====== Circus Oz at Zellerbach Hall, February 15, 2013 ======
[[http://www.circusoz.com|Circus Oz]]: ** //From the Ground Up// ** \\ 
[[http://facilities.calperfs.berkeley.edu/zellerbach_auditorium/|Zellerbach Hall Auditorium]]\\ 
U.C. Berkeley\\ 
[[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA&hl=en|Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA]]\\ 
8:00 PM, Friday, February 15, 2013

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===== Set One =====
We walk in at about 7:50 PM to find a couple of the musicians -- ?Ania Reynolds? and Carl Polke -- performing in the lobby, much to the amusement of the gathered crowd. A minute or two to listen, then it's on and down to our seats in front. A bunch of OZzies are onstage doing random tricks -- balancing a tape-measure tape? //Hey, I could do that// -- and it's not even dangerous to try at home! Ghenoa is selling programs from a peanut-vendor style get-up, while others are wandering about in the theatre, interacting with the audience. Jeremy pulls an audience member up on stage for a card trick, but like most of his magic, the trick fails miserably.

Eventually, the lights go down, and after a brief warning about the evils of acrobat-addling flash photography and ringing cell phones, the curtain rises to reveal Ania, suspended from the ceiling at the world's largest piano. It's not just a grand, it's stupendous. It's a veritable stretch limo of a piano -- at least 20' long. I am heartily amused! Ania plays a pompous classical riff as the piano is ever-so-slowly lowered towards the stage, coming to a halt about 10 or 12' high. With a flash of light, the rest of the band kicks in with a **WHAM!** and the drapery drops from the "piano" revealing it to be a giant I-beam. Huh-ho! The joke's on me! And thus we segue to the initial //construction// segment of the show, as the "piano" is deconstructed and the performers begin spinning acrobatically about the stage while striking the set for the first act. Bravo! A fine way to start things off!!

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===== Performers =====
  * Chad Albinger: rigger, performer;
  * Hazel Bock: juggler;
  * Jeremy Davies: magician, performer;
  * Ghenoa Gela: emcee; 
  * Kai Johnson-Peady: acrobat;
  * Flip Kammerer: Fantasia, acrobatics, roller-blading, performer;
  * Bec Matthews: drums, percussion;
  * Stevee Mills: acrobatics;
  * Carl Polke: guitar, saxophone, other instruments, music director;
  * Ania Reynolds: keyboards, other instruments;
  * Luke Taylor: performer;
  * Mason West: Rola Bola;
  * Shane Witt: acrobatics, performer;
  * Dale Woodbridge: acrobatics, performer.

===== Notes =====
All in all, a fine evening's entertainment. I'm sure I'll be back in the audience next time the OZzies are out on tour!

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