Cirque du Soleil: Difference between revisions

* [[The Rival]] - In the U.S., the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, especially now that Cirque has shows on the arena tour circuit. Ringling Bros., which almost always performs in arenas, is the epitome of traditional circus and uses animals, something Cirque eschews with the exception of doves in ''Believe''. Ringling presents three different tours that are each revamped with a new "edition" every one-to-two years, as opposed to each Cirque show being a unique, stand-alone production that can run indefinitely.

* [[Scenery Porn]] - The resident shows are crazy about this; the tours are pretty too in smaller-scale ways.

* [[The Show Must Go On]] - Despite horrible critical reception, shows such as ''Criss Angel Believe'' and ''Banana Shpeel'' continued to perform—the latter, after being burnt by the press in its Chicago tryout, went through its ''second'' retool to go on to New York as planned and after ''that'' was unsuccessful, attempted a North American tour. Only its poor reception in Toronto, its first stop, brought the show to an end. As for ''Believe'', it had a substantial [[Retool]] that dropped most of the Cirque-based elements and is still running.

** On the other hand, from day to day this trope is averted—despite the general consensus that the circus will go on stage no matter what the circumstances, Cirque stops its shows if there is an accident involving technology or their personnel.