Alegria: Difference between revisions

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: The Nostalgic Old Birds.

* [[Audience Participation]]: Twice in Act Two -- the White Singer dances with a male audience member during "The Ball", and another man is brought up to help the clowns with their take on the Russian bars segment. As well, various characters interact with people in the front rows from the preshow onward.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The White and Black Singers individually represent the good and bad qualities of the old order; only costume and hair color differentiates them visually.

* [[Costume Porn]]: This is one of the most lavishly costumed Cirque shows, especially among the tours.

** It was featured in ''Midnight Sun'', the company's 20th anniversary concert.

** In ''Delirium'' a rewritten, up-tempo version ("Novo Alegria") served as the finale.

** This is also the only Cirque song to appear in some form on all three of their [[Greatest Hits Album]] compilations.

* [[Hair Decorations]]: The White and Black Singers wear antennae-like ones to add a bit more whimsy to their looks.

* [[The Ingenue]]: The White Singer, so much. Beautiful, youthful, everyone adores her, and she has a touch of mischief in her as she brings a man from the audience onstage to dance with her at the start of Act Two.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: The cyr wheel performer's character turns out to be a youthful reflection of an Old Bird as seen in a "mirror" (the wheel).

* [[The Kingdom]]: What the setting is in the process of becoming.

* [[La Résistance]]: The Bronx.

* [[Love Letter Lunacy]]: Variation -- in an Act Two transitional bit, one of the clowns wants to give the White Singer a love letter (you can tell it's one because a little red heart-shaped balloon is attached to it), but is too shy to do so himself. He gives it to Fleur to deliver, but he'd rather keep it, and soon it's passing among a few other characters who want it as well before returning to its writer. He gives it to her as the show ends, and she accepts it.

* [[Man in White|Men In White]]: The Angels who perform the Russian bars act.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: The Nostalgic Old Birds' [http://www.richasi.com/Cirque/Alegria/index.html outfits] (scroll down page), which verge on parody.

* [[Reality Subtext]]: In the book ''20 Years Under the Sun'', set designer Michael Crete said the story of a battle for power was partially inspired by the [[wikipedia:Jamie Bulger|murder of Jamie Bulger]].

* [[Rewritten Pop Version]] / [[Rearrange the Song]]: Beyond "Novo Alegria", ''Delirum'' featured "Alone", a variation on "Querer". (Its entirely new English lyrics were about miserable loneliness, whereas the original's were about how joyous love can be.)

* [[Self-Parody]]: The Russian bars act is followed by two of the clowns mounting their own version of it, complete with applause-baiting posing to punctuate their feats. In a briefer gag earlier in the show, the third clown tries to impress the audience with his version of the fire-knife dance (using a candle instead of a flaming baton).

* [[City with No Name]]

* [[Driven to Suicide]] / [[Starts with a Suicide]]: A dual attempt, at that.

* [[Enemy Mime]]: In a complete reversal of the trope, the mime's the good-hearted protagonist. (And he speaks.)

* [[Executive Meddling]]: See [[Lull Destruction]] below. Also, originally the story wasn't going to involve a romance -- the film company insisted upon one to make it more appealing to audiences. It didn't quite do that (see [[Audience-Alienating Premise]]), but it doesn't come across as a [[Romantic Plot Tumor]] either.

* [[Rewritten Pop Version]]: "Mountain of Clothes" became "Time to Go" for ''Delirium''; along with ''Quidam'''s "Let Me Fall", it sounds closer to its original take than most of the tunes in that show do.

* [[The Show Must Go On]]: Beyond the [[All Part of the Show]] action Fleur takes to disrupt the lovers' reunion, he tries to hold on to this attitude after his daughter runs away, giving a speech to the performers before their next show explaining that they must put their problems aside to bring happiness to an audience that has problems of its own. His will fails him, and the show ''doesn't'' go on...

* [[The Stinger]]: Involving a cameo by the director; also a [[Brick Joke]].

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]]: Variant -- the Cafe Opera caters specifically to old and forgotten performers, and is even owned by one; while a melancholy place, the patrons can find support, comfort, and even romance with their peers.

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