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23 comments:
This the Incredible Shrinking Show last January.
I must have trouble on my computer. NO Circus showed up.
it would be cool if they had more acts because you don't have any obstructions in your way and you can see everything. i think the screen is a good idea if you have seats that are really high up
Good One Rebecca!
What the Hell is a 3/4 ringcurb? Do they stop and then turn when they run out of ring???
I am speechless. Somehow before today and the contrasting pictures here, and the pictures on Barry The Lighting Guy's blog I'd imagined that the Shrinking Show had at least bought an exciting looking set for their 15 million dollars -- even without rings and even if the performance was uninspired. This is terrible. This is an empty floor and a big screen TV. Even in Barry's pictures when the show is underway it's an empty floor and a big screen. Rebecca's right. There's no circus here. There are a few things that look like circus acts in an otherwise un occupied warehouse space. James Bailey, Al Ringling, North, maybe even Irvin Feld -- and Barnum who didn't particularly like circus would be appalled. This is very sad. Circus sometimes looks threadbare, but it shouldn't look sad.
It looks like the rigging truck blew the arrows.
Maybe if show #2 was in french with subtitles up on the jumbo-tron, would that level the playing field?
Odd that you would say that, the party who took Picture #2 said it reminded him of the time the prop truck With Tarzan Zerbini's was stolen and they had to perform in a siilar situation for several days.
Gary,
I havn't seen the Incredible Show myself but several people have tried to explain how the Cossacks approach the round end which is built up like the race track at Daytona.
I don't have the powers of retention I once had and what little remains I wasn't about to waste on that subject.
Maybe someone else can jump in and explain it better.
It sort of resembles a one ring show with only part of the ring.I think I will call it the"Feld Family One Half Ring Circus",formerly "The Greatest Show On Earth".
I would not even say Formerly. Leave any thing connected to RBBB off the page with this obseen[?] I know that word was miss spelled . but this #2 is a MISS in everyway. It looks like some people paid money to watch an electrocusion at Alcatraz vis sadilite. It would be less painful for them.
The part I don't understand, the part I just don't get is that somebody thought this was a really good idea. It was a case of desperate business trying a radical approach to save itself. Somebody said, "Hey circus just doesn't interest anybody over the age of twelve unless they ahve children or grandchildren. What can we do about that?" And this is what they came up with. Without knowing how attendance has been I can only imagine that this reinvention will fail to appeal to a new audience and fail to really satisfy the old one.
From Eric:
Perhaps they should change the title to THE GREATEST JOKE ON EARTH.
'Nuff said.
Eric
I showed the pictures to several co-workers here at the Minneapolis Police Department and put the question to them. They all said they would go to #1
It would seem like at least one man would like to see that sphere act. All noise and power machines.. MORE POWER .. Like a tractor pull.. Tractor pull like we used to do on the mud show with an elephant and John Deere. The tractor always won, then the elephant would have to pull the tractor out of the mudd. The tractor people never seemed to mind as it was good publicity for their business no matter who won.
The only thing I would like to see in this type set up would be, Buckles working the whole herd of CW elephants all at once! It would have put old Gunthers act to shame!That would be a sight to see!
Hey, it could happen. Show disappoints in the Garden and the phone rings in Florida. Add enough elephants to any show and the folks go home happy. get rid of that oversized half-pipe ring curb and they could stage chariot races too.
Last year I saw an impoverished Circus family of Russian jump rope performers working at the Auburndale flee market and their venue looked a little like this. However their admission was free except that you felt obligated to give them a few bucks for peanuts and a coke.
In a conversation with someone who has made a bundle in this business, I was told that he figures the owners of "that" show have cut the nut by about 75%
The wrong nuts got cut. Did I tell you of the three questions I missed for my Vet Tech test. One was I castrated a goat wrong. Did not take all off I should have.
Let's see... $50 to watch a giant TV screen... the guy's a damn genius!
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