By Jill Diver
Cirque du Soleil built the show “Alegria” in 1994 on the concept of the conflict between the old and new.
The production, one of the oldest in Cirque’s cadre of traveling extravaganzas and traditionally performed under the big top, now is reinventing itself in new ways to accommodate arena performances.
That means when “Alegria” pulls into Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena for a five-day run, audiences will get to see the juxtaposition of the old and the new within the show itself.