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'R.U.N.' Closes After Just 4 Months

Only four-and-a-half months after opening it at the Luxor, Cirque du Soleil is closing its experimental live-action adventure production “R.U.N.”

The performance piece will go dark after final shows March 8.

Cirque President and CEO Daniel Lamarre told the Las Vegas Review-Journal the company is “in the business of taking risks,” but "R.U.N." didn’t have the ticket sales to keep up with Cirque’s other Las Vegas shows.

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"R.U.N." deviated from the acrobatic format most of Cirque’s shows follow.