Big Apple Circus, Sold to the Highest Bidder, Will Return This Fall
The Big Apple Circus which shut down and filed for bankruptcy last year, is coming back — and just in time for its 40th anniversary…
Retired Big Apple Circus Animals Prepare for Their Second Act
Painted to imitate a big top circus tent, the mailbox on Jenny Vidbel’s property hints at the lives she cares for on her farm in the Catskill Mountains. Down in the fields, a group of horses convened at the edge of woodland during a recent visit…
Farewell to Ringling Bros., long the Greatest Show on Earth
It has come time to pen a requiem for the circus.
“Why?” you wonder. Did not the unexpected announcement Saturday night of the closing in May of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus just mean the end of one circus?…
Running Away With the Circus
November 29, 2015 | By Stephanie Sinclair NY Times
All this is to say that the Ringling Brothers Circus of 1890 was a mindblower. And yet its most popular feature that year was not its freaks or its flying-trapeze artists. It was not even the Boneless Wonder. No, the standout attraction was the incandescent light bulb….
Circus leaves lions, 3 rings behind in 21st century
June 6, 2006 | By Bill Nichols USA Today
PHILADELPHIA — Amy Kenpczynski hadn’t been to the circus in 20 years when she brought her daughter Brooke, 7, to a performance of the 136th Ringling Bros. touring extravaganza several weeks ago.…
Ringling Bros. ditches 3 rings and big cats
July 20, 2006 | By Valerie Kuklenski, Los Angeles Daily News.
LOS ANGELES — No three rings. No big cats. And just maybe, by next year, no elephants.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, the country’s oldest entertainment company, has made the first major changes to its circus since 1956, when it switched to an arena instead of a canvas tent…
In a Daring Leap, Ringling Loses Its Three Rings
December. 31, 2005 | By Glen Collins NY times
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 29 – And now, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up and meet the no-ring circus.
For the first time in its history, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will present a new show to its audiences without three rings, or two — or even one…..
