Monday, April 07, 2008

Circus #2


Shrinking Show 2006, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

10 comments:

Jim Zajicek said...

How come they didnt finnish the outside of the GIANT 1/2 ring? Jim Zajicek

24-HOUR-MAN said...

Hey! Jim Z. You beat me to it, but here it is anyway.
"No wonder they don't use a ring curb, they didn't finish building it yet"!
Maybe someone should send them Jake Conover"s address.

Pat Cashin said...

I am not a fan of the New Cole-style ringless arena.

I wasn't when New Cole introduced it; I'm not now that Ringling has adopted it.

Better that they move the curtain to the halfway point in the arena and perform all three editions as high quality one-ring shows with some
top notch clowning to cover the set changes.

Bob Cline said...

You are so right. What in the world are they thinking presenting this anything more than the beginning of scaffolding? I now business is one thing, but is this being driven by a sense of greed instead? There's nothing being spent on making the show "The Greatest Show on Earth". I'm sorry but when their one ring "Gold Unit" is the best of the three, by far,.....
Bob

Anonymous said...

I wonder what the public thinks when the see that set up before the show starts. Maybe the truck hauling the rest of it broke down or someone in the last town forgot to load it. I assume the Felds are highly intelligent, well educated people, but that is rediculous no matter how you look at it. Rhodes scolar or Goof.Obviously thet got one a them globes. Every little circus, carnival and fair has one.

Anonymous said...

Strategy or what? Making the Gold the strongest might be a way to wean the public from a three ring to no ring to one ring circus format for all future editions of RBBB. Then all we will have are GOLD UNIT shows criss-crossing the country.

Anonymous said...

Anyone want to venture a guess at how much it costs to sit in a folding chair behind two other rows of folding chairs? Reminds me of a Christmas paegant at a church hall.

Eric said...

It gives one the impression that this show was conceived and produced by people who really don't like circuses but who know that they will be able to entice people to buy tickets, using the Ringling-Barnum name as the lure. (I wonder how much repeat business they get?) It's sad to think that the little kids who are taken to see this show will go home thinking that all circuses are like this.

Anonymous said...

My vote is for Circo Uno.
Bob Kitto

Wade G. Burck said...

Bob Kitto,
Like in Circus #1. Are you meaning the biggest or the best. Or a combination of the two.
Your friend,
Wade Burck