Wednesday, April 11, 2001
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Wednesday, April 11, 2001 |
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Circus comes to Coweta County By MICHAEL
BOYLAN
The ingredients of a good circus include trained wild animals, music, funny clowns, breath taking acrobatics, and enough thrills and laughs to keep you entertained during the show. The L.E. Barnes Circus, which comes to the Coweta County Fairgrounds this weekend, promises all of those things and more. Produced in association with Jungleland Zoo of Orlando, Fla., the L.E. Barnes Circus will have animals of all kinds under the big top. Dave Hoover, star of TV and motion pictures, will appear in the steel arena with the Black-maned African Fighting Lions and the Bengal Tigers. There will also be llamas, horses, elephants, pigmy goats, camels and zebras. Audiences will also get a chance to see the 1996 silver medalists from Bulgaria, the entire ladies rhythmic gymnastics team. Other amazing performances will include the Goulavich Family from Russia, Armando Christiani, a world champion trampoline artist, the Petrov troupe, performing their one-of-a-kind Risley routine and the "Silver Eagle." Veselina Gencheva, the "Silver Eagle" placed seventh in the 1996 Olympics as a member of the Bulgarian ladies gymnastic team. She now gets propelled over 100 feet in the air as she is shot from a monstrous cannon. The L.E. Barnes Circus harkens back to the old days of the circus. It is one of the last circuses in America to have a six-piece circus band. There is also a midway and an original circus sideshow, featuring fire-eaters, the Chinese sword box, a "Punch and Judy" show and Sandor and Elizabeth, the world's smallest couple in a Magical Mystical Oriental Fantasy. The L.E. Barnes Circus will be presented at 2:30 and 6 p.m. at the Coweta County Fairgrounds. The show is sponsored by the Coweta County 4-H Horse-N-Pony Club. Tickets are available at the Coweta County Extension Service office at 21 East Washington St. Advanced ticket prices are $10 for adults and $3 for children. Tickets the day of the show will be $12 for adults and $5 for children. |
