And it's no wonder. Part of the show was magical, like using falling water to create images. This is a brilliant concept that I've never seen before and it was truly magical to watch.
Actually, the magic started earlier, before the actual show began. Luzia is subtitled "A Waking Dream of Mexico." Before the show begins there is an extraordinary mariachi band with a very talented singer, and we were greeted with the music and brilliantly costumed dancers, a costumed performer on stilts and another performer doing butterfly magic. The girls danced with the dancers who then gave them flowers. It was a fun photo opportunity with the granddaughters dancing with the costume performers, and their dads both grabbed photos as well as me.
Luzia is an eye-popping collection of performances and performers doing amazing acrobatics on the ground and in the air. Early in the show, following up on the butterfly magician before the performance, a woman appears on stage with massive, twenty-foot-long silk wings, sprinting on a treadmill to represent the annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico.
That's followed by a dazzling array of seemingly impossible acrobatic performances and massive, much larger-than-life horse and jaguar puppets.
As in just about every Cirque du Soleil show that I've seen, the high-flying acrobatics that defy gravity were spellbinding, bringing my granddaughters to the edge of their seats. I'd been looking forward to the time when my grandkids were old enough to bring to Cirque du Soleil and it was such a pleasure to see the thrills and the joy on their faces as they experienced the different special moments that Cirque offers. One thing I'm sure of is that they have become fans of Cirque du Soleil. If you are thinking about taking your grandchildren, go for it. It was a great experience for the girls and it was an amazing experience for me to see the joy and wonder they enjoyed.
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