Zarkana Reviewed Looks Like a Winner: Cirque du Soleil Returns, if Submerged in Makeup and Narrative Nonsense, to its CIRCUS Roots

Update, 7/5/11 From the New York Post, this from Frank Scheck's 2-1/2 star review reflects a nagging undercurrent of impatience through most of the notices:

"At this point in our relationship with Cirque du Soleil, familiarity is beginning to breed contempt. "Zarkana," set to occupy Radio City Music Hall until the fall, is the prolific troupe's latest attempt to establish a semi-permanent beachhead here after taking Las Vegas. But while this is no slip-up like the Cirque's "Banana Shpeel," it offers little we haven't seen before.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/cirque_is_too_square_sEYyoNh2eKTXzPuralZPFL#ixzz1REnCLqcu

End of update.

Just a brief update here. I looked at a few major Gotham reviews, Time to New York Times. Usual grumbling about obtuse allusions to a vague story, but overall, the notices I've ready are fully embracing show's solid circus offerings, noting with relief, not another Banana Shpeel.

Next up: Iris in Hollywood.