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I have seen many Cirque Du Soleil shows in the past. From Alegria to Zumanity, in New York, Orlando and Las Vegas. They are all fantastic, but Zarkana will have a special place in my heart. 

Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana, showing at Radio City Music hall is (as most Cirque shows are) an amazing spectacle of color, movent, music and fantastic acrobatics. But, all this feats are not what made this show special to me, but everything else that happend before and after the show. 

I found a LGTB mailing list, with show specials and other fun city gateways. Great for date night. In this list I found an special for Zarkana. I bought two tickets without paying much attention to what else was included in the package, I was happy to have found cheap tickets for a sold out show as this. 

The day of the show I read what else was included. 

I meet Tim at Industry bar (52nd) for one hour of free cocktails, a clown nose and a pass for the bus. At 7:45 we all got in a doble decker bus (mainly in the top) and rode to Radio City. At Radio City, we were ushered in on a separate entrance. Then the show began:

“Zarkana is an acrobatic rock opera that blends circus arts with the surreal to create a world where physical virtuosity rubs shoulders with the strange.

The story follows Zark, a magician who has lost his powers - and the love of his life - in an abandoned theatre populated by a motley collection of off-the-wall characters and incomparable acrobats. He runs into the Mutants, four sirens as sinister as they are fabulous, who are determined to divert him from his quest.

Zarkana is a visual vortex set in a slightly twisted musical and acrobatic fantasy universe where, little by little, chaos and craziness give way to festivity and love regained.”

It was a fantastic show in deed. 

When we walked out Radio City, it was pouring rain. I mean, raining real hard. Everybody was hidding under the theater awnings not moving but being pushed by the theatre security. 

We jumped into a peddy cab who was completely encased in plastic. Under the heavy rain, with the noise of traffic, and the slow of our movement, it was like being on a small space ship. It was very surreal. 

We arrived at Bamboo 52, where Tim produced a $50 voucher he got from Groupon. More cocktails please!

Finally, we hail a cab back home. We were exhausted and we had an amazing night.