ASSOCIATION • Circus Members From the Center Ring Rodney Huey, RAH PR St rategies • OABA Circus Media Consultant


The American circus is in full bloom this month with dozens of top-quality circus happenings from coast-to-coast.


Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is in Hartford (CT)


May 3-5 followed by Columbus (OH) May 10-12. Then it’s a six-week hiatus before hitting the road again in early July.


According to Stephen Yaros, Feld Entertainment’s Senior Vice President of Global Public Relations, the show has 


particularly in the New York (NY), Philadelphia (PA) and Boston (MA) areas. Also in Hartford (CT) at the same time, Cirque du Soleil’s


Bazzar runs through May 5, then moves to Minneapolis (MN) for the remainder of the month. Corteo is in Cincinnati (OH)  (PA) May 30. Kooza plays San Jose (CA) thru May 26. Additionally, Cirque’s newest production, entitled Outrigger,  Hawai’i and “features prominent entertainment industry luminaries, directors and designers, coupled with accomplished Native Hawaiian artists and scholars who are poised to weave  Circo Hermanos Vazquez remains in Texas this month,  Fl!P is playing Lake Grove (NY) May 3-14 and Huntington


(NY) May 17-28. Venardos Circus, brainchild of former RB&BB Ringmaster Kevin Venardos, plays Littleton (CO) 


  Salt Lake City (UT) May 23-27 before kicking off an 11-day,


month in Lehi (UT). Garden Bros. Circus, promoting itself as “the largest


25 performance itinerary in Denver (CO) May 30. Carden International Circus is also presenting 25 performances during May covering four Wisconsin cities (Green Bay, Ashland, West Bend, and Wausau); two Michigan dates (Marquette and Sault Ste. Marie); three Missouri engagements (Rolla, Lebanon, and Cape Girardeau); and ending the month in the Illinois


communities of Olney and Salem. Royal Hanneford Circus will be presenting the Arabia Shrine Circus in Humble (TX) May 2-5. Lewis and Clark Circus opens the month in Kearneysville (WV) before trekking


thru the Pennsylvania towns of Waynesboro, Reedsville, and Circus Italia Water Circus’ Silver Unit


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is hopscotching around the Plain States; the Gold Unit is in the Upper Midwest; Paranormal is meandering up and down Rocky Mountain states; Paranormal II is on the West Coast; and Paranormal III is exploring cities along the Atlantic Seaboard. The Great Pages Circus kicks off the month in Indiana


while Jordan World Circus visits various Wyoming and North Dakota locations. Zerbini Family Circus, following a one- and/or two-day itinerary, plays six North Carolina 


month in Woodstown (NJ). Circus World Museum opens its  season with Blast Off to Circus World on May 17 featuring “camels & acrobats [that] galivant through the galaxy with  presents 11:00 am and 2:30 pm shows daily all summer long.


Also at CWM, Pfening Gallery features The Most Unique Congregation on Earth work of traveling show clergy operating under the auspices


of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Cultural Diversity. The circus ministry has been serving the spiritual needs of circuses and traveling communities for more than 100 years. The Barnum Museum in Bridgeport (CT) remains closed “as we ready the site and begin major  are “currently installed in the People’s United Bank Gallery behind the historic Museum building, [and] features artifacts that belonged to P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb (FL), Ringling Circus Museum is enjoying its second month of The Greatest Show on Earth exhibition tracing the stewardship of the Feld Family In youth circus news, Sailor Circus’ Red Troupe’s Spring


Show runs May 4-5 in the CAC Arena in Sarasota (FL). Circus Juventas’ Spring Celebration Performance also runs thru


May 5 in St. Paul (MN). The School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA) will host Carnival Umbra / Circus Escape Room May 4 in Seattle (WA). The New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) will present three public


performances this month: Open Stage Showcase May 5; CircusNext May 18; and Flying Trapeze Recital May 24.


Additionally, Clowns of America International will convene the COAI Annual Convention May 13-17 in Niagara Falls (NY).


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