Bello Nock is coming back to the Beau after 4 years. But the show won’t be here long.
He dazzled Biloxi walking a highwire across the front of the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino and dangling beneath a helicopter and now daredevil Bello Nock is coming back to Biloxi with his equally daring daughter Annaliese Nock.
The pair star in this year’s DreamCast Entertainment show “Funambula,” which starts earlier than usual on May 30 and finishes less than a month later on June 25.
The production then continues on to two other MGM Resorts properties — MGM National Harbor just outside of Washington, D.C., followed by the Borgata in Atlantic City.
“It’s a very limited run,” said Misha Matorin, who has produced a DreamCast show at the Beau Rivage every summer since 2003, with a year or two off following Hurricane Katrina.
“How do you beat last year’s performance,” is his challenge, he said. “To see this kind of show you have to go to Vegas,” he said, but with Bello it’s possible.
Bello isn’t saying yet if he plans a marketing stunt — to compare to his high wire walk over Biloxi — as a promotion for this year’s show.
He hasn’t appeared in a show at the Beau Rivage since 2016 and said he’s planning some surprises.
“We’re always looking at how we can give an audience what they expect to see and give them something new,” he said. “This show we are going to make sure it has every element that has the biggest impact and most memorable moment,” he said. “Everything we’re going to do has a new twist that we’ve never done before.”
What’s Funambula?
The name Funambula means “wire walker,” in French, said Matorin, who checks that with Nock, who speaks several languages.
“We named the show because of Bello,” Matorin said. “He can do everything in circus.”
It’s actually a recreation of the original Funambula, a show of comedy and daring that played the Beau Rivage Theater in 2013. It was during one of those performances Annaliese slipped from the high wire and hit a beam, breaking two ribs. Father and daughter since appeared on “Britain’s Got Talent,” and Annaliese, the eighth-generation circus performer in the family, took on dynamite on “America’s Got Talent.”
DreamCast and Matorin take on the writing, directing and casting of the show and are so successful they attract such a diverse world-class group of artists, Bello said.
When Misha presents a show, Bello said, “You can travel the world and never leave your seat.”
For Funambula, Matorin has brought together Guiness Book of World Records artists, acts from “America’s Got Talent,” and champs from “Britain’s Got Talent,” along with Cirque du Soleil and Ringling Brothers Circus performers.
Show details
The show appeals to all ages, Bello said, and in this Olympic year the audience will see the incredible strength, the athletic abilities and their ethnic background in the artists’ acrobatics and performances.
Following the shows, the performers typically are accessible so families can meet the performers and see they are real, Matorin said. The magic of the venue is they get up close, personal, immersive, he said. “That’s what has made our show so unique.”
Tickets start at $12.95 plus tax and service fees, and can be purchased by phone at 1-888-566-7469 or at ticketmaster.com or beaurivage.com. A family four-pack of tickets is available for $40, or $30 for military families.
Shows are at 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Ticket holders also get free buffets for the kids and discounts on food, retail, the arcade and lodging at the Beau Rivage.
On the four Military Mondays during the run of the show, the Beau Rivage will again salute active duty military and veterans. “We have some very special things planned on those Monday nights,” said Beau Rivage spokeswoman Mary Cracchiolo Spain.
If you go
Fanumbula cirque-style show
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino Theater
May 30-June 25
Shows are at 7 p.m. Saturday through Thursday and at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Tickets on sale through Tickemaster.com or on the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino’s website or by calling 888-566-7469
