And of course, the more she helps, the more mixed up things get,” Millan said. And so a helpful sprite named Lucy Darling, who is played by the magician Carisa Hendrix, shows up magically, in a giant empty box. “There's a Father Time figure at the beginning of the show, whose job is to change the seasons. The 90-minute show, which runs without an intermission, is held together by a simple story. It's like a very carefully planned blueprint of how our show fits in,” Millan said. They'll say, well, we have to advance our acrobatics rig up stage a few feet. “They look at every specification of the theatre we're looking at before we go in. Millan spoke by phone from Tysons, Virginia, where the show was about to do its third performance.Īfter the summer planning period, where, Millan said, “My kids had the experience of me playing really loud Christmas music in August,” the group moved on to staging, and then to rehearsals in Las Vegas a month ago.Ī tech team has been going out to the various venues ahead of the tour, working out just how aerial acts and other logistically challenging numbers will work out from place to place. “Because none of us knew exactly what would be happening come the winter, we started reaching out to some of our favorite artists, and luckily a lot of them were very excited about working together and with us,” said Jim Millan, who created and directed the show with Louanne Madorma and Carisa Hendrix, who plays “Lucy Darling,” the show emcee's and chief magician. The show was conceived this summer, when it was still murky whether shows would be allowed to go on at all, and whether international travel would be possible.Īs a result, the creators of the show decided to work exclusively with performers who were already based in the United States. The show, with a new storyline this year, combines magic, comedy, music and circus acts, and will be performed on Dec. Those who have had their fill, at least for the moment, of “The Nutcracker” and “A Christmas Carol” might want to check out the family-friendly “Magical Cirque Christmas.”
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