.
Her whole organization for giving us the opportunity to check this out.
We, we have so many great friends of this show that take care of it.
Yeah, we do.
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