Conway will enjoy a rare opportunity to see one of the largest Cirque Mechanics productions ever produced when Boom Town comes to the Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 7:30p.m.
The event is part of UCA Public Appearances’ Night OutSeries.
Jerry Biebesheimer, director of Public Appearances, said theproduction, which will take more than a day to construct, is a rare opportunityfor UCA because of its size and complexity.
“We are lucky to receive such a large production,” hesaid. “They had a two-day gap in their tour they needed to fill, and thecost reduction we were able to attain made it feasible to mount a production atUCA.”
Biebesheimer said although UCA has hosted other Cirque eventsin the past, such as last year’s Cirque Shanghai, it has never seen one of this size and magnitude.
Prepare to be transported to Rosebud, a small frontier town around the year 1860 where two ambitious saloon owners have set up shop inhopes of cashing in on the town’s gold rush frenzy.
Through the use of innovative props and built-to-ordermechanical apparatus, performers formerly from the Moscow Circus, Cirque Soleiland other internationally known acrobatic troops combine classic circusroutines with new ideas and props. They will dance on a swinging chandelier,flip and jump on moving ore carts, climb swaying telegraph poles, fly high andfast on a revolving crane and balance on whiskey jugs.
Boom Town has received critical and popular praise duringits national tour, which began in April 2011 and will continue until April 2012after stops all over North America.
Tickets, available at the UCA Ticket Central Box Office, are$30-$40 for adults, $27-$37 for senior citizens, $25-35 for UCA alumni, $28-$33for UCA faculty and staff, $10 for non-UCA students. UCA students can get twofree tickets with a valid student I.D. For tickets, call (501) 450-3265 or tollfree from anywhere in Arkansasat 1-866-810-0012, Monday–Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. or visit www.uca.edu/reynolds.
