![]() None of this would matter as much if Angel had a compelling live-stage presence. And while Cirque’s poetic imagery at its best can leave you rubbing your eyes and holding your breath, spectators here are more likely to find themselves stifling a yawn or wincing with embarrassment. But there’s little that expresses something interesting or unique about Angel as an artist, or a person. There’s a sequence in which a straitjacketed Angel frees himself while spinning upside down above the audience and a couple of big, loud production numbers that play like excerpts from an aging heavy metal band’s reunion tour. Whenever the manic pacing starts to flag, a posse of clowns in punk-Edwardian drag tumble on stage to mug, break-dance or shriek high-pitched gibberish. ![]() those rabbits, some beautifully stylized, and others far scarier than anything encountered by Alice in Wonderland or Grace Slick. In a later scenario Angel gets sliced in half with an electric blade, his oozing intestines visible through the smoky atmospherics. These include a sinister troupe of dancing rabbits who, in one early sequence, tear Angel’s parboiled “corpse” apart and dance, exultantly hoisting his severed limbs and torso. This propels him into deep hallucinatory space where our Siegfriedian hero must confront demons and angels that stalk his imagination. “Believe’s” framing device is that Angel accidentally receives a 6-million-volt jolt of electricity that fries off most of his face (a spectacle captured by an ever-present video camera). (If you’re worried about spoilers or have a weak stomach, flip now to the comics page.)Īngel then materializes in torn jeans and a dark pullover, and warms up the audience with a bit of banter (“I feel your love!”) before he and co-writer/director Serge Denoncourt lay out the show’s central conceit. Keeping faith with the Las Vegas adage that nothing succeeds like overkill, the production opens with a video montage of Angel’s greatest hits, immolations, levitations, self-mutilations and assorted suicidal tendencies. Indeed, the smeared blood and entrails are piled high and deep throughout “Believe,” the most death-obsessed show to emerge from Sin City since “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” Yet “Believe” suggests less an artistic marriage made in accounting heaven than a shotgun wedding of clashing sensibilities in which the shotgun messily discharges en route to the altar. The multimillion-dollar production, which its backers hope will play at the Luxor casino until sometime around election day 2028, is nominally a collaboration by Angel, né Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, the talented illusionist and star of A&E’s “Criss Angel Mindfreak,” and Cirque du Soleil, the Montreal-based franchisers of whimsical, breathtakingly acrobatic entertainments. This event is recommended for ages 10+.If Criss Angel were blindfolded, straitjacketed, run over by a steamroller, locked in a steel box and dumped from a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean, he still might be easier to salvage from disaster than “Criss Angel: Believe,” the gloomy, gothic muddle of a show that officially lurched into being on Halloween night like some patched-together Frankenstein’s monster. For groups of 10 or more, please call 86. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster, by calling 85 or in-person at the Criss Angel Theater box office. “But most of all, we’re gonna have a great time together – and who knows I may pick you for a demonstration!”Ĭriss Angel MINDFREAK® – There’s nothing in the world like it… Are you ready?Ĭriss Angel MINDFREAK performs nightly Wednesday through Sunday. ![]() “I guarantee that you’ll never see anything like it for the rest of your life,” says Criss. With billions of online views, Criss also performs his most-viewed demonstrations – like his mind-blowing signature “flying” levitation, recently awarded the “greatest illusion of all time” (G.O.A.T) by Vanish Magazine (the world’s largest magic publication). ![]() The all-new 90-minute live spectacular is a groundbreaking experience that integrates the most sophisticated, cutting-edge lighting, video, pyro, and sound technologies – more than the biggest pop star’s concert – and boasts more than 50 of Criss’ most iconic illusions (including many from his hit television series Mindfreak and specials premiering live for the first time!). MINDFREAK, named “the #1 magic show of all time!” by the Las Vegas Sun, is a fully immersive, revolutionary concert of magic and illusions unlike anything the world of entertainment has ever seen. \"The Magic Event of a Lifetime!\" - Huffington PostĪfter more than two decades dominating the world of magic, legendary superstar magician Criss Angel presents his visionary illusions in a theatrical marvel designed to overload your senses in “the magic event of a lifetime” ( Huffington Post).
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