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• Billy Smart
  ...n his own funfair venture (what Americans call a "carnival"). Success didn't come immediately: at times, he had to moonlight to make ends meet, and on o ...raveling circus for only five years: by 1970, new economic conditions didn't allow a circus to survive on such a gigantic scale in Great Britain, and th
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• Barry Lubin
  ...011-2012 production of ''Dream Big'' at New York's Lincoln Center. He didn't stay oin the show for its tour (he was replaced by his understudy, [[Mark G
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• Big Apple Circus
  .... I also remember laughing uncontrollably at a clown gag—but I don’t remember who the clown was nor what was the gag." ...et him know that couldn’t join him. It was a letdown, but Michael didn’t want to return home empty-handed. Luckily, Paul heard of the situation and
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• Philip Astley
  ...d with a stentorian voice, Philip Astley was a giant for his time and didn't easily blend into crowds, even when in uniform. A gifted equestrian, he was ...ed to be affordable. Private manèges staffed with riding instructors didn't fare much better. Still, riding masters, most of them coming from the milit
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• Michael Christensen
  ...as Michael arrived in London, however, he received word that Larry couldn't join him there. Michael had often passed clubs with Paul Binder as part of ...t, Michael and Paul found themselves featured in Petit's revue, ''Zizi, je t'aime!''. They subsequently appeared on a French TV show, where they were se
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• Bertram Mills
  ...s ultimate moment of thrill, surprise, grace or comedy. The padding didn’t interest him." ...dustry was at a particularly low ebb in Great Britain. Fourthly, he didn’t hesitate to promote individual acts or performers as stars of the show, and
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• Francis Brunn
  ...r his guidance, Franz and Lotti acquired the basics of the craft, but didn't yet seriously consider developing their skills. ...time to develop a well-honed act, with his sister Lotti. Lotti's role didn't just consist in being graceful while passing props to her brother, as many
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• Kio
  .... Thus, he chose a new stage name, Kio, and stuck to illusions that didn’t require spoken explanations. ...true, anti-Semitic sentiments in Soviet Union may explain why Emil didn’t relate this story.
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...iollet-le-Duc, which would later flank the east side of the circus, didn’t exist yet (it was opened in 1880). ...e popular audience went to the Cirque Fernando to see Boum-Boum. He didn’t need to be announced: The audience knew he would be there. He was, so to sp
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...ed and sentenced to fifteen days in jail for illegal gambling. This didn’t discourage him, however; in 1878, he would create the elegant racetrack of ...gant façade, a majestic entrance hall and a spectacular foyer that didn’t need any significant alterations. The big rotunda that was to accommodate t
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• Barbette
  ...n ad posted by one of the Alferetta Sisters—an aerial duet that didn't leave a strong mark in circus history—who had lost her partner and wa ...eveloped a good musculature, it was not over-apparent. Miss Alferetta didn't want her act to be performed by a man and a woman: hers was an all-female a
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)/fr
  ...de nombreuses années, ce fut le cirque de prédilection de la haute société. Sa taille relativement petite lui conférait chaleur et intimité (on l' ...à la présentation de spectacles de cirque après une interruption plutôt futile en tant que cinéma et théâtre ; le [[Cirque Medrano (Paris)|Cirqu
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