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'O' Cirque du Soleil at Bellagio | 
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| Author: Veronique Vial
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 638870
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 12.3 x 9.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1576870944
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.309714
EAN: 9781576870945
ASIN: 1576870944
Publication Date: July 2001
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Product Description
Wildly popular and critically acclaimed celebrity (and Oprah!(tm)-appearing) photographer Veronique Vial is also the official photographer for Cirque du Soleil, the widely adored theatrical troupe that mixes traditional circus performance tropes with imaginative mysticism and exotic storytelling in sold-out performances worldwide. Vial captures the vivid color, breathtaking special effects, and mesmerizing costume, set design, and troupe performances--in and out of water (eau)--that are the hallmark of Cirque's new Vegas venue at the Bellagio. Vial's unique capacity to distill the childlike mystery and awe of 'O,' the most elaborate Cirque du Soleil production ever mounted, creates in effect a wonderfully transcendent book for kids and adults alike, complete with fantasy narrative. Harry Potter would approve.
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O - what a crying shame! February 8, 2005
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I just saw the water-themed "O" by Cirque du Soleil at the Bellagio in Las Vegas mere days ago and was utterly spellbound by the otherwordly experience. Afterwards I decided to check out the souvenir shop and perused this book there. What I found inside were a bunch of lack-luster photographs taken from the spectacular performance, but none of them actually capture the magic of seeing it happen before your very eyes, and what a marvel it is to behold upclose!
In short, these images don't do the production justice! I would not recommend this to anyone who's considering buying tickets for the continuously sold-out "O" and would like to get a taste of what your in for because this may disgcourage you, and that would be a crying shame. Just trust in all the people that have raved about how amazing the show is and buy this simply as memorabilia.
 Disappointing September 18, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book gives you almost no taste of what the show is like. It is a collection of beautiful but artsy fartsy pictures, capturing the photographers style rather than this amazing show. The bad poetry dramatically inserted as captions to the pictures continues the slightly pretensious path the book took.there are only TWO PAGES at the end of the book devoted to writing about the actual show. For a show that is completely groundbreaking and unique, that is far too little. It is almost all text that is available at the cirque site (an excelent site, as opposed to this book) To see what this book could have been, take a look at the book of "Pride Rock on Broadway: Julie Taymor's The Lion King". This is a book about an amazing, one- of- a- kind show, packed with quotes from the creators, concept drawings, beautiful photographs, ideas that were cut, technical diagrams and explanations of problems that arose during production and how the team solved them. It is a book that any person, and *especially* a theater person from any discipline would love. That is the kind of book that this could have been, and it isn't. If you want an artsy collection of photographs, this is for you. Otherwise, wait till you get a chance to actually see the show - it will be worth it!
Disappointing September 5, 2003
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
While the pictures in here are quite good (not fantastic), that's mostly what the book is all about. Pictures. There's no story behind each of them. It's quite pricey for pictures. I'd wait a while until it comes down in price. As for the show? It's the best show you will ever see in your lifetime. Trust me. I've seen a show or two before, and this is something special.
Cover Photo Deceiving of Contents of Other Photos August 20, 2003
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book appears as if ALL the photographs in it will be as outstanding as the cover picture but this is quite deceiving. Considering the quality of the show, price of the book, etc... much more effort and professionalism should have been put into the photography. Very disappointing with a handful of good photographs towards the end of the book.
 Great Pictures of the best show in the world June 6, 2001
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have just recived this book, and if you have ever seen "o" at The Bellagio and loved it and want good memories of it, this is the book you want! Buy this book if you love Cirque Du Soleil! I have seen the show 3 times and this a book of high quaility pictures taken from the show! Thanks
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