This has been an interesting evening, at half time of the Football Game when I checked out my computer, I was surprised to find that someone had planted a spy in the audience with a cell phone and had sent me a discription of the Ken & Nicole Show even before it ended.
So I got opinions from the public that the spy was seated near as well as from the show people who phoned me later saying the elephants were good as were the Cossacks and a risley act but the act that got the biggest hand was a house cat act.
The comments from the locals were less kind. My favorite was "I didn't pay all this money to see a Drive-In movie!".
So all in all it was about what we expected, a cross between an ice show and a floating crap game. No cage act, no flying act and no rings.
One good thing tho, all my rantings must not have fallen on deaf ears since at intermission this time the announcer didn't say "You ain't seen nothing yet!". Last year we agreed with him. |
6 comments:
Excellent review by Barry, who I've never met. Folks, save your money and stay home and watch the GSOE on the video programs from years past. Ringling forgot how to be Ringling.
Dear Buckles,
The article you posted on January 3rd, about a child born with "mental disabilities", sounds incredibly like the article I wrote for Circus Report a few years ago involving a father from Wilkes Barre, PA, Jonathan Lee Iverson, Diane, and myself. The father was trying to find Bellow Nock because, as the father put it, his son had not spoken, interacted, or reacted to any exterior stimuli for all of his eleven years until he saw Bellow perform and was given a Bellow doll.
Please don't take this the wrong way but since your blog is now reaching such a wide audience and I have a modicum of vanity, please take the "A" out of "GAUTHEIL".
I humbly appreciate being mentioned in such a wide and genuinely popular forum.
For the first time in my life, I will be overly apprehensive about going to see the new Ringling show...should add we both felt Barry's review of the "new blue" was very fair and very well done.
Will close this missive wishing you, Barbara and family all the very best of good health and happiness in '06.
PS
Keep 'em coming - it wouldn't be a good day without some Buckles' Blog.
Paul Gutheil
Most circus shows have given up on animals because of the animal rights hassels. RBBB keeps the animals [a good thing] and gives up the people performers. NO flying act, NO cage act, NO ring curbs [ where the name circus comes from in the first place].Nicole should be sent back to the sand box and really let real circus people put on a circus. I am really ashamed of this RBBB being called a circus.
OK Folks - the reviews are coming in from Bloggers and from the MSM (Main Stream Media) here is a link from the review on the St Pete Times
Not so nice review...
I don't think this was the response they wanted.
And they are rolling in - here is the review from the Tampa Trib - this looks like it was written before the opening and the writer didn't even see it Didn't the NY Times get in trouble for doing this?
Pretty much a rehash of whatever Feld Inc gives them but the writer seems to have reservations if the new format will work (don't we all).
Tampa Trib article
I think the Tribune papers just talk to people who want their name in the paper. They don't actually do any real reporting, just here say. Then they wonder why they have lost most of their readers. Look how one sighted they have been with the whole Hawthorn business. They just print what buckley tells them with out having ever sit foot on the farm.
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