Monday, July 09, 2012

From Chic Silber #1

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Hi Buckles

In regards to the question about Christmas circuses

here in "The States" I remind you of the 63 attempt

of the Beatty show in the New York Coliseum

Posted by Buckles at 7/09/2012 06:16:00 AM

4 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

Chic - I was in the audience, 7 years old. I think the show was doomed because of a transit strike that kept folks at home.

09 July, 2012 09:24
Don said...

Big Apple Circus has played New York's Lincoln Center during the holidays for years. It has become an established part of the Manhattan holiday tradition and is the most important date in the show's schedule.

Don Coviongton

09 July, 2012 13:44
Roger Smith said...

The Beatty show died because of massive strikes, which included the city-wide newspaper strike. The show couldn't get a word of publicity out. Since his Garden dates for Ringling-Barnum, 1931-1934, Clyde Beatty had been embraced by New York City's press with unprecedented personal coverage. The sensational stories themselves became the stuff of legend when Beatty opened for John Ringling in 1932, after the famed attack by Nero lion led to the near-fatal "jungle fever." Even during the Depression years, Beatty's appearances packed the Garden buildings of New York and Boston. No show or name could survive the 1963 strikes, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. died like a dog in the street.

09 July, 2012 16:11
jerry digney said...

lack of promotion?

maybe they needed to invest a few years to build it into az viable date??

also--media costs in NYC are huge so you need a good budget and an aggressive ad/pr team top really make a dent.

09 July, 2012 17:13

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