Tonight, two Las Vegas institutions hit town. The globe-trotting Blue Man Group kicks off a five-night run at Jones Hall, and Cirque du Soleil will hold a special preview performance of its traveling big-top show OVO (running through April 10).
Both are essentially clown shows–Cirque with its mute, otherworldly, childlike performers; and the Blue Men: mute, otherworldly, childlike…
Art Attack will be both places at once tonight, and we’ll report on the state of big-showbiz clowning tomorrow morning.
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2011.