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Which seats are better for this show? I would assume that front and center would be but it looks like category 2 seating gives you a wider view of everything going on. Just looking for opinions to help us decide.
Honestly, I've not had a bad seat. We've had tickets in the very back row, and in the last row of the first section (wheelchair seating). There is something to see every single time you go, and never a point in which you can't see something.
I agree with Teresa. The theater was designed around the show (as opposed to a show just being done in an existing venue) so there really are no bad seats.
Which seats are better for this show? I would assume that front and center would be but it looks like category 2 seating gives you a wider view of everything going on. Just looking for opinions to help us decide.
TIA!
One of the Cirque's trademarks is, "there are no bad seats". Obviously, closer to the stage can be better for some things ... but, you can actually miss out on other things, if you're that close.
For example - not at Disney, but at another show - they had a pair of performers who were dwarfs, a married couple IIRC. And at one point, the wife goes bouncing out over the audience, suspended (mostly) by a balloon ... just enough to put her weight at maybe 5 or 10 poinds.
Those right up close to the stage weren't in the path she took 'round and about the audience. Those of us about in "mid-field", though? Were. (I was fortunate enough to be able to put up one hand, and - along with six or eight others, of course - give her one of the several "boosts" that sent her slowly bouncing off to the next group of lucky folks.) I believe we were six or eight rows back, and just to one side of "center stage" - but she bounced all OVER the tent, covering just about every section of the audience.
I don't believe anything like that is part of La Nouba, but it gives you an idea of how nowhere is truly a "bad" seat. Partly because of the layout of the seats, both in their tents for travelling performances, and in the theater in DTD, which was (a) designed specifically for Cirque du Soleil, and (b) is modelled directly on those tents.
And partly because the performers themselves make an effort to spread the entertainment around. Not everything will be at center stage; sometimes the little vignettes mid-performance will be to the Left or the Right of the stage. And occasionally (as was my experience) out in the audience sections. ^_^
There's also the issue of "view". Close seats let you see tiny details, and be really close to the action. But there's often so much going on, that sitting close means you miss things happening ELSEWHERE on the stage. Sitting a bit further back gives you less immediacy and (slightly) less detail, but you get a better "big picture" view of the show in return.
So: Some seats are a bit better than others. But none are "bad" - just "not quite as good".
Gigantic caveat: one problem with Cirque's seats, IMO, is that they are not at all "Pooh-friendly". If you're the same size as us (see pic below), they will be quite uncomfortable. DGF reports that the seating for La Nouba is especially unfriendly to Pooh-sized guests; she thoroughly unenjoyed the show in '09, despite being a head-over-heels fan of the Cirque. (We're even considering Tapis Rouge VIP-level tickets the next time a show comes 'round this part of the world ...!)
However, if you're not wide-bottomed like I am? Or if you've NEVER been to a live Cirque performance? Well, as they say: "your mileage may vary".
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Thanks everyone. This is exactly the kind of info I need to make a decision. I don't want to miss anything going on so it looks like category 2 will be what we get. Thanks again!
I'm thinking of going to this show in October as haven't done it since 2004. Lot of good tips from everyone. Will probably do cat. 2.
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