Saturday, April 08, 2006

Adding Alice.


April 8, Hesperia.

Jim and Roy have started making changes to the show to make it more Alice in Wonderland-like.
That's the theme of this year's show but until now it has not been much, well, showing (somebody give me a thesaurus, for God's sake.) The problem was that Guennadi (artistic director, master clown) had started working on it but he was thrown out on the eve of the opening so it stayed sort of half baked, with an Alice opening and finale and not much related to the story in between. Like Bérengere's hulla hoop act with her fishnet stockings and high black boots and its heavy metal music. In the new and improved version Marvin the midget clown runs around the ring at intervals during the show to Roy's voice-over of "It's late! It's late!" and Bérengere will have to work the hulla hoops in a caterpillar costume, complete with little feet dangling from her legs. Her sons, Sasha and Vilen, will do their strap act in the same costumes they're using, sort of army green leotard, but with huge masks added, which might be a slight problem when they work head to head. A seamstress, a friend of the Little Sisters called Ann, should be here next week to do the new costumes. At this time this is I can report concerning the show's updates at Circus Chimera. Most days now I'm stuck in the trailer because it's become hard to go out with Dylan and sit still for more than about three minutes, and he hardly sleeps at all during the day anymore. Like Fridman kindly said earlier today, you wanted a baby, take it.
In the bad news department, the Little Sisters are not staying until the end of May, as I thought, but only until the 18 of this month, just after Easter, that is, barely more than a week from now. So quickly gone. We'll lose our guardian angels and Dylan his most fervent admirer.

Dylan de cinq a sept.

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