Teatro ZinZanni’s newest show, Dinner at Wotan’s, running through May 12, is a whirlwind of songs you know and songs you don’t, gravity-defying acrobatics, cabaret, and one memorable bubble bath.

When you go to Teatro ZinZanni, you’re treated to an overstuffed evening. The show, with a palatable plot designed to loosely hold the spectacular acrobatics together, runs about three and a half hours. You’re greeted with an appetizer soon after you’ve been seated, and each act is capped with another course. The spiegeltent is stuffed to the gills with tables; it’s hard to see where the cast is going to fit in!

Dinner at Wotan’s is no exception. Based (extremely) loosely on Nordic mythology, the show combines ’80s power ballads (the above-mentioned bubble bath happens to the tune of “Every Breath You Take,” reworked as, you guessed it, “Every Bath You Take”), traditional Swedish songs, an aria from Verdi’s La Forza del Destino (“Pace, pace mio Dio”), and even some of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

But the music fades into the background once the pole comes out. Or the tightrope. Or the trapeze. Of note in this production are Vertical Tango (Sam Payne and Sandra Feusi) as Balder and Helga, and Ariana Lallone as Freya.

“Vertical Tango” is not kidding. I don’t know how they did it (other than a lot of very intense core work), but they took the steamy, sexy, world of tango and flipped it. Rather than twining themselves around only each other, Payne and Feusi entangle themselves with the pole as well, dance-climbing up and down and over and around. At times, Payne held himself completely horizontal to the floor, about twelve feet off the ground. The audience was so clearly caught up in the heat, you could’ve heard a panty drop.

Lallone’s ballet training and work to encompass that training as an aerialist are both displayed beautifully on the lyra (an aerialist hoop). Your food will go cold as you watch her flutter weightlessly from side to side, hang upside down by one leg, effortlessly flip over, and land delicately on one toe pointe. (Credit there must also be given to Anne Gish, who operates the winch.)

Tobias Larsson and Terry Crane were daredevilish as Thor and Loki, and Los Excéntricos were fabulous and endearing as The Dwarves. Geoff Hoyle’s Wotan was a bit tiresome (his audience participation bit went on a little too long), but he was committed. (Note that Wotan will be played by Jarion Monroe from March 27 to May 12.)

It was refreshing to hear classically-trained lyric soprano Kristin Clayton as Brunnhilde, because girl could sing. The minute she opened her mouth it was obvious she was the real thing.

To my extreme disappointment, however, the food was not great. Teatro ZinZanni will make accommodations for gluten-free and vegetarian types (likely also vegans, fruitarians, you-name-its), but some alternative courses are clearly afterthoughts. My (gluten-free) soup tasted like a can of peeled roma tomatoes with basil whizzed up in a blender and barely warmed. The only redeeming aspects of the meal were the salad and the beef short rib, which was ample and cooked well, and — perhaps as should be expected — were the two courses of the meal from the main menu.