{"id":39982,"date":"2012-02-28T05:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=39982"},"modified":"2019-01-27T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:46:20","slug":"teatro-zinzanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=39982","title":{"rendered":"Teatro Zinzanni"},"content":{"rendered":"

I originally wanted to go to Teatro Zinzanni over 6-months ago when they advertised enjoying a meal while contortionist and circus performers danced around you. The show was so popular that tickets went fast and the dinner never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, for this round of travel to Seattle, I managed to get tickets to see a Zinzanni show. It wasn’t entirely a circus performance, but one of the last Bonsoir Liliane<\/em> shows staring Liliane Montevecchi.<\/p>\n

Liliane Montevecchi is often known as the French actress who starred with Elvis in King Creole<\/em> (1958). However, she’s better known for her elaborate Broadway shows, her Tony-nominated musicals, and for her singing and dancing. Bonsoir Liliane<\/em> is a journey from Seattle to Moscow by train with Liliane — a kind of flashback to her on-the-road musical days.<\/p>\n

The show wasn’t all about Liliane singing and dancing in glamorous costumes — but a good mix of comedy, acrobatics, dance and song with Kevin Kent, Les Petits Fr\u00e8res, Ariana Lallone, Diva and the Dixies, Tobias Larsson, and Vita Radionova. There is a photo in the gallery of me with Diva and the Dixies.<\/p>\n

As an aside, you don’t attend a Zinzanni show for the food; the food is absolutely terrible. My meal looked like burnt swamp slop and tasted no better. I was also assured that the food was gluten friendly — but after one bite I immediately felt sick. For most of the meal I simply watched everyone at our table and those around us push their uneaten food around (or drown it in salt).<\/p>\n