We all know stage/television performer Sam Harris is talented. He was the first winner of “Star Search” back in 1984; in the 1997 Cy Coleman/ Ira Gasman/David Newman musical “The Life,” he won a Tony nomination playing a hard-hearted hustler in New York.
Oh Cirque du Soleil, how you have spoiled us. You give us a bewitching “snake lady” sprouting from a base of coiled serpents, putting a swinging pendulum-ball of fire in the way of a poor guy who just wants to jump rope up on a high wire. And we say this is vaguely familiar.
