From the Cirque De Soliel wiki we get this:
Cirque du Soleil (French for “Circus of the Sun”) is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Quebec in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. It was an answer to a call by Commissariat général aux célébrations 1534–1984 of the Quebec Government for the 450th anniversary celebration of the arrival of French explorer Jacques Cartier (1491–1557) to Canada. Gauthier, who left the company in 2001, now owns the ski area Le Massif, on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. Cirque du Soleil is now “guided” by Laliberté.
Entertainment empire indeed. There are gobs of companies out there (La Nouba, Ka, “O”, Mystere, Zumanity, The Beatles: Love, Corteo) and yet tickets are still hard to come by! If you are having trouble getting the tickets you want through the box office here is where you ought to look online for after market tickets:
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