Cirque do Soleil Comes to New York City…Permanently!
The New York Times reported that In February 2010 Cirque, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, plans to bring a new show to the Beacon Theater in Manhattan for a multiple-month run that it hopes will become an annual institution. And in 2011 Cirque is to establish a four-month summer extravaganza in Radio City Music Hall as a warm-weather counterweight to the “Christmas Spectacular” — sans Rockettes, but populated with acrobats and clowns.
These will be in addition to the company’s touring tent productions, which have played New York periodically since 1988; the most recent show, “Kooza,” opened on April 16 at Randalls Island and runs through June 21st.
Also continuing will be “Wintuk,” Cirque’s $20 million annual winter holiday show at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, which will be back in town November 11, 2009 – January 3, 2010.
Cirque has been trying to secure their own permanent space on Pier 40 – but negotiations came to stand still and both parties have walked away.
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