The forecast calls for more "rain" at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, as in Cirque Éloize's Rain, featuring contortionists, trapeze artists, jugglers and other "new-circus"-style performers.

The Quebec-based troupe performed Rain before sold-out audiences at the Mondavi Center in 2005, and since then, according to a Mondavi Center news release, played to rave reviews on Broadway and around the world.

Rain is scheduled to be performed at 8 p.m. March 24 and 3 p.m. March 25 in Jackson Hall. A preperformance lecture by Jade McCutcheon, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance, in planned at 7 p.m. March 24 in the AGR Room at the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.

A third performance, this one in the Mondavi Center's School Matinee Series, is scheduled at 11 a.m. March 26. Educators and others interested in purchasing tickets should call the ticket office at (530) 754-4689.

Rain begins with memories of youth: how it felt to splash through the rain. Most of the action takes place in a stylized past evocative of the 1920s, with singing and dancing mixed with irreverent comedy and exhilarating stunts. The rain of the title finally arrives, and makes for a spectacular finale, the news release states.