ONE Cirque means over 100 lost jobs.
Cirque du Soleil, the city’s leading production-show company, has announced a significant restructuring across several divisions. Sources familiar with the layoffs say up to 116 positions across the company were eliminated.
Word came down swiftly early Thursday evening. Even some of the affected professionals scrambled to process the news. One former Cirque employee said, “It’s brutal, how they did this.”
Referred to as the ONE Cirque initiative, the drawdown includes the end of the Touring Shows Division (covering international productions) and Resident Shows Divisions (covering the five shows in Las Vegas), along with the dismissal of several management officials for Blue Man Group, VStar Entertainment Group (a Cirque holding that stages “Sesame Street Live,” “The Muppet Show” and “Paw Patrol”) and “other affiliates,” as stated by an inner-office memo issued by Cirque President and CEO Stéphane Lefebvre on Thursday.
