CIRQUE DI SOLEOL PLUS

Cirque du Soleil paid US$2,500 (equivalent to $3,011 in 2021) a day plus expenses to rent the arena.

The crew moved into the facility on February 28, 2010, and stayed for a couple of months.

They chose the Amway Arena, located in Orlando, Florida. Lacking enough space at the Montréal headquarters, the company looked around North America for a suitable place. To fully rehearse for Zarkana, Cirque du Soleil needed to find a facility large enough to accommodate a space similar in size to that of Radio City Music Hall. On April 30, 2016, Zarkana closed to provide space for a new convention hall at the Aria. The show replaced the Cirque du Soleil resident production Viva Elvis, which had closed in August 2012 at the Aria Resort. įollowing Zarkana's successful run in Moscow, the show started residency at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on November 9, 2012. The title Zarkana is a fusion of the words 'bizarre' and 'arcana', referring to the strange aura and atmosphere of this place and its inhabitants. As he cried and begged the gods for her return, he was plunged into a world inhabited by surreal creatures. The show was marketed as a reinvention of the variety show, with a story about a magician in an abandoned theatre who had lost his love and his magic. It premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 29, 2011, and later toured to the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow and the Madrid Arena in Madrid. It began as a touring show in 2011 and was converted to a resident show in Las Vegas in late 2012. Zarkana was a Cirque du Soleil stage production written and directed by François Girard. Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada (residential starting October 25, 2012)

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