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The "O" Source: WIkipedia

Last month, the year ended on a very entertaining note when me and a couple of grad school friends stepped in to see the one of the greatest entertainment shows I’ve ever witnessed in my life. Cirque Du Soleil’s – the “O” in Bellagio, Las Vegas.

A concoction of a hundred elements – dance postures, music, contortionists, scuba divers, synchronized swimmers, acrobats, trapeze artists, clowns, gymnasts – performers of many kinds and The Stage itself. People jumping down from 20 feet, and performers walking on water right the next minute, water deep enough to row a boat in, then water just shallow enough for performers to walk on without their ankles being submerged, and the costumes – purportedly costing nearly $11,000 per each performer (numbering up to 60) – The “O” was exhilarating, the music just hauntingly beautiful.

Upon more research I found this information about the technical aspects of the show -

[C]irque du Soleil reports that by the time O opened on October 19, 1998, nearly 500 people had devoted over 400,000 man-hours to the preproduction and production phases of the show alone, not counting the time spent on the construction of the theatre. The production process for O began in 1996 at Cirque’s home base in Montreal, where both the performers and designers faced the daunting challenge of working with so much H20. In fact, the name of the show is a phonetic version of eau, the French word for water, and every prop and costume had to prove its resistance to the harshness of a liquid environment.

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And a sample of the sound track ‘Terre Aride’ – below.

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