Jenny Vidbel and her horses.
The show also featured Elayne Kramer/Contortionist and The Anastanini Brothers.
What a wonderful show this year! All the acts were amazing and the direction was brilliant! So happy to see The Big Apple Circus Back in town!
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2009’s BIG APPLE CIRCUS show at Lincoln Center was one of the best I seen in a long time. Bello and Grandma have a great time together and the talent is stunning. With a new ring design and great music it was a wonderfully entertaining show.
The acts consisted of Horses with Christine Zerbini and Sultan Kumisbayev, Aerial Silks with Regina Dobrovitskaya, Hand Balancing Duet with Curtola Brothers and Wheel of Wonder with David Martens. The second act had a great trampoline act with The Aniskin Troupe and a dog act with talented Regina Dobrovitskaya and Audrey Mantchev, an asian contortion team called The Long Twins, amazing juggling act with Picaso Jr. and the flying trapeze with the Aniskin Troupe.
Barry Lubin poses for the Clown Un_Mask series.
Grandma dancing ringside with a young fan from the Big Apple Circus audience.
Barry Lubin getting on his ‘Grandma’ makeup backstage at Big Apple Circus season #23.
Grandma gets a ride in NYC taxi. Photograph part of the series “Grandma in NY”.
Grandma douces Mark Gindick in the ‘Singing in The Rain’ routine that they performed at The 2014 NY Clown Theatre Festival.
Barry and I have had a long friendship and I have been so fortunate to have been there to photograph him during so many wonderful moments.
To keep up with what Barry and Grandma are doing go here.
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Dick Monday founded The New York Goofs with wife Tiffany Riley.
Dick Monday in one of his eccentric moments juggling cigar boxes in the NY Goofs show.
Dick Monday performed with GRANDMA (Barry Lubin) as his partner when they both were with Ringling Brothers Circus.
Here is a video clip (Thanks to Pat Cashin’s Clown Alley blog) of Dick and Barry performing together in 1986.
During the years 1994 to 1998 Dick was the Director of Clown College for The Feld Entertainment Company.
He recruited, trained and created clowns to perform with The Greatest Show on Earth.
Dick and Tiffany split their time between Dallas and New York. (Mostly Dallas!) Between bring up two children and performing in hospitals and other venues in Dallas they are quite busy!
I just finished doing a video interview with Dick Monday about the NY Goofs and it’s history.
Coming SOON!
While researching for this post I found a quote from Dick that I thought was great!
“Utilizing the power of laughter to uplift the spirits of humanity is a huge responsibility and one that historically has been left to the clown. As a clown, I gladly accept this challenge and will strive to parody the power and enlighten the people where ever and when ever it is called for. This is what I do for a living. I’m also good at Ping Pong.” – Dick Monday
Had fun at the Big Apple Circus and found Joel Jeske after the show chatting with BAC’s favorite grandma!
