In honor of the Bi-Centennial, the elephant act for that edition was themed “Red, White and Blue Rampage.” The music score included “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Old Piano Roll Blues,” “On a Wonderful Day Like Today,” “Circus On Parade,” “I Love a Parade,” “God Bless America,” “When the Saints Go Marching In,” “The Invincible Eagle March” (Sousa), “South Rampart Street Parade,” “Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B,” “This is My Country,” and “Grand Old Flag,” among others. |
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Circus Memories #7
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that looks like a REAL circus, the arena chock full of gear and action!
That truly was a real circus
Jerry much of it payed for out
of the Mattel checkbook
We were very lucky to have
been a part of it then
That's Elvin's Big Bertha
Yes, Jerry - but who needs all those props, costumes, elephants and rings when you have The Greatest Show On Earth? All you need is a big production floor so that the acts can get lost in the VASTNESS OF THE GRAND ARENA! (Think Harold Ronk's booming voice. >grin<) ~frank
We had great time with the 75 tour. I loved this number, I had to walk a rolling globe and later imitate James Cagney during 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'... It really didn't get any better than that!
I seem to recall that globes
and basic juggling were 2 of
the early CC classes for all
I admit some of these offered
some serious amusement the few
times I wandered through on my
way to the offices
Chic, The rolling globes and juggling classes were part of the program all through to the tenth year, at least. I remember Dick Brown would refer to the CC students as "clown thingies" when I was there and particularly disliked it when I taught the students sculpturing with foam rubber.
Is that you Bill or Nick (anony)
My favorite foam sculpter was
Mark Anthony and I have a few
pieces he gave me
I wasn't refering to the early
years but to the early classes
Who dat
And that wasn't all he called them
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