O has received many awards, including the following: Īs of early 2011, O has grossed over a billion dollars since the show opened in 1998. Will be the same as the tour is conducted around a 'regular day', so performers may or may not be training, rehearsing, or even working out. The experience allows visitors to see the backstage wings, training rooms, costume workshop, break area, underwater lighting area, and go up to a catwalk into the sound and lighting booths. Since late October 2010, Cirque du Soleil has offered backstage tours of the O theatre. Some of them are former Olympic athletes. A group of 150 stage technicians assist in the production of the show, the cast of which is 85 performers: international acrobats, synchronized swimmers, and divers. O was inspired by the 'infinity and elegance of water's pure form,' which pays tribute to the beauty of the theatre. The O theatre, which is designed to resemble a 14th-century European opera house, has 1,800 seats, thus allowing the performance to be watched by 3,600 people a night since the performance usually plays twice in a given day, also designed to meet the special demands of the show. It features water acts such as synchronized swimming as well as aerial and ground acts. O, whose name is pronounced the same way as eau, the French word for 'water', takes place around and above a 1.5-million-US-gallon (5,700 m 3) pool of water. The show has been in permanent residence at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, since October 1998. O is a water-themed stage production by Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian circus and entertainment company.

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