Cirque Wintuk Tickets

Wintuk Tickets Wintuck is a unique seasonal residency production created by Canadian circus and street entertainment company, Cirque du Soleil. Wintuk performances are held at the WaMu Theater located in the Madison Square Garden entertainment and shopping facility in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, U.S. The show’s preview performances were held in the first week of November 2007, following which the production opened its inaugural season and held its debut performance on November 7, 2007. In November 2010, the show opened its fourth and final season of the production run, which will be staged till the end on 2011. Cirque du Soleil is a privately owned and operated company known the world over for its dramatic circus art and street entertainment performances. Cirque du Soleil was founded in 1984 by Guy Laliberte and Daniel Gautheir, two renowned street performers from the French-Canadian province of Quebec. The private entertainment company is headquartered in Montreal, and has Daniel Lamarre as its acting President and Chief Operating Officer. The debut season of the Grand Tour of Cirque du Soleil was a huge success, and as a result of this, the soon to be bankrupt circus was able to generate funding for a second season. This much need cash helped Laliberte hire a professional to setup Cirque du Soleil as a proper circus. Cirque du Soleil saw major expansion in its operations during the mid to late nineties, when the circus used to tour and perform in over 271 cities across the world, excluding the African countries. Cirque du Soleil shows provide work for over four thousand people belonging to forty different nationalities and countries. In the last few years, the company has decided to setup a residency show in the United Arab Emirates in partnership with two of Dubai’s top most companies, Nakheel and Istithmar World. Cirque du Soleil is also working on several other shows and corporate ventures, such as launching women’s clothing line, coming up with lucrative televisions deals, and opening of spas, hotels, restaurants, and night clubs. Over the years, Cirque du Soleil has produced a number of private and corporate events for wealthy corporations and families like the royal family of Dubai and 2007 Super Bowl event. Ever since its inception, Cirque du Soleil shows have won several prestigious awards including the Bambi Award, the Rose d’Or Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Gemini Award, and the Primetime Emmy Award. Wintuck is written and directed single-handedly by Richard Blackburn, with Fernando Rainville serving as the production’s creative director, Patricia Ruel as the prop and costume designer, Yves Aucoin as lighting designer, Eleni Uranis as makeup designer, Catherine Archambault as the lead choreographer, and Francois Barbeau as the production’s costume designer. The production’s legendary musical content was done by Simon Carpentier, who was also responsible for the 2003 production of Cirque de Soleil named Zumanity. All the technical aspects of the production were worked upon by a dedicated team of individuals. Some of the people who worked on the technical and logistical side of this production included names such as Daniel Cola, who served as the acrobatics performance designer of this production. Other names include new and upcoming artists like Francis Laporte, who worked as the projections designer, and Guy St-Amour who served as the acrobatic equipment and rigging designer of Wintuck. Wintuck shows are almost always divided into ninety minute performances and twenty minute long intervals. The plot of the show revolves around a young character named Jamie, who is dreading the arrival of winter season that brings with it lots of snow every year. But this year, the absence of snow during the winter season has made the young fellow question and look for the possible reasons behind this climatic change. While searching for the reasons, Jamie comes face to face with several characters such as giant dogs, and talking marionettes. Other notable characters in the show include a shy man known as Wimpy, a young girl known as Shadow girl, and a lonely spiritualist. The show focuses on the make-believe arctic work known as Wintuck, where all these characters are stranded without any sunlight, but with lots of snow creatures around. Once the sunlight returns to Wintuck, Jamie along with other characters are brought home on the back of a cane, and as a result of this the snow starts falling heavily following a snowstorm in the city. Don’t miss out on the chance to see this exceptional Cirque du Soleil production by purchasing the best available Wintuk tickets from here!