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Win Tickets to See Cirque du Soleil: Alegría (Deadline 09/07/09)
Cirque du Soleil: Alegría (tickets)
The Singer in White from Alegría (Photo credit: Camirand)
We’re very excited to be able to offer a family 4-pack of free tickets to see the Alegría, a Cirque du Soleil classic and an internationally acclaimed production that has entertained more than 10 million people worldwide since its world premiere in Montreal in April 1994.
Alegría will be performing 8 shows at the Mullins Center at UMass in Amherst, MA, from September 16-20, 2009. Tickets range from $40 to $95 for adult and $32 to $76 for children (12 years old & under).
Here’s your chance to win a free family 4-pack of tickets to see this amazing show on the premiere night, Wednesday, September 16th at 7:30pm.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Alegría is a Spanish word that means happiness, joy and jubilation. An operatic introspection of the struggle for power and the invigorating energy of youth, Alegría relates the tale of power versus weakness, the king versus his jesters, and age against youth.
A kingdom without a king, Alegría is a world where everyone feels imbued with power —from impish court jester Fleur to the young and vital Bronx, to the aged and aristocratic Birds. Alegría is inhabited by minstrels, rogues, beggars, nobles, children and clowns, the only characters able to adapt to the changing times and the upheaval it brings. In this enigmatic, troubling world of profound changes and uncertainty, despite all the trials and tribulations, there is only one constant: the human spirit remains implacable.
Alegría features an international cast of 55 performers and musicians from 17 countries and showcases breathtaking acrobatics. Acts include the Synchro Trapeze and the high-speed, high-energy Aerial High Bars in which daring aerialists fly to catchers swinging more than 40 feet above the stage. The vibrancy of youth is alive in Power Track, a brilliant display of synchronized choreography and tumbling on a trampoline system hidden under the stage floor. In Russian Bars, artists fly through the air and perform spectacular somersaults and mid-air turns, landing on bars perched on the sturdy shoulders of catchers.
HOW TO WIN TICKETS
Your chance to win a free family 4-pack of tickets to see Alegría is as easy as 1-2-3 (4)! Tickets are for the premiere night, Wednesday, September 16th, at 7:30pm at the Mullins Center in Amherst, MA. To win simply
- POST A COMMENT BELOW (one entry per household) and be sure to tell us your
- FULL NAME and where you
- LIVE (TOWN/STATE) PLEASE include your town and state to be eligible.
- ACCURATE EMAIL (we never share your email address).
We’ll randomly draw a winner and will share the results below.
IT’S THAT SIMPLE! — Winner must provide identification when picking up tickets at the Will Call booth the night of the show. Please only enter if you know for certain that your family will be able to attend this Wednesday night performance. Deadline is Monday, 09/07/08 @ 7pm (EST).
I would love to see this show!!
Deanne Larkham of South Hadley, MA
Thanks you to everyone who signed up for a chance to win tickets! We had a great response and loved hearing from everyone.
Using the random number generator over at random.org we have selected a winner:
Congratulations to Angie Gregory of Northampton, MA. She is the winner of a family 4-pack of free tickets to see Alegria on its premiere night, Wednesday, September 16th at 7:30pm, at the Mullins Center in Amherst, MA.
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My budding circus daughters would be pumped! Thanks for the opportuity.
Catherine, Mark, Hope, and Willow
Goshen, MA
Hi– we would love to see this show! We’re not in the Hilltowns, but I read this site regularly to find cool things to do in the area.
Sandra Dias
Holyoke, Massachusetts
We would love to go. My oldest has been loving the cirque videosand dvds. Thanks for the chnace.
Pelham, MA
Not to be selfish, but we want to win. Six minutes is just not enough.
We Whately wesidents want to win!
Would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see cirque du soleil! I’m not one to ever win anything but it’s worth the try.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Jennifer Lightman
Northampton, MA
Sounds great! I guess I have 1% chance to see this wonderful show with free tickets!!!! Framingham, MA
I’m feeling lucky! Carol in Shelburne Falls
Thanks for posting so many great ideas for mini-adventures!
West Springfield, MA
I’m Gudrun, living in Shutesbury, MA…….fingers crossed!
Wow what a fantastic opportunity!
This is a fabulous website.
Bravo!
Greenfield, MA
I am from Istanbul. They have never been to Turkey but I love them!! I have watched Cirque du Soleil many many times on DVDs and watching them alive has always been my dream, now I’m very close to realize that!
It is so exciting!!
Cambridge, MA
Wow, we would absolutely love to go. We’re in Easthampton, MA
Love the Hilltown Families web site by the way
What a wonderful offering! Thank you for all your hard work on this site. Our family loves it and your radio show! Fingers crossed ;)
Would love an opportunity to go to the show, looks awesome. Oriana Martinez Haydenville, MA.
THANKS SO MUCH!!
Northampton MA
excited to maybe go!! THANKS
Florence MA
erin long
holyoke, ma
this sounds like a great show
Jessica in Northampton, MA
Wow, what a FABULOUS offering…I’ll keep my fingers crossed! We’re in Northampton. Thanks, Sienna…and see you in 2 days!
My family love Cirque du Soleil, have seen many and are in love with.
My daughter would love it, this will be her first time.
Nanuet, New york
thanks for the opportunity
Greg Lekarczyk
West Springfield, MA
glekarczyk@yahoo.com
Thanks for the maybe chance. We would love to go!
We’ve never seen them but heard great things.
Shelburne Falls, MA
What an awesome opportunity. Thanks for making these tickets available. There are so many people who’d love to go but would never be able to afford the tickets. I really appreciate what you are doing. West Chesterfield, MA
Lucky #39… Here’s to winning tickets to a show that I have been dying to see with my Family!
Mindy Ramos
Southampton Ma
We would love to go!!!!
Kai & Christy Winslow from Haydenville MA
Sounds like such a great show we would love to go.
Maribeth- Ashfield
if we can win the lottery for the hilltown charter than we must have some energetic luck running though this family…. let’s hope the digital lottery draw can pick up on it too! we’ll be there, all the way from our little ‘ol town of Northampton.
We would LOVE to go – looks sure to be an amazing evening! Signed, Feeling Lucky in Florence, MA.
We’d love to win the tickets–it looks like an amazing show–Thanks for the chance!
Amy Coyne in Goshen, MA
I live in Amherst, MA.
Fingers crossed for the draw!
WOW!!!! i made a mistake but i was taken to the right place today. thank you for everything your site provides for everyone. we would be amazed and happy to be at this performance. thank you with respect, the jensen family. leeds,ma.
We are from Pelham, Ma and would love to go!
This sounds great!!
Greenfield, MA
This sounds like an amazing show. I live in Conway MA with my husband and two budding trapeze artists who would love to see this Cirque.
Rivals any circus or acrobatic show I’ve ever seen ! Thank you for including us in the drawing. I’ve got fingers and toes crossed !
Goshen, MA
Awesome giveaway Sienna!!! WoW! Since Summer has said she wants to be an acrobat when she gets older, I guess we should introduce her to the masters. *Fingers crossed*!! lovely West Chesterfield, MA.
My mom and sister will be here visiting from Argentina that day and I’d love to take them, it will be such a super special treat !!!!
Florence, MA
Please count me in your drawing!! My son and I have watched Cirque videos from the library and love, love, love them!! It would be amazing to see them live!
Karin in Northampton MA
Would love these. I live in shelburne falls ma. Thanks!
We’d love to go! Thanks for the chance.
Florence, MA
We have been to several shows and its always amazing! I listened to this soundtrack over and over when I was pregnant with my son 7 years ago…
Laura (Haydenville, MA)
Would love to take my girls to see this — mom will be working! Sorry mom :)
Glenn, Whately MA
We’d love to win the tix. :-) Thanks…
Greenfield, MA
Sienna,
Thanks so much for offering this. I’ve loved seeing promos and clips of Cirgue du Soleil, (I think they’ve also been on public TV, yes?) but I can’t afford to go see them live. I would love to bring my nieces who are also big fans. They would be very excited!
I’m in Hatfield, MA.
Thanks!
Deb
We would absolutely love, Love, LOVE to see Cirque de Soleil live! What an opportunity! Thank you so much for offering this drawing.
Jamie Bishop
Plainfield, MA
Bravo Sienna! Wouldn’t I love to take my kids to see this. Please enter my name in the drawing. From Ashfield, MA.
We’d LOVE to win those tickets! Just a quick trip over the bridge from our home in Northampton, MA.
Thank you!
Haydenville, MA
Thanks so much for the chance to win these tix.
Zach Howard,
Conway, MA
It would be so great to be able to bring my kids to the show!
Lei Fay
Easthampton, MA
We would love to go!!
Shelburne Falls, MA
We, too, are hoping to win these fantastic tickets! Great contest, Sienna.
Ellen Doyle
Williamsburg, MA
We can definitely make it and oh my children would so much like to go!!!!
Miranda Shannon
Hadley, MA
What a wonderful way to spend the night with my family, witnessing the fruits of others labors! I would love to go.
Marci Katz
Florence, Ma
My family is a bunch of Cirque du Soleil junkies. It would be so great to see them in Amherst.
Florence, MA
I’ve never been to the circus. I would love this to be my first experience!
Karen Carswell
Easthampton, MA
Nelson Geis
Hatfield, MA
I think I saw this when I was a teenager, I would love to take my kids and share it with them.
Please include us in the drawing, that’d be a wonderful night out for our family!
Heather Polson, Northampton, MA
oh! how exciting! i would love to see this wonderful, magical show!!!!!
kyra anderson
northampton, ma!!!
that would be fab! we’d love to win never been to cirque du soleil! we live in Ashfield MA!!
Okay–I WOULD LOVE TO GO!!!! I live in Chesterfield (proper), Massachusetts and we can definitely make it to that event. (Let luck be my lady tonight!)