13th of July 2005
“I HAVE TO”.

Hello friends and family;

Lately I have the feeling that not many people read the blog, so I jut salute to the ones that for sure follow our adventures in the cirque du soleil world.

Why? I asked myself every time I here the nice pacemakers saying the famous line. Why are they so bad and nobody does anything to make it better?

For me is absolutely clear that the whole thing is bad. It is very bad acting; it is an insult to the people that makes comedy in this show. We all know and we all …well, I should not talk for anybody else but as far as I am concern I hate it.

How on earth in a big company people do not spend more time teaching people to learn how to act? I do not know the answer and at the end of the day as Stefan Kreiss says he does get a good laugh. My point will be that the quality of the laugh is cheap, really cheap.

Every time I heard it I fell sick. I wander myself if is just the microphone? No, it is the bad intonation that he gives to the line.

It has never been great, the gag is cheap and funny but the four different performers that did the line just the one that was not a performer did it very well. And this is of course my own taste. Jon was an electronic technician that likes dancing and was discover in a ballroom competition in Toronto. They were offering the possibility to play in a show in Las Vegas and they did it. They were the real things, someone from the audience that is taken to the stage to play a part and they never got over it. That was their part and they always kept themselves real.

Since them we have had performers and they all have over acted too much that is horrible. I wander how they do not realise. If they discover themselves so early the whole thing does not work as well.

Have fun.