The circus is coming to town tonight. Flip Circus has set up its tent in the parking lot at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, and promises to "keep the amazing American circus tradition alive." Family friendly shows are scheduled daily through June 24, 2025. The legendary Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus folded up like a card table in 2017, under pressure from radical blowhards like the Montgomery County Council, who banned circus animals from performing in the County that same year. Infamously, Discovery Communications was stolen away from Silver Spring by New York City and Knoxville through secret negotiations that took place the very week the Council spent debating circus animals. Heckuva job, Brownie! But the struggle sessions in MoCo and elsewhere that brought down Ringling Bros. created a vacuum that was filled by troupes like Flip Circus.
Flip Circus is more intimate in scale than Ringling Bros. The County Council will be delighted to know that there are no elephants, tigers, or other exotic beasts in the Flip Circus show. Acrobatics, magic tricks, aerialists, clowns, and other traditional hallmarks of a circus remain, however. Tickets are available online - or at the box office, if they haven't sold out - and the air-conditioned tent includes a concessions stand. Beware that if a clown car pulls up at the mall, and 11 jokers emerge, that's just the County Council and not part of the show.
8 comments:
A lot more fun to watch than the one at 1600 PA Ave. They’re really good at their job. And they won't destroy yours.
Remember to lock up your cars when the circus comes to town. There’s an odd correlation between transient carney population spikes and and vehicle burglaries. . . . .
Creative!!
But, Bethesda is already a circus!
seems like a poor use of the last elephants to ever live. however the animal shows were way better than exhibiting human beings.
. . . and hide your valuables!!!
I won't be long now. . .
They are in direct competition with the Rockville three-ring circus!
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