Monsieur Fleur, our guide through the world of Alegrķa, is unreliable, unearthly and unpredictable. Carrying his lighted scepter, he parades around humoring the pretension of the flock of Old Birds who hover around him. He can appear fun loving, but the beak-nosed, hunch-backed Fleur is jealous, petty and angry. He is rotten to the core yet elegantly dressed in a red velvet coachman's jacket, black brimmed hat and jeweled vest that barely covers his grotesquely protruding belly. Don't mistake this humble man in disguise... he wants power.

The nostalgic Old Birds observe the goings-on as though they were still young and beautiful and the future was still theirs. They admire their reflections in mirrorless frames, but are only empty shells, shadows of their former selves. They are the old aristocracy, still convinced of their power and beauty. But they are twisted, deformed and ugly. They wear fanciful hats and hide behind their flamboyant costumes in rich tones of mauve, green and gold, covered with lace, jewels and embroidery.

The Nymphs are the jewels of Alegrķa. They bring light to where there only exists a darkness. They are fiercly protected by the Strong Man.

Tamir/Little Tamir

During the Original North American Tour, Tamir and Little Tamir were known as Comedian (played by Christian Racoux) and Little Comedian (Played by Batjargal Batmunkh). When the show was restaged for the Beau Rivage resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, Christian Racoux left and was replaced by Tamir Erdenesaikhan, who continues to play the character. Since then the pair have been known as Tamir and Little Tamir. Together they weave a little humor through the saddness and dispair that is sometimes Alegrķa

The White Singer is the storyteller who echoes in song everything she sees around her. She sings of melancholy and despair, of joy and happiness. The Black Singer is the White Singer's alter ego. While she too expresses in song the atmosphere of Alegrķa, there is wickedness about her. She hides many secrets in her dark heart.

The clowns are witnesses to the passing of centuries, the social commentators of Alegrķa. The clowns reflect the eternal spirit of mankind. They are grounded and realistic, telling little stories of everyday life where everyone is a hero, where anyone can fall in love and suffer a broken heart. The clowns are visionaries, philosophers of absurdity. Endearing, comical and child-like, they turn the world into a circus.

The three clowns of Alegría poignantly portray the issues of Love and Love Lost ("SnowStorm"), friendship and folly ("Birds on a Wire", and "The Shadow") and the Environment ("The Big Mess"). Their presence is felt throughout the production as their humour heightens, lightens, links or disrupts the artistic flow of the tale.

During the North American Tour and Japan, Alegría was populated by destructive clowns with acts created by Slava Polunin and featuring Dmitro Bogatirev, Yuri Medvedev and Serguei Chachelev.

For the European and Beau Rivage engagements, the trio of clowns changed to three of the most mischief causing clowns I've ever seen. "Ay! Ay! Ay!" proclaimes one (Leonid Leikine), but they each go through their whimsical manors and their hardships. Besides Leonid Leikine, there's Valery Keft, dressed in a purple suit, and Yuri Medvedev - who is famous for performing Slava's snowstorm. The trio stick together until the Asia/Pacific tour when Valery Keft and Leonid Leikine take up shop at the pool in «O» These clowns performed "Rain", which involves a lonely clown as he makes his way through the rain to find the sun; "Balloon" is concerned with the struggles between two individuals; and "Flowers" symbolizes romance and friendship.

For the Asia/Pacific Itinerary, Yuri Medvedev returns with the very emotional snowstorm performance. He is joined by two other clowns: Vladimir Olshansky from the United States and Nikolai Terentiev from Russia. These clowns also continue to delight during the North American II Tour (2002) and are seen on the DVD version of the show.

The clown trio today continues on the tradition of years past with "Snowstorm" and "Birds on a Wire".