Cirque du Soleil is Back in Town

[innerSpaceman]

Cirque du Soleil's traveling show "Corteo" has finally reached Southern California, and will be here for a few months. Go see it. It's terrific.

They've set up the yellow and blue big top in the parking lot of the Great Western (fka) Forum. Staring the first week in November, they'll be somewhere in Orange County.

That may bring it closer to some of you, but I wouldn't wait. Corteo's already 2 years old, and the newest of their traveling shows, "Kooza," opens in San Francisco before year's end. Once a new show comes out, the last one is official "old."


Corteo is a beautiful piece about a clown's dream of his own funeral. Borrowing liberally from the dreamlike feeling of "O," yet exhibiting perhaps the most "circusy" of acts since the troupe's beginnings in L.A. some 20 years ago, "Corteo" is Italianate lovely and acrobaciting - and another Cirque triumphant feast for all 12 senses.