Show Review: Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy

On Sunday Aug 12^th, I took my family to see Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy at the Foxwoods MGM Theater in Connecticut. This show is advertised as "direct from Broadway". The advertisement states spectacular costumes and striking visual effects. This was supposed to be fun for the whole family.

Well....... The show stars 1980's one hit wonder Debbie Gibson. I can't even remember what song it was that she sang back the 80s. But I think we might have roller skated to it. The show starts off with her singing, as a matter of fact, whenever there was a change in the acts, she sang. Which was extremely annoying since it was too loud and distorted and we could understand what she was signing. Also if the show is supposed to be for the family, why is her dress cut up to her privates and the Violin player a muscle dude with no shirt? They both showed that they were really in shape. Maybe since the show was 15 minutes late to open, they were still working out?

The acrobats are always amazing. There were ballerinas that amazed me. When a girl can stand in a ballerina pose on top of a man's head that's amazing for both the girl and the man. She then stood in this pose on his bicep which I was in awe about. Very strong people indeed.

There were the tight rope walkers, the girls on bikes doing tricks, the trapeze artists, and every kind of circus act you could think of. That being said, that what it was, a bunch of circus acts with fancy costumes. All of the costumes were jungle themed. Some of them were very cool, kids that looked like frogs, iguanas, butterflies, etc. But at one time there were four large neon people costumes that came out, I thought they were cool, but my children thought they were scary.

Overall the show was interesting. It would have been much better if it wasn't for the singing. This was just a normal acrobat show you could see at any county fair or circus. We had discount tickets and I believe almost everyone else did too. I'm glad not too many people paid full price, because it wasn't worth over $10 a ticket.