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IN THIS EXTRAVAGANZA, HORSES ARE THE STARS.(horse shows)

WWD | February 24, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Holly Haber

DALLAS - Showman Normand Latourelle never thought much about horses until he noticed one was stealing the show at Legendes Fantastiques, a multimedia historical spectacle he created in 1998 in Quebec.

Latourelle was startled.

"At the time, I had 120 performers, and night after night, the audience was looking at the horse walking across the stage, not the performers," he recalled. "I said, 'My God, this is a star.'"

The director and producer knows something about mesmerizing an audience. He was a founding member of Cirque du…

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