Heheh, likely the best male eye candy of our performance came before the show officially started. Performers out in the audience, carting around a coffin, were measuring various guests for a fit inside said coffin. At one point, they picked out a man so beautiful - I thought for sure he was a shill. But not so. Anyways, they lifted up his shirt to the neck, and oh my!
Beauty indeed!
(I saw the guy at intermission, and winked at him
)
My fave "illusion" came before the show, too. There's a curtain down over the stage when you arrive (oh, and I'll spoiler tag this, since it was a surprise to me)...
Spoiler:
It's a gauzy curtain that you can vaguely see through. there's a huge mirror on the stage, because you can make out the reflection of the audience, and the performers with the coffin. We were sitting close to the stage, so it was almost easier to follow the action in the reflection than to crane my head around to watch the coffin stuff.
But at one point, the coffin in the reflection headed straight for the rear of the audience, while the coffin in the audience was not moving!
I thought I was having an acid flashback. (
I was, after all, on LSD for many a Cirque performance.)
But when they raised the curtain, er, curtain
s, there was a "second" audience directly across. The stage was simply a narrow strip between two separate seating areas. Hahahaha!
(They did this same two-sided thing with the stadium show,
Delerium. I'm tired of it already. It inspires some interesting staging, but I like it when they can have a bit more of a stage set.)