Welcome to a place where all the world is water and the stage is all the world. Welcome to the turbulent waters of your imagination, the calm of happy memories. Welcome to this uncharted realm. Welcome to «O».

On October 19, 1998, Cirque du Soleil beat the odds an introduced an exciting new production to the world -- «O» At first glance, "O" is nothing more than another Cirque du Soleil production inside a fancy theater built to specifications for a hotel project on the Las Vegas strip. When you take a second glance, "O" becomes much, much more. Every aspect surrounding it is finely tuned; detailed to exactness. It seems inconceivable that within a $1.6 billion dollar hotel resides a production never before attempted. Never before imagined even; until now.

"O" is the brainchild of Franco Dragone and Gilles Ste-Croix, and the title itself, "O" is a phonetic play on "eau" - the French world for water. And the show, like the host resort, drips with it! Set to water in a $70 Million dollar theater, "O" pays tribute to the magic of the theater - from the simplest street performance to the most lavish of operas. Anything is possible. The drama of life plays itself out before your very eyes within a $20 Million dollar production.

O, the world's the stage they say upon which mortals strut and play until the final hour of day until the curtain calls O, to sing with all my heart caress you with my soul, my art embrace you as my counterpart until you turn away O, the all-consuming fire licking, lapping like desire exalting, rising even higher until the wind blows in

O, the circle, O the cycle ô la vie, an ode to the O water of life Please carry me To the scores of silent alchemists who wreak their joy in darkness and the light bringing magic to life we bow most humbly