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A breathtaking array of acts and elaborate stunts that defy imagination AND gravity - stuff that Cirque du Soleil©® is internationally renowned for - comes to Orlando as La Nouba! They mean it when they say, "To see it is to know the color of imagination."

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La Nouba - the color of imagination!

The high wire act in La Nouba was inspired by an incident that occurred in downtown Manhattan. One night, a tight rope walker stretched a high wire between the Twin Towers and decided to test his skills (no offence to New Yorkers, but.... what a flake!!) The performance stopped traffic in the entire Financial/Wall Street district. So, in La Nouba:

  • the Twin Towers are represented by the two on-stage Twin Towers. (btw, happen to notice that the orchestra is housed in the towers?! You don't see 'em till the end taking-of-the-bows and the soloist joins them then.)

  • props such as the tree, park bench, and street lamp represent the Manhattan city streets below.

  • the man who walks in with the bike and stops, represents traffic.

  • the Cast passing by represent pedestrians stopping to watch.

    • La Nouba is Cirque du Soleil's third resident show (Mystère in 1994 & 'O' in 1998 in Vegas). Fourth one's in Biloxi (Alegría) @ Beau Rivage. I think that's how you spell it, but I've been known to be wrong before : )

    Click here to get to an official set of trivia/facts & figures about Cirque du Soleil©®

    (The little arrows point out wheelchair seats)

    This is the theater's seating plan, but don't bother trying to request specific seats over the phone when making reservations with the Disney Reservation Center (407) 939-7600; the seats are auto-assigned by the system & not operator driven. You can then locate your assigned seats on this chart.
    The theater capacity is 1671, with the really icky seats sold last. As a walk up. Right before show time. If the show's not sold out, that is. Icky would be near the stage.
    Yes, seriously.
    So, quite unlike a Michael Bolton concert, the further up & away from the stage you are, the better the view. The vertical center of the stage happens to be somewhere in rows DD & EE in the upper tier. In real life, that would be 4.5 storey tall. And since the aerial acts happen around that area, the performance is at eye level for folks sitting in those rows. Cool, eh?!

    Also, don't mention to Disney anything along the lines of 'if there's any GOOD seats left', or 'if the seats you got are GOOD' or the 'n' word (i.e. noseblead seats!) The whole theater was planned, dug, designed, constructed, painted AND created just for La Nouba. Right down to those pretty maroon seats! Why on earth would they put a bad seat in there?! So be ready to have this fact pointed out if you ever mention any doubt as to the GOODNESS of any seat in their theater. They, of couse, don't get annoyed but put it real nicely as "there's no bad seats in that theater". Now, of course, you may wonder what I meant with the 'real icky' seats that I'd mentioned. Well, that classification happens to be 'icky' or 'icky free' according to my personal preference. Which luckily, is completely in sync with the order of preference programmed in their seat selling sequence. Pretty lucky, won't you say?!

    : )

    (~.~)

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