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Sexual Revolution
Apr. 10th, 2005 01:02 amFriday night I accidentally managed to catch Lovesick on Bravo while channel surfing in the wee hours, and then PreZ and I continued to watch the rest of it, of course. Lovesick being the tv show/special that documented bringing Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity to the stage in Vegas, much in the way that Fire Within documented the bringing of Cirque's Varekai show to the stage, though that particular show ran for about 20 half hour episodes, and this seemed more of a one-off special.
Interesting, and very fortuitous as we'll be in Vegas next month and have tickets for Zumanity.
For the unaware, Zumanity is basically Cirque's venture into the erotic, so a novel twist on the Vegas T&A show I guess, and quite a departure for the usually all ages Cirque du Soleil. It definitely looks amazing though, even with an entirely different focus and vision, and with decadence taken in a very different direction.
The weirdest part though were the ads during the breaks... every ad break had at least one ad geared to the geriatric crowd. AARP medicaid supplement cards, 2 different people mover/power chair companies, portable at-home defibrillator kits, portable at-home oxygen tank refillers and carrier tanks. Now, we did joke about the fact that with an erotic show some viewers might need the latter two items, but other than that, it was just odd to see the ads geared to a crowd that I wouldn't expect to be watching that show, mostly as ads are usually slanted to some expected audience, in a very gender/age sterotypical way.
But who knows, maybe the oldies are just way more sexual/sensual/kinky than I give them credit for (or wanted to imagine), and more power to them if they are...
Interesting, and very fortuitous as we'll be in Vegas next month and have tickets for Zumanity.
For the unaware, Zumanity is basically Cirque's venture into the erotic, so a novel twist on the Vegas T&A show I guess, and quite a departure for the usually all ages Cirque du Soleil. It definitely looks amazing though, even with an entirely different focus and vision, and with decadence taken in a very different direction.
The weirdest part though were the ads during the breaks... every ad break had at least one ad geared to the geriatric crowd. AARP medicaid supplement cards, 2 different people mover/power chair companies, portable at-home defibrillator kits, portable at-home oxygen tank refillers and carrier tanks. Now, we did joke about the fact that with an erotic show some viewers might need the latter two items, but other than that, it was just odd to see the ads geared to a crowd that I wouldn't expect to be watching that show, mostly as ads are usually slanted to some expected audience, in a very gender/age sterotypical way.
But who knows, maybe the oldies are just way more sexual/sensual/kinky than I give them credit for (or wanted to imagine), and more power to them if they are...
