ON THE COVER
Just as the spectacular Cirque du Soleil was on the brink of becoming one of the world’s most popular entertainments, senior stage writer Jon Kaplan went to New York to get face time with some of the troupe’s performers.
The Cirque was already gaining renown for redefining the circus arts, taking the animals out – relying on human strengths instead – and putting narrative in. Since then, Cirque’s set up in Vegas and beyond, last week nearly stealing the show from the stars during the telecast of the Academy Awards. (Page 21 of the issue)
