Showbiz David

 I will post it here at 6 pm PDT, on Sunday May 19 It may be too easy to answer, so I'd suggest you pounce the moment the posting hits. And remember, you MUST GIVE A NAME, either your own or ...

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 Just ended at the Altarena Playhouse in Alameda, CA  STAGE REVIEW: PAL JOEY The great joy and payoff in little theater (Community, if you must) is that you will discover great talents t...

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There it is, now on its way.  Stay tuned for another mind-boggling quiz!     I'm now going over the proofs from my publisher, Bear Manor Media, digging into the cracks between words for lit...

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 Yes, we have ... Jim Royal! French artist and costume designer Marcel Vertes was commissioned by John Ringling North to create the costumes for the 1956 spec, Say It With Flowers. Life Magaz...

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First draft impressions. You may have read they are closing the Beatles show, Love, in Las Vegas.  The space needed for some massive makeover (a stadium for Oakland A's baseball?) being planne...

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      When the elephants paraded to Madison Square Garden in the 1950s       SPRING IS HERE, so they say, and  I shiver as never before, wondering where  “global warming”ever...

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      Name the circus that used a jazz band to score the show   The answer GEORGE MATTHEW'S GREAT LONDON CIRCUS, 1972 Have we an answer? Yes, we have.  Only one person got it right, ...

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NEXT TUESDAY, APRIL 2, NOON PDT, I will announce the results of my contest for a free copy of my forthcoming book,  Keep That Day Job!  How to Enjoy Chasing Showbiz Without Going Mad There is...

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The reviews are out, and they're wildly mixed.  Show has New York Times and The Daily News (Chris Jones) cheering -- against jeering of other heavyweights like: USA Today, the Wall Street Journa...

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Those cunning Felds  have managed to  bring off another non-circus review of the show that may feel to some like a review.  Credit a mutual love fest between the Felds and the The Wall Street ...

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UPDATE:  Don Covington sent me the New York Times article on the new Ringling.  Turns out, it was not a review, but a feature about how the new show came to be.  Why the Times will not review ...

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This morning, I called The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, hoping to obtain information about photo reprints for my new book, Keep That Day Job! How to Enjoy Chasing Showbiz Without Going Mad. I dia...

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And yet still, they mesmerize. Elvis Errani's elephants, if I translated right, won a Gold Clown, and I viewed the act.  More later.

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Charles and Alexandre Gruss for their horse juggling act The Kolev Sisters, Michelle and Nicole, for their hand-to-hand performance The elephants trained by Elvis and Cvetomira Errani

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America Calling:  There they are!  First row, left, our own Steve Copeland and Ryan Combs appearing in this year's festival.   High Honors for two dedicated goof balls helping to keep clo...

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 “GREATEST SHOW” RETURN FAILS TO CAPTURE HEADLINES      PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IGNORED EVENT event ever in American circus history was the so-called “comeback” of Ringling Bros and Ba...

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 "We await your views, " he wrote, earlier this year about a somewhat controversial subject concerning Monte Carlo. He wanted to remain in the background.  I only share this because it was one ...

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UUPDATE: 12.29  SEE END RINGERS *** You Tube Review JOURNEY TO THE RAINBOW Roncali Theater-Circus and Big Apple Circus At Lincoln Center through mid-January Tickets: $19.95 – $89.95 rin...

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Due out later next year, Showbiz David's next book  Keep That Day Job! How to Enjoy Chasing Show Business  in Vain From the fifty (yes, fifty) jobs  he held down to keep the pay checks comi...

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"I never thought I would say this, but I like the circus." Thus proclaims our guide to the proper attitudes suitable for  taking in a new kind of Greatest Show on Earth.  She  is Ashley Webs...

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     CIRCUS, WHATEVER you may wish to believe it means, to some it means the bloody gore of Circus Maximus, where Christians were fed to the lions and chariot races stormed around the hippodro...

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by skill and strength only ... by skill and strength only

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A friend to this blog, London-based entertainment reporter and critic Douglas McPherson covers circus among other topics for a number of publications, including The Stage and The Daily Mail. He i...

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Let me whistle this one in by raising a few heart-warming photos on my midway, sent our way by my UK connection, Sir Douglas of McPherson, in reply to my asking him about the scene over there in ...

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