“We’ve done a lot of trimming and tightening with the transitions,” he explained. Overall, “Drawn to Life” has a better flow, and Bennett was pleased I had noticed. The letter sets the plot in motion as Julie enters the world of animation to honor her deceased dad, a Disney animator, in an artistic examination of grief, legacy and healing. Every audience member should have a bit of a unique story.” “The idea is now the audience can use their imagination more. “It was so linear and literal it gave everything to the audience,” was Bennett’s explanation of why the opening was refined. The focus then moves from the words to the emotion reflected in Julie. Icarian Games is the newest addition to the show, featuring acrobats from Ethiopia that pay homage to Disney animators drawing from live subjects as reference. That has been addressed right at the top of the show - where a long letter written to the young protagonist, Julie, from her late father has been artistically truncated.Īcrobats from “Drawn to Life,” the Cirque du Soleil Disney show, give a special performance of Icarian Games in celebration of World Circus Day at Disney Springs on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The storytelling has also been refined one of my earlier critiques was how Disney’s straightforward storytelling style is at odds with Cirque’s more evocative take. “We did a great job honoring Disney but we might have lost a little of the Cirque themes.” “We wanted to make the music more Cirque-like,” Bennett said. The melodic Disney snippets remain, but are scaled back to serve as a pleasing garnish instead of competition for the main course. The music was one of the areas in which the Disney-Cirque partnership felt out of balance, and the changes have helped in that regard.īenoit Jutras‘s score was liberally sprinkled with Disney tunes in the original - but at the expense of creating its own memorable melodies. A graceful hand-to-hand act, with additional theatrical tricks, creates a touching emotional sequence between a woman (Myriam Deraiche) and her late husband (Samuel Charlton) in “Drawn to Life” from Cirque du Soleil and Disney.
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