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For our seventh anniversary, Amanda and I went to see Cirque du Soleil's La Noubla at Downtown Disney last Thursday.  The show was excellent and worth every penny.  I particularlly liked the juggler, the silk rope flier guy, and the trampoline finale.

The auditorium (or whatever you call it) was a lot smaller inside than we thought it would be.  The worst seats were still pretty close to the stage.  The show was French based (shock), and had a lot of very cool parts.  All the music is preformed live by musicians partially hidden on the sides of the stage.  The performers do not enter and exit from the sides of the stage, there are large sections in the stage that can be raised about 20 feet and the performers come in by standing on the floor of this section.  These sections can also be lowered deeper than the floor, so a performer can just stand there and be lowered out for his exit.

During each act, there were clowns mimicing the "true" performer.  For example, during the juggler act, a clown was off to the side messing around with the stuff the juggler would need in a minute.

There are four categories of seats: front and center, Category 2, Category 3, and Category 4.  We got Category 2, which is in on the ground floor, but off-center.  It was neat because, for example, when the bicyclist raced to the edge of the stage and stopped, it was right about face level and kinda unnerving.  However, if I were to go again, I would not buy the nice seats again.  I would buy Category 3 seats, which are above the stage and further back.  There was just too much happing on stage to take it all in from as close as we were.  Being further back would allowed us to see more of it without shaking our heads back and forth.

Good luck getting seats though.  I wanted to go during the weekend, but both shows were sold out every night.  Finally settled on a Thursday.