Road to Palooza

...another great show directed by Stefan Haves, Comic Act Designer with Cirque du Soleil, this time at the Pasadena Playhouse.  It was a kind of modern vaudeville variety show, featuring artists who have starred in Cirque du Soleil shows around the world, mixed with local comics, magicians, jugglers, acrobats and musicians.  I loved trying to catch the action by sketching non-stop...

 Street performers greeted us in the
courtyard of the theater...

My favorite act was this very surreal, giant puppet-clown with impossibly long arms balancing his red balloon ball...on either side here, a troupe of "Stomp" style performers with percussive washing machines...

 A tap dancer extraordinaire, and broom-juggling "janitor"...

This guy was billed as the "world's greatest hula hoop artist", and I don't doubt it...