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Teatro ZinZanni is a circus
Circus

File:Faroe stamp 416 circus.jpgA circus is commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobatics, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, juggling, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists....
 dinner theater
Dinner theater

Dinner theater is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged Play . Sometimes the play is incidental entertainment secondary to the meal, in the style of a night club, or the play may be a major production with dinner optional....
 that began in the neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne
Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington

Lower Queen Anne is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, Washington. While its boundaries are not precise, the toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of Seattle Center....
 in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
. It has since expanded on San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
's historic waterfront at Pier 29 on The Embarcadero
The Embarcadero (San Francisco)

The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. It sits atop an engineered seawall on reclaimed land....
.

Created by Norman Langill and once described as "the Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge is a cabaret built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18?me arrondissement, Paris, it is marked by the facsimile of a red windmill on its roof....
 meets Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil is an entertainment company. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Qu?bec in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Lalibert? and Daniel Gauthier....
," Teatro ZinZanni is a blend of European cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
, circus
Circus

File:Faroe stamp 416 circus.jpgA circus is commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobatics, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, juggling, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists....
 arts, restaurant, and vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 performed in a Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 "spiegeltent
Spiegeltent

A Spiegeltent is a large travelling tent, constructed in wood and canvas and decorated with mirrors and stained glass, intended as an entertainment venue....
" (mirror tent). It is produced by One Reel, a non-profit
Non-profit organization

A nonprofit organization is any organization that does not aim to make a profit, and which is not a public body....
 performing arts company based in Seattle.






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Teatro ZinZanni is a circus
Circus

File:Faroe stamp 416 circus.jpgA circus is commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobatics, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, juggling, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists....
 dinner theater
Dinner theater

Dinner theater is a form of entertainment that combines a restaurant meal with a staged Play . Sometimes the play is incidental entertainment secondary to the meal, in the style of a night club, or the play may be a major production with dinner optional....
 that began in the neighborhood of Lower Queen Anne
Lower Queen Anne, Seattle, Washington

Lower Queen Anne is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, at the base of Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, Washington. While its boundaries are not precise, the toponym usually refers to the shopping, office, and residential districts to the north and west of Seattle Center....
 in Seattle, Washington
Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the most populous city in the US state of Washington and the Northwestern United States. The encompassing Seattle metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest....
. It has since expanded on San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
's historic waterfront at Pier 29 on The Embarcadero
The Embarcadero (San Francisco)

The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. It sits atop an engineered seawall on reclaimed land....
.

Created by Norman Langill and once described as "the Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge is a cabaret built in 1889 by Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris red-light district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18?me arrondissement, Paris, it is marked by the facsimile of a red windmill on its roof....
 meets Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil is an entertainment company. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul, Qu?bec in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Lalibert? and Daniel Gauthier....
," Teatro ZinZanni is a blend of European cabaret
Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue — a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC....
, circus
Circus

File:Faroe stamp 416 circus.jpgA circus is commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobatics, clowns, trained animals, trapeze acts, hoopers, tightrope walkers, juggling, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists....
 arts, restaurant, and vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 performed in a Belgian
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
 "spiegeltent
Spiegeltent

A Spiegeltent is a large travelling tent, constructed in wood and canvas and decorated with mirrors and stained glass, intended as an entertainment venue....
" (mirror tent). It is produced by One Reel, a non-profit
Non-profit organization

A nonprofit organization is any organization that does not aim to make a profit, and which is not a public body....
 performing arts company based in Seattle. Its chefs include One Reel board member Tom Douglas
Tom Douglas

Tom Douglas is an United States chef, restaurateur, and writer who won the 1994 James Beard Award for Best Northwest Chef. Born in Newark, Delaware, he has helped to define Northwest cuisine, starting with his first restaurant called Dahlia Lounge, which opened in 1989....
.

Teatro ZinZanni began in Seattle in 1998 and moved its operation to San Francisco, opening there in March 2000. In 2002, it re-opened a permanent operation in Seattle's Belltown
Belltown, Seattle, Washington

Belltown is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the city's downtown waterfront, on land that was artificially flattened as part of a Denny Regrade, Seattle, Washington....
 District.

The many performers in Teatro ZinZanni productions have included Joan Baez
Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....
, Yamil Borges, Martha Davis of the rock group The Motels
The Motels

The Motels were a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles, California area best known for "Only the Lonely " and "Suddenly Last Summer ", each of which peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively....
, El Vez
El Vez

El Vez is the stage name of Robert Lopez, an openly gay Mexican-United States rock and roll artist, who performs and records original material and covers classic rock songs....
, Frank Ferrante
Frank Ferrante

Frank Ferrante is an United States theatre actor, comedian and theatre director known for his stage portrayals of legendary American comedian Groucho Marx in the Arthur Marx/Robert Fisher play Groucho: A Life in Revue and his own touring An Evening With Groucho....
, Geoff Hoyle
Geoff Hoyle

Geoff Hoyle is a United Kingdom performer who originated the role of Zazu in the Broadway theatre production of The Lion King . Hoyle has also performed in vaudeville shows, worked with Bill Irwin in "The Pickle Family Circus", performed with Cirque Du Soleil, and performed with the Revels....
, Sally Kellerman
Sally Kellerman

Sally Claire Kellerman is an United States actress and singer known for her role as Margaret Houlihan in the film MASH , for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role....
, Liliane Montevecchi
Liliane Montevecchi

Liliane Montevecchi is a France actor, dancer, and singer.Born in Paris, France, Montevecchi began her career as a prima ballerina in Roland Petit's dance company....
, Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur is a roots-folk music and blues singer best known for her song "Midnight at the Oasis"....
, Melanie Stace, and Ann Wilson
Ann Wilson

Ann Dustin Wilson is the lead singer, flute and occasional guitar player of Heart ....
 of the rock group Heart
Heart (band)

Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
.

Teatro ZinZanni has produced two CDs: The Divas, with Baez, Montevecchi, Kellerman, Thelma Houston
Thelma Houston

Thelma Houston is an American singer-songwriter and actor. She scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the Grammy Awards of 1978 for Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance....
 and others, and Omnium, a collaboration of TZ Maestro Norm Durkee with Martha Davis.

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