Cirque du Soleil's 'OVO' Cracks Open At Liacouras Center
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Cirque du Soleil has 18 productions going on worldwide. One called 'OVO,' which, in Portuguese, translates to egg, cracks open at the Liacouras Center Wednesday night.
Fifty performing artists from 17 counties are in the cast of 'OVO,' performing daring acrobatic feats and moving to a nine-piece cockroach band playing Brazilian music.
The story is about a community of insects who gets visited by a stranger.
"It's a fly, and he carries a big fly on his back," says Marjon Van Grunsven, the artistic director for 'OVO.'
She says the egg carrying fly falls in love with a lady bug who lives in the community.
"And the community is very curious about this egg and they don't really like this stranger," Van Grunsven says. "(The) whole community is like, well, we are going to steal your egg, and you are going to have to prove that you are worth the love of this lady bug before you get your egg back."
'OVO' runs through Sunday at the Liacouras Center in North Philadelphia.