'Love' Gets Alarm at Media Show
June 28, 2006 | 10:42
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I saw "Love" last night but all media are being asked by Cirque to embargo reviews until Friday morning. I obviously don't like being asked to hold a story about a show I've seen. But I am going to respect the embargo. I am not entirely comfortable with this decision, I admit. There is a part of me that feels like I should always keep this blog in real time. But this time I am going to settle for a Vegas version of real time. Besides I want to see "Love" again before I write about it as there was an interruption in the show I saw: an emergency alarm went off inside the Mirage showroom. "Love" had just started and the performers onstage could not hide how irritated and dispirited the alarm made them. As the music cut out, the dancers stopped, the aerialists were left dangling, and slowly they all headed offstage.
A guy arriving late said: "Osama must be here."
Interestingly, none of the performers seemed at all surprised or panicked. I shared this with them. Why? I had seen it happen to these performers in this theater already. A little more than a month ago I blogged on the Buffet about a media preview performance of three numbers from the show. During that preview the same alarm went off. I wish I could remember if it was the same song — maybe the fog or some other element in the performance accidentally triggers the alarm.
(Photo: Sarah Gerke / For The Times)
