www.cirquedusoleil.com\/OVO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThere are a hundred people on this show that travel full-time with \u2018OVO,\u2019 \u201d said Mallet, who worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. as a cultural reporter for 14 years prior to joining Cirque du Soleil. \u201cI think I was really drawn to the international aspect of the team. We have 25 different nationalities. That includes the 53 artists on stage. The rest is staff, technicians and others backstage. There\u2019s a whole world happening behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOVO\u201d is a large show that immerses the audience in a colorful insect world.<\/p>\n
The story centers around a mysterious egg (ovo, meaning \u201cegg\u201d in Portuguese) and the interactions of various insects, including a love story between a ladybug and a newcomer.<\/p>\n
The show premiered in 2009 under the famous Cirque du Soleil big top and has been traveling ever since. A few years ago, the show transitioned into arenas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just went through an actual restaging,\u201d Mallet said. \u201cAfter 15 years (traveling) around the world, the set needed a bit of TLC. It took over a year, but we changed the set itself. With that, we actually took that opportunity to add some new props and a new set design. We\u2019ve added some large flowers and large plants. That\u2019s really the goal. When you enter the arena, you kind of feel like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m getting into this ecosystem and getting into this bug world.\u2019 With that we also added three new acts, which also means new music, new characters and new costumes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe premiered it at the end of December 2024,\u201d said Mallet. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a brand new show. I would say the essence of it remains. It\u2019s still a show about insects. It\u2019s still a show about friendship, inclusion, diversity and all of that. However, if you (saw) it 10 years ago, you definitely would want to not miss it because there\u2019s a lot of new elements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like most Cirque du Soleil shows, the clowns drive the story, but the performers are awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n
From mighty crickets bouncing off trampolines to a hypnotic spider contorting inside her web, \u201cOVO\u201d exudes extraordinary showmanship. \u201cOVO\u201d brings to the stage high-level acrobatic acts redefining the limits of the human body.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, the show, basically, you follow a blue fly who comes in with an egg on his back and he\u2019s traveling, he\u2019s backpacking and encounters this new colony of insects.\u201d Mallet said. \u201cThe whole show is their interactions. It\u2019s a show about friendship and there\u2019s a love story with the ladybug.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re speaking an inventive language. Every bug has their sound and their characteristics or their personalities and their movement. So it makes it accessible for people that don\u2019t speak English as a first language or kids. So it really is a show that\u2019s really good for the entire family. It\u2019s something there for anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOVO\u201d will perform in Philadelphia at Wells Fargo Center from July 11 to 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s one thing to love your job. It\u2019s another to stay on the road with your job for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,171,1448,2830,1311,1072,32064,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-40302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-things-to-do","14":"tag-top-stories-trt","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114799674915420630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}