CHAPTER 14

Bring In the Cirque de l’Imagination

Innovation comes when the wrong things are used in the wrong way at the wrong time but by the right people.

—NIELS BOHR, NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING PHYSICIST

Disney theme parks leave me happy and joyful; Cirque du Soleil performances leave me stunned and in complete awe. Disney is an enchanting experience; Cirque du Soleil is like-nothing-else amazing. Disney is warmly clever; Cirque is ingenuity on steroids.

Cirque du Soleil performances make you want to eat the icing and skip the cake. Every one of their twenty-plus different performances in almost three hundred cities, from The Beatles LOVE in Las Vegas to Varekai in Vienna, is laced with color, acrobatics, dance, and over-the-top music. It is a sensory ...

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