Like many Soviet-era performers, he doesn't consider Cirque du Soleil a "real" circus — there are too many fancy masks and costumes, too much high-tech scenery, and not enough death-defying tricks, he says.
A problem surfaced: when the screen extended all the way to the floor, spotlights on the players made it difficult to see the images, and when the screen was raised it looked too much like background scenery, rather than a book from which the singers were materializing.
He said that cutting a parkway-side trail would remove too much vegetation, destroy the scenery from the parkway, and cost too much money.
Many of the 26,000 islanders, however, think mainlanders pay too much attention to the scenery and wildlife and too little to the people struggling to earn a living there.
I didn't notice the scenery too much because the clouds wouldn't stop changing into figurative sculpture, organizing themselves into moving morphing dancing figures for what seemed like hours.
They've got lovely scenery, their people are getting more and more xenophobic, and it's culturally acceptable both to drink too much and to cheat on your spouse.
Soon night fell, and I couldn't see much scenery.
