DISNEY’S REMAKE of its 1940 classic is being savaged by the critics, Rotten Tomatoes giving it a whopping 47%, compared to The Greatest Showman’s 56%. Film clip tease shows period wagons and yet new age Ferris wheel on the midway, DUH? Opened big at box office, but in third week, looks to be sinking fast. If it's as lame as critics say, I can’t see it trumping the bad reviews like Showman was able to with its socko musical movie layout ... What next from Hollywreck? A remake of The Greatest Show on Earth starring Lady Gaga as Rosa, the Beauty Queen, Johnny Depp as The Great Sebastian?
BIG APPLE to launch a “national” indoor tour, first venue the 10,00 seat Times Union Center in Albany NY. These big cement barns have become circus morgues, thousands of empty chairs mocking the commercial value and relevance of what passes through the ring(s), however worthy it may be. Only inside a smaller tent might a circus have much of a future these days.. “National” to the man who runs Big Apple apparently means a date or two beyond New York city.
KING COLE’s website page of future dates is now blank, and should this surprise any of us? I don’t know how or why he does it, unless he works many angles in raising money and selling on line tickets that are not refunded because buyers don’t make the effort to seek such. Your guess, Processor Fate? ... Here’s a raw review of one aggrieved customer: “Omg! I don't even have words for how awful it was. We were at the 4:30 show and left at intermission. That's how awful it was. My 4 year old asked if we could leave 3 times before intermission. It was a disgrace!”
CAN SOMETHING so bad be converted into Premium Camp and become the Next Big Thing? I remember wishing that satirically wicked Circus Oz would take is inclinations all the way, and stage a complete comic collapse of the old circus they enjoy making fun of. We’ve had tears. How about some laughs?
ONLY PERFORMERS can review (shame on me!): In his heated rebuttal to Herb Ueckert’s review in Circus Report of the Friesan riders in Cirque Ma' Ceo (see my last post down), trampoline veteran Jack. M. Beebe argues that only a select few have the right to discuss and argue the artistry of a particular performer’s work. And who might they be? “Only performers and show people have that privilege and right to argue that forever. ‘So called’ reviewers do not!” ... So preposterous a notion is ill-deserving even of a rebuttal.
END RINGERS: Crowds and no crowds. Kelly Miller you tubed in high speed by visiting Lunas Circus folk, best act being a compelling rope jumping by the young Mongolians, and seen by all of, what – maybe 15 people in the tent, or am I being kind?... Over at Circus Vargas, Alex Smith in CR noting business in Burbank, slow at first, but building to full houses mid week ...
OKAY, WHEN my train pulls into Chicago tomorrow afternoon, I will try posting this in the Metro Lounge, assuming they still have Wi-Fi. How nice not be near media hysteria the last two days ...
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Well, that's the arrogance. It doesn't matter what the public thinks about it, they're going to do what THEY want. The public is just there to get fleeced on the winky blinky swords. How would THEY know what's entertaining or not.
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