Shrine Circus
by Nanadog on 3/5/12Pepsi Coliseum - IndianapolisMy grandaughter and I had a great time, I just wish the music wasn't quite so loud. Will go again next year!!
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My grandaughter and I had a great time, I just wish the music wasn't quite so loud. Will go again next year!!
Circus was great for kids and adults. Couple of loud cannon shots my 6 yr old did not like. They had elephant and pony rides, etc.before it started we did no know about. Show lasted 3 hours with 1/2 hr intermission.
Circus was amazing, My daughter loved all the clowns. After the show we saw a couple of the preformers and a few of them had grumpy looks on their faces. They were very unfriendly. We did not try to approach them but it was just an observation. Our seats were amazing, we were in the second row. I would have like to have seen a map of the Pepsi collisium to see where the seats were, it would have helped in purchasing our tickets.
Great Seats! Wonderful Time! Can't hardly wait until next year!!!
We had a great time...Our Kids and Grand Kids had so much fun riding the elephant.
VERY ACCOMADATING AND ENJOYABLE. HELPED MAKE SOME YOUNG KIDS VERY HAPPY.
I have been going to the Murat circus since I was a kid and now I have a kid so I wanted her to experience it to. We got great seats and enjoyed the show. I just didn't like the cost of everything extra which I know you don't have to buy but you want your kids to have all the amazing things that you did.
I took a 4 year old to go see the circus and we had a blast! It was a great show!
This show was well worth the price for my family of four. Some of the acts were very captivating. I did notice that some of the vendors were charging different prices for their light up toys. For examle: One vendor charged $15 for a lit sword and another charged only $8. That was disappointing.
We took our 2 grandchilden and really enjoyed the circus. It was great to see the elephants and tigers, exciting aerial events and all. The trampoline artists were pretty lame. We had a good time but everything was overpriced and they kept hawking sales. Which put us, who could barely afford the ticket prices in a bad spot with the grandchilden who were 5 & 9 and didn't understand why we wouldn't buy shiny overpriced items. The $3 balloons were enough.
Had a GREAT time, I would recommend this to anyone wanting a good show.
The circus was great. My daughter, who is 3, loved it. It was great being able to walk around the area where the performance would occur. The only problem was how overpriced everything was. $6 for a fuzzy picture with the clowns? And we were not allowed to take our own picture with the group after paying this amount. And $3 for a balloon is ridiculous. It was really nice of the clowns walking around to stop for pictures when asked for no charge.
Circus was okay. However they didn't even check in our tickets.
The show was terrific. Grand Mom and I took out 5 year old grandson to his first circus and we all loved it. I can't believe there were some negative reviews. There were 11 beautiful, well kept tigers that did tricks inside a cage with 2 trainers. There were 3 full sized and one baby elephant that did an act including laying down and a kind of Rumba dance. The dog act was cute. The camel, llama and horse act was also cute. The trapeze act must of had 8 or so hard body girls and guys flying all over the place. The girls did several eye candy aerial acts. I was riveted, in spite of my advanced age. At the intermission, you could even walk the floor and ride the elephants or horses for a fee, or walk around and see things up close for nothing. It doesn't get any better than a Sunday at the circus with your grand son.
It would be better to have seats in the middle to see all acts performing.
The acts were amaturish, out of all the acts there were only 2 that were worthwhile. I feel they concentrated more on pushing their stupid toys/asking too much for the attractions verses the quality of entertainment. I understand this is for charity, however you don't have to charge an arm and a leg for good quailty family fun. Definately, will not go back.
We had a great time...Our 5 year old and 2 year old were so excited...A very kid friendly experience.
We've been to the Shrine Circus before at the Pepsi Coliseum, but this year it was the worst. We realize there is a lot of fund raising involved, but the extended intermission to allow for kids to ride the animals, should be limited to before and after the show. Here are a few of the problems: 1. The audio for the ring-master's microphone was horrible, we could not understand a single word he was saying it just came across as noise, no one in the show appear to care, even when it was pointed out that the audience couldn't hear him 2. Most circuses recognize that the audience is on all sides of the arena, the Shrine Circus appears to only care about one side, and that wasn't ours unfortunately. Our kids got to experience the backside of the elephants all during their show, when the baby elephant came out for a show with the little girl the mother elephant was positioned between us and the ring pretty much blocking out the whole act; and during the "finally" which included about 18 performers walking out to the center ring and holding up their arms they dropped an enormous American flag blocking everyone on our side of the arena from even seeing that. Kudos on the patriotism, can't say much for your consideration of patrons 3. The ring-master spent 10 to 15 minutes of the show focusing on the various light-toys (swords, butterflies, etc.) and encouraging the kids to use them; it was a little thoughtless to the parents of kids and to kids who didn't have them; pretty blatant attempt to guilt the parents into purchasing over-priced souvenirs 4. The interactive stuff wasn't too bad, lines were handled well and went more quickly this year; prices are a little steep $8 elephant or camel ride, $6 pony, $6 to go down the bounce slide 1 time was outrageous, $2 for a balloon animal was about $1 more than it should have been 5. Concession prices weren't bad $3.25 for cotton candy wasn’t bad at all (Barnum and Bailey want $10 and throw in a junky hat); popcorn was $5 for large (not bad) In all, had they fixed the audio (and this was the last show, so I doubt we were the first to suffer this) and not shown us their hind-ends throughout the whole show it might have been tolerable. Given that they didn't seem to care for the entire patron's enjoyment I don't think we'll ever go back or recommended it no matter how cheap they make the tickets. We paid about $25 per seat, one step down from the "best" category of seats; which it a reasonable price if we'd been treated equally.
It was a great show and my mom, sisters, brothers and I really enjoyed ourselves. It was the first time we have ever been to the circus, so we was really excited.
I remember going to the circus a lot growing up, as my grandfather was a Shriner. The circus of today is a bit different, as they REALLY use it as a tool to SELL, SELL, SELL! The performances were great, but I didn't appreciate the ringmaster peddling the light up toys continuously during the show. Also, the time before the circus and intermission was used to sell pony and elephant rides, airbrush tattoos, etc. I understand everyone needs to make a dollar, but it was a bit over board.