Cirque du Soleil - Dralion

I am a big fan of Cirque du Soleil. Anyone who has seen them live, or even on tele will agree with me, I'm sure! Cirque du Soleil is a Canadian based company that expanded rapidly in the 90's due to their numerous success and award winning performances.

It has been a recurrent thing for me to do since a few years ago, after watching my first show here in Melbourne - Quidam!

I was so mesmerised by their live music, acrobatic stunts, costumes, and their pure grace, that I have booked myself a ticket to see them everytime they come with a new production!

This year - it was Dralion.

You can't miss their blue and yellow tent~!! They were in Docklands this year, moving from their usual location at Melbourne Park. Both Quidam and Varekai were there, but I suppose it's better being at Docklands, because the parking at Melbourne Park was sort of a mess! And the traffic to Docklands is significantly less as well. Getting stuck around Punt Road / Swan Street while getting to Melbourne Park, was just not fun!

The official merchandise of the Cirque du Soleil - inside the tents. I get tempted to buy something everytime, but this year, I held back :) Hehehe... I'm so good! Save some money...

I think I've learnt my lessons after buying t-shirts that I hardly wear from the previous shows! Hehe.

Jon all dressed up cause he came straight from work. I took the train into Southern Cross station, and he met me there. Luckily, we also managed to grab some dinner before the show started.

The show, I thought was pretty mediocre this time around. It was good of course, but I sort of expected something to take my breath away. There wasn't anything too "WOW!!" in this production, I reckon.

I thought it was only me, but Jon thought the same too. Good, but not great! We both agreed that Varekai was way better! Hehe. We still thoroughly enjoyed it, none-the-less.

During intermission. The stage was draped with a hugeeee piece of fabric or something. It looks like a big aquarium, don't you think? Hehehe... The music was quite soothing for those who decided to stay in the circus tent.


We managed to cam-whore a little in the circus tent. Haha... We could only do it during intermission, cause no photographs / videos are allowed during the preformance for safety purposes.

We then headed out to the merchandise tent to browse through the souvenirs on sale, and bought some snacks as well. It was pretty much the same things on sale every time. Once you've been to a few shows, I don't suppose you'll buy much more than just the program.

I was quite close to getting a mask, but decided against in the end.... because I didn't have any masquerade to go to.. haha. It would just end up lying around at home, get dusty and old... and when I eventually have an event to wear it to, I'd want a new mask! Haha.

And it wasn't cheap too! Most of the nicer masks cost like >100 bucks! Almost the price of a ticket, hello~!!! So, no thanks.... I didn't get anything this time around :(

Oh btw, does anyone feel generous enough to sponsor me a ticket to Vegas? Heheheh... Cirque du Soleil's "O" is showing there! Otherwise, it looks like I have to wait for another year or two before the next production comes.... and we wouldn't miss it for the world!