KA by Cirque du Soleil   

Performing at: KA Theatre, MGM Grand

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If you spend $165 million on a show, the results had better be spectacular. Fortunately, there's still no shortage of wonder and creativity under the Cirque du Soleil tent, as evidenced in its new production, 'KA' (pronounced 'caw'). Even though Cirque shows are now as ubiquitous as Starbucks in Vegas, each offers a unique entertainment experience, even if some of the trappings are similar. KA is an ancient spiritual concept that provides the theme to a linear story (a first for a Cirque show) of Asian twins, male and female, who are separated at birth and set out on individual journeys fraught with danger. There is no dialogue, but there's plenty of everything else; 'KA' integrates music, circus acrobatics, martial arts, kabuki, puppetry and pyrotechnics, enhanced by the type of special effects that previously existed only in the creation of motion pictures.