Today’s Monday By the Numbers focuses on the Cirque du Soleil spectacle KA at MGM Grand celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. The show opened officially on Feb. 2, 2005.
Similar to an acrobat in “Ka,” we fly freely with the figures:
$165 million: Cost of the “Ka” theater.
1,900: The theater’s seating capacity.
98: Distance in feet from the lowest level of the stage below the boardwalk at audience level up to the highest grid.
15: The height, in stories, of the lowest level of the theater to the highest grid.
50: The height, in feet, of the Sand Cliff Deck, the largest moveable stage in the show.
25: The width, in feet, of the Sand Cliff Deck.
6: The depth, in feet, of the Sand Cliff Deck.
50: The weight, in tons, of the Sand Cliff Deck.
2,139: The number of speakers placed around the theater, including in each seat.
80: Number of cast members in the show.
300: Total number of members of the production team in the show.
14: Number of acts in the show.
20: Number of minutes before the curtain the show’s Gatekeeper characters begin taking their places in the wings of the theater so that they can swoop down and run past unsuspecting audience members.
16: Number of songs in the “Ka” soundtrack.
350: The volume, in cubic feet, of granular cork used in the show’s washed-up-on-the-shore scene.
14: Number of fake trees in the show’s forest scene.
160: Number of safety harnesses used in the show.
500: Individual props used in the show.
16: The length, in feet, of the Stick Bug puppet.
80: The length, in feet, of the Snake puppet.
110: Number of arrows shot across the theater during the performance.
{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun | http://goo.gl/1ftVWO }
