.::News::. >> Pop Culture 
Tools: Print | E-mail a Friend | Add your comment
[On the scene] Members stand in the theater
February 7, 2008
by Julie Seabaugh
Cirque and Le Reve offer plentiful tomfoolery onstage at Onyx
If one bit of sketchery best represented Your New Best Friends—last Tuesday’s Clown Cabaret music, dance and tomfoolery-fueled spectacle courtesy of Cirque du Soleil and Le Reve performers—it was the final number before the 2:15 a.m. intermission.
As a woman screamed over the Onyx Theater sound system, the bald head of Wayne Wilson poked into view through the closed black curtain. His shoulders and torso followed until he flopped, outfitted with a flesh-toned bodysuit and plastic genitalia, onto the floor. Daniel Passer and John Gilkey were similarly birthed to ever-intensifying shouts. Finally lying in a row, the blank-faced triplets were introduced by a male announcer-type voice as “The Newbies!” With a jazz refrain building, the packed audience of 100 palpably close-knit fellow Strip performers, friends and supporters began clapping in time as the three followed simple yet hilarious choreography: rolling over, kicking their legs in the air and sitting up. But as newborns are wont to do, they soon needed to relieve their small bladders. On the audience. To the refrains of Young at Heart.
How else can $10 get a paying customer the (water)works in this town? Where else but the local-theater-hub-within-a-Commercial-Center-Plaza-fetish-shop could host the monthly production? And how else, amid the delighted, gasping shrieking, could the three top themselves by rising, training their streams upon each other, then the audience once again with greater force, higher arches and looks of pure artistic contentment on their now-grinning faces?
>more articles from this author
>more Pop Culture articles
No entries
No comments has been posted to this article yet
Add your comments
Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry; irrelevant or purely promotional comments may be removed. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.
.::The Intersection::.
[Culture] An untimely death?
With the closing of the Guggenheim and struggles in the Downtown community, is art dead in Vegas?
The atmosphere is lively inside of the Guggenheim Hermitage on the last Wed...
>more
[Freaky] Cat-aclysm
Thousands of feral felines patrol Vegas and ... keep it green. Really.
By Danny Axelrod
Colonies of feral, aka wild, cats are ov...
>more
>more the intersection articles
.::Pop Culture::.
Mock the vote
Move over, Britney and Lindsay—Hillary, Barack and McCain are taking over
Lindsay Lohan hasn’t carjacked an SUV in months. Nicole Richie’s formerly e...
>more
The flowering of humanity
Oprah encourages all of us to awaken the rhododendron within
All last week, in every country on the planet, people of all ages, astrolog...
>more
>more pop culture articles