EDMONTON—"Unique and very awesome. It's a new, new world for me," said Justin Fairlaid, general manager for an electrical Project, after seeing the Chinese Spectacular at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium on Wednesday.
"It is the first time we've seen something like this. Our engineers are Chinese by the dozen, and we were invited out to see the culture."
Fairlaid said he enjoyed the drumming pieces, instrumental music and costuming the most. He described it as unique and said it made him want to learn more about Chinese culture and history.
"The drumming for the most part. I like the instruments and stuff like that. The oufits were amazing and everything. What I got to see was unique."
"It makes you want to learn more because you don't understand all of it. You understood some of it from school as you grow up but this is an awakening and it is good to see how history is portrayed and stuff like that."
"It is not often that you get to hear a full orchestra with all the instruments — that was pretty new even the on the stage."
Vicki, a local hotel owner, also had good things to say about the show. "It was really, really, really good. I very much enjoyed it."
She described it as "colourful, very touching. Quite enjoyable, very much so."
The Divine Performing Arts 2008 international tour has ended as of tonight. During the tour, the performance company staged 220 shows in over 14 countries on four continents, reaching a total live audience of about 650,000.
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