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Total Rating: 
***
Opened: 
November 2, 2001
Ended: 
January 6, 2002
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Company/Producers: 
Big Apple Circus
Theater Type: 
off-Broadway
Theater: 
Damrosch Park Tent
Running Time: 
2 hrs
Genre: 
Circus
Author: 
Conceived: Michael Christensen
Director: 
Michel Barette
Review: 

With a nod to 1950s music and kitsch and a typical array of acrobatics, animals and clown antics, the latest installment of the Big Apple Circus is, while not especially thrilling, still a guaranteed-good- time family night out. Big Apple veteran clown Barry Lubin (as "Grandma") wins our affection as ever, especially with an amusing bit on a stairmaster. There's perhaps a bit too much horse-play (ponies running in circles, even with riders balancing on them, can be a tad numbing), but there's a delightful dog act, a fabulous juggler, a cowboy riding an ostrich (yay!), and best of all, the hilarious and wondrously agile Justin Case, who can take apart and put together a bicycle -- while he's riding it.

Cast: 
Barry Lubin, Justin Case, etc.
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
November 2001