Staff Review Of Cirque du Soleil - Zumanity

The New York New York Hotel & Casino brings the sensual side of Cirque du Soleil to Las Vegas in Zumanity. This show will open your eyes to a sensual side of human culture that is normally suppressed and unexplored. This show is about sex, make no mistake about it! But it can be described as nothing less than art, and the subject matter is discussed tastefully.

Zumanity is set in an intimate theater, unlike most of the other Cirque du Soleil shows, and it also utilizes a thrust stage. This show also takes a step away from the circus-style performance that everyone has come to expect and takes on more of a cabaret feel. The characters are wildly diverse in their race, age, gender, and sexuality and are intriguing and at times even a bit strange.

The concept behind Zumanity is to bring attention to the primal ways that people might act if they too were creatures of the wild, expressing feelings that are often kept secret in our civilized culture. There is traditional Cirque du Soleil in the act, and the performers will amaze you with their physical skill as is typical of Cirque performers. “Waterbowl” is one of the acts that is a beautiful display of two women swimming simultaneously in a round tank. They twist their bodies and weave in and out of each other like two eel trapped in a tiny fishbowl.

Show times for Cirque du Soleil - Zumanity are nightly at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Friday through Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday nights are dark. Tickets prices start at $69 and go up depending on where you would like to sit. The show runs approximately 90 minutes, and you must be 18 years of age to enter. There is also a bar in the lobby that serves cocktails, drinks, and snacks.