Friday, August 27, 2010

Big Apple at Lincoln Center (From Buckles)


MAIL0163, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Metropolitan Opera in the background.

Posted by Buckles at 8/27/2010 05:39:00 AM

6 comments:

Chic Silber said...

I had the opportunity to see a

performance last Christmas time

& was very impressed with the

whole shebang

27 August, 2010 10:24
Bud said...

For ME ;
This Lot IS The BIG APPLE CIRCUS !
It's just AMAZING to walk around the imediate area & be able to walk into A Tent & see the BAC at That Time of Year - THERE !
~ ~ ~
The Year they setup in Front of The Philadelphia Art Museum
( On the Circle ) was also Quite Impressive & Accommodating .

27 August, 2010 13:44
Buckles said...

Philadelphia was a blank.
Amongst the hedges that encircled the lot was a network of tunnels that housed an army of the biggest and most hostile rats I ever saw.
No biz and we were glad to get out of there never to return.
One day I walked up those steps to the very spot where Rocky did his little Mexican Hat Dance and looked down on the show.
Don't know why.

Some years later we showed Philly with Universoul in an area that resembled those old news films of bombed out Berlin.
Packed and jammed them every day for two weeks.
Go figure.

27 August, 2010 14:04
Dick Flint said...

The backlot looks like suburbia with trees and trailers in neat rows--did you have street names and house assigned to your homes??? Lucky it was winter and you didn't have lawns to mow! Did Lincoln Center plow your streets? Great shot showing how it was all squeezed in (but hasn't there sometimes been a second lot for trailers?). Didn't you also have a plywood barn for the elephant/s?

I would think that getting this date was what really launched Big Apple. Kudos to the person/s that had the idea and made it happen and to those who approved the deal!

As to Philly, the Art Museum is not a neighborhood where people go to shows and perhaps Big Apple's target market isn't comfortable downtown. Universoul played a spot where, sadly, it is a more familiar neighborhood for its target audience.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

27 August, 2010 16:17
FRANK CURRY said...

A woman by the name of Judith Friedlander was the key to getting the Big Apple into Lincoln Center.

She was close to City Hall, at that time.

In addition she opened the door to many wealthy foundations.

These foundations and corporations are the source of most of the Big Apple's revenue.

27 August, 2010 20:12
Dick Flint said...

Ah, yes, I remember her (thanks Frank)! When I was at the Smithsonian, she and Paul approached me trying to put BAC on the Mall. She had some difficulty in comprehending that the Mall was sacrosanct. I think it was after she left that BAC did get their first D.C. venue. Later in Reagan’s administration one of the big 3 automakers snagged a display on the Mall. Funniest, to me, was when the Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Circus just appeared on a Sunday morning on the Mall to give a number of shows and pass the hat. On the same weekend I was producing an outdoor show business festival on the Mall (John Herriott was a regular for 4 years in a little full-ring circus I produced) and was alerted to their appearance. I don’t think the Park Service, which polices the Mall, did anything and I was delighted to have a show day-and-date my effort! Very historic, I thought! It was the first time I saw Nick Weber and I thought I was meeting Dan Rice—he had the appearance, stance, and Shakespearian rhetoric of that great Civil War era clown.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

03 September, 2010 00:56

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