We had GREAT seats. I’ve never had seats like that for anything…not a High School band concert, even. We were 2 rows back from “center stage”. When they were doing their skits, the performers were maybe 5 feet away from me. I could see the creases in the makeup, that some performers were a LOT older than they wanted to appear.
And then, it hits me. I’ve got highly made-up women on a platform above me dancing in spandex, sequins, and stockings:
Thomas J. Brown - Aug 5, 2007
“Gold” is coming to town where I live next month. I’ve never been big on the circus, but their female ring leader, Liliana Escobar, is pretty hot. Maybe I’ll go see the circus. -)
You’d think the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily Circus is unchanging, right?
Wrong.
Two words for you: House Cats.
Yes, there’s an act in the middle of the 1st act of the Circus where a two trainers do an act with trained housecats. I’d pay real money if Letterman would do a walk-on and and make some quip about “Stupid Pet Tricks”.
But, it got better.
I’ve been to the circus in Lexington many times, most recently in 2001, when the “Red” Ringling Bros. circus came to town. This is the circus with Bello, a clown/aerialist/acrobat main character with Vanilla Ice’s haircut. It’s also the traditional, 3-ring “Big Top” show. What we got this time in Lexington is the “Blue” circus, a one-ring circus with a plot (trust me!) that plays like an amalgam of Cirque du Soleil and a broadway show.
