Saturday, April 01, 2006

Hamid Shrine Circus #1


The Glenns get the thrill of a life time as they ride the big circus elephant.

Posted by Buckles at 4/01/2006 06:23:00 AM

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Once a show broad, always a show broad!!!!! Way to go girl. When did you go blond? Love it. God you look so happy.

01 April, 2006 07:45
Anonymous said...

Karen, they were looking at your High Beams. [joke]

01 April, 2006 08:28
GaryHill said...

Now Karen, Barbara taught you how to "Style" so lets see some with your pictures from Sunday? Your smile is still the same sweet one as usual! I do miss that long hair!

01 April, 2006 08:57
Anonymous said...

I’ve just returned from witnessing Ringling’s “Dream Circus” at the Garden. I don’t know how to describe my feelings; shock, dismay, anger! It is far worse than any descriptions I’ve heard so far on this blog or in the media.

An absolute disgrace to present it under the RBBB banner. I kept thinking of night club entertainment but no night club of any class would have allowed this tripe on a stage. The music was inane and they even had the nerve to refer to the three piece, pre-recorded band as The Great RBBB Band! The story line and choreography was on the level of a local dance school elementry recital. By the beginning of the second act I was really hoping that an elephant would step in the little kid.

I am sure there was some talent out there but all was underused. Only once did I have the least twinge of excitement and that was when there were seven (7) motor cycles in the sphere of death. The dog, cat (kitty) and bird act didn’t belong in any ring in anything that calls its self a circus. The Cossack riders were wasted in this presentation and the elephants were a waste of time and the aerial acts were unexciting. Six web girls! He elephants were good looking animals though.

All I could think of was the first Blue Unit with Hugo Schmidt, Alvin Bales and Charlie Baumann.

Chuck Wagner, the “ring master” has worked for me in a couple of Broadway shows and is a very good talent with a great voice should be ashamed of himself for taking part in this debachle. But then he does have a beautiful wife and a couple of kids to support as probably is the case with most of the other performers.

The Garden was no more than 1/4th full for the 10:00am show. In my day if I had been the engagement director I would have been running for my life up 8th Avenue with Irving Feld chasing me with a club.

01 April, 2006 14:39
Buckles said...

Yes but George, what did you really think of the show?

01 April, 2006 15:01
Anonymous said...

Didn't John Ringling buy out the Corporation shows because he was on the verge of losing his historic grip on The Garden? Could the Incredible Shrinking Circus do the impossible and open the Garden up for a real three ring show ... if that's what New York wants to see?

01 April, 2006 15:32
Anonymous said...

WAIT! WAIT! I just figured it out. Dumb old me.
Look at the date.
It was a joke, wasn't it? They really couldn't be serious, could they.

01 April, 2006 16:08
Anonymous said...

To annymous re: giving New York a three ring show, "what, and admit they are wrong"

01 April, 2006 16:43
Buckles said...

From what I have read John Ringling in 1929 refused to relinquish Fridays while the show was in the Garden for the lucrative Friday Night Fights.
The Garden Oficials than made a deal with the Corporation to supply a combination of the Hagenbeck-Wallace and Sells-Floto Circuses.
Now backed into a corner, Ringling had no choice but to buy out the Corporation but unfortunately the deal was consumated just one month before the Stock Markert Crash.
So he saved Friday nights in the Garden but lost control of his circus empire thru default of payment on the loan. 1933 thru '37 the Ringling Show was controlled by New York Banks and managed by Sam Gumpertz (the Gump).
In a somewhat similar situation, the Show today has been run into the ground from down sizing and drastic measures had to be taken. I wish the decision had been to ovrwhelm the audience with three rings of non stop circus acts, rather than the doomed Soleil approach. The failure of Kaleidoscape should have been some sort of warning but appearantly not.

01 April, 2006 16:43
Anonymous said...

I just don't understand why it cost $15,000,000 to "reinvent" this show? The "cost" of downsizing is pretty steep.

01 April, 2006 22:07
Anonymous said...

Its All Technical: Video Screen, Camera's ,Entrance Way.

02 April, 2006 00:27

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