Sunday, November 05, 2017

#7 Orange!

Big Apple Circus!

Posted by Buckles at 11/05/2017 05:41:00 AM

6 comments:

Paul Binder said...

This may look orange but it's because of a faded photograph. All that "orange" was red!

05 November, 2017 07:18
Chic Silber said...


The renewed version is up

& running at Lincoln Center

but I haven't heard anything

from rumor control or gossip

around the artsy circuit so

perhaps Paul might comment

05 November, 2017 08:04
Bob Swaney said...

Here's a review...

http://theaterpizzazz.com/the-big-apple-circus-is-back/

06 November, 2017 09:01
Chic Silber said...


This pizzazy thing seems to be

the writer's own website & no

real press sites seem to care

Ho Hum but thank Bob

06 November, 2017 09:21
Chic Silber said...


Nowadays in order to get coverage

in the real press (or TV) about

stuff like this you must purchase

sufficient paid advertising

06 November, 2017 09:26
Chic Silber said...


Here are some words from the premier NY newspaper

Last year the Big Apple Circus, which opened in 1977, had more than $8 million in debt and didn’t present a fall show. A funding campaign sputtered, and the circus filed for bankruptcy. New owners bought what was left at auction, and it has now
returned to Lincoln Center.
They have switched from nonprofit, to (hopefully) for profit, but this month, the big top looked more or less the same. The souvenir stand had stayed modest; the portable toilets were unimproved. Concessions were of the chips popcorn churro variety. There was also a small booth selling beer and wine, where a few of the parents had lined up. At 11 a.m., some people find the circus taxing.
Big Apple has retained the director, the music director, Joel Jeske the writer and
Barry Lubin, the rubber faced pro who plays Grandma, a housecoat clad clown who is inexplicably beloved. (it’s probably more explicable if you like flatulence jokes.)
There were other additions, too, like Ty McFarlan, ringmaster and the Wallendas, a death defying troupe with a name that sounds like that of some bright plumaged game bird.
The first performer was Jan Damm, a man with wavy hair and a talent for the roly boly, a contraption involving a board placed atop a couple of cylinders. Even when the moves are executed expertly, as Mr. Damm’s are, a person riding a roly boly looks like a panda trying to snowboard.
More extraordinary was the contortion act by Elayne Kraymer. After some initial feats of flexibility, she curled into a pose in which she supported the weight of her whole body with a bit held between her teeth, a move that must have had every dentist in the audience white knuckling it. And not only the dentists.
Jenny Vidbel arrived with a string of ponies, which were then joined by a herd of horses, galloping shaggily in formation. Ms. Vidbel returned in the second act with a pack of rescue dogs. Some jumped through hoops, and one rode a scooter.
A juggler, Gamal Garcia, seemed to reappear as a roller skater, but that was an older brother, Dandino. Ammed, a third brother led the Flying Tunizianis. For the first act finale, one Tuniziani bungled a quadruple somersault but the attempt seemed remarkable.
The second act finale, which culminated in the Wallendas’ trying a seven person high wire pyramid, an act that is almost too nerve racking to watch, even with an air mattress that could sleep 90 inflated below.

Just love that last line

09 November, 2017 11:59

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