Cirque du Soleil: Kooza
Prices
Tickets: $55–$125, kids $38.50–$87.50, students and seniors $49.50–$112.50 (Tue–Thu only)
Description
Kooza, among Cirque's most recent traveling tented spectacles, has been pitched as a return to the company's unvarnished circus roots. The machinery is front and center. The simple set design is composed of a huge, shape-shifting curtain and a vaguely Indian, two-tiered mobile bandstand. The usual surreal narrative—as in the melancholic, Fellini-esque Corteo, seen here two years ago—has been scaled back. And there's a lot of audience-interactive clowning, much of it sophomoric. But the preternatural skill and athleticism of these elite circus studs—highlighted particularly in the giant, two-cylindered “Wheel of Death,” a terrifying contraption on which two acrobats orbit and defy gravity—are unparalleled.—Craig Keller
