PERFORMERS taking part in the popular KOOZA show. Courtesy photos.
The successful Cirque du Soleil touring show KOOZA doesn’t open under the Big Top for months but the bad-mouthing and finger-pointing about traffic congestion has already begun.
Most residents in the Humber Bay Shores area are not pleased that the popular KOOZA show is being set in a Big Top tent in the former Christie cookie lands at 2150 Lake Shore Blvd. W.
LOVELY performer in a show which holds mixed feelings from some area residents.
“I am very concerned that this major event is being staged in a residential community without a traffic plan,” said long-time resident Chris Korwin Kuzynski. “Residents were never notified or consulted of this production and it was shoved down our throat.”
Area residents are touchy about parking and traffic congestion issues in the area. They are wondering where the hundreds of fans and service vehicles would park for the large show, which will run from April 7 to May 18.
KOOZA is described as a return to Cirque du Soleil’s roots, and ticket holders are told to be prepared for an authentic circus show experience, complete with clowns and jaw-dropping acrobatic feats.
According to The Toronto Star, KOOZA is one of Cirque du Soleil’s most successful shows that broke attendance records when it returned to Montreal.
MANY in the area say traffic is tight and there is nowhere to park.
KOOZA “combines acrobatic performance and the art of clowning, while exploring fear, identity, recognition, and power,” according to the description.
“The Innocent’s journey brings him into contact with comic characters from an electrifying world full of surprises, thrills, audacity and total involvement.”
The highlights of the show include hoops manipulation, double highwire, the Skeleton Dance, and the famous Wheel of Death, an “enormous spinning contraption” that always has the audience on the edge of their seats.
“No one was told of this show and there were no public consultations about this large show coming into the community,” Korwin Kuczynski said. “What are we as a community getting from this.”
Residents claim the show details were agreed upon long before a new councillor was voted into office.
Tickets start at $77 each and available to the general public on December 12th.