Enter: Cirque Dreams - Stage West
Move over Vegas; Palm Springs to premiere Cirque Dreams.
Okay, let's admit it: Vegas has gotten overpriced and over-hyped. Try getting a reasonably priced ticket to a show? Fat chance, because the wanna-be high rollers will make it so tough you'll have to sell your soul to a pitboss, or pawn your first born to see a decent show. What once was a great place to go play and see a show isn't reasonable any more.
Enter Palm Springs.
You would think I lived in Palm Springs, or was one of the towns paid PR people-- I'm not. However I have always loved the PS area, since I was lured to spend several Thankgivings, Christmas and New Years holidays at "The Ranch." I try to go out to the desert at least a couple times a year, to visit the Spa, see friends or a show. And of course I go to shop and have dinner at Tony's. It's a ritual I honestly look forward to reviving.
Beginning next month, Cirque Dreams will debut at the newly constructed Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre sometime after Christmas. Ticket prices will be a reasonable $45 to $59. I can dig that.
The 90-minute family geared performance will be filled with color, dance, acrobatic spectacles spun of silk, loose contortionists, music and light. And the reviews of previous productions have been stellar.
Cirque Dreams will be located in the new 1000-seat tent-like theater where the Desert Fashion Plaza used to be located. The City of Palm Spring has bet $300,000 on loaning Neil Goldberg and Cirque Productions, and Dick Taylor Productions, that the 3 year contracted run of Cirque' will be a winner too. The loan is being paid back by returning $1 of every ticket to the City of Palm Springs.
For more info: sign up at http://www.pspavilion.com/.
