This research, hastened by an e-mail this morning from my fun-loving L.A.friend, who wrote: "Do you know of a circus, I heard about it when it was in Texas that was supposed to be scary or supernatural or something like that?"
Well, yes I do, Susan. But not the Water Circus which I'm touting at the moment, one of the three units from Cirque Italy, and still hanging on to a July 30-August 9 date in St. Louis. For which, my sheltered-in best wishes.
Google directed me to a TV report from Round Rock, TX, last January, where Cirque's Paranormal unit showed horrifying promise, at least in the view of KVUE-ABC as reported by trendy young Brittany Flowers:
"This show has everything you would expect -- aerial skills, acrobats and illusionists.... Definitely a Cirque show but probably unlike any cirque show you've ever seen before." In other words, more like an old fashioned real circus?
Hand picked photos, Susan, that I believe will play to your eerie expectations. But don't try any of these things at home.
Chris Holt reincarnated?
In the New Big Cage, No Wild Animals. Only Humans.
Oh, Otto, did they make you do this for another contract?
How sad what a clown has to do these days to stay current.
It looks like a gas, what with a high-tech freak show ("mini haunted house") that gave me a felling of being back on a gritty weedy midway. Bring it on! Yeah, pachyderm poo too.
Facial re-construction, painted on, for only five or ten bucks. At least if it doesn't get you a date, you can wash it off.
The acts? They looks strong, wheel of death, horizontal bars, silks, et all.
Not exactly for kids reports Flowers. In fact, she says, "Don't bring your kids, basically." Okay, there goes half your audience.
Does Round Rock ring a bell with any of you? Are any of you there?
Birthplace of Barbette!
Truth is, these kinky "adult' circuses have been tried here and there, once in Tinseltown, but do not have long shelf lives.
However ... Declares the news person introducing Flowers' report, "you can catch a show that will excite you, thrill you, and scare you."
And I believe her! I want to go! But I'd have to obtain a waiver from my governor Gruesome. And even then, half way through the program, he might rescind and order me out of the tent.
And how is your state doing?
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