This event was aweful. This is the 3rd time I have taken my kids to this group's event at the same venue in Hawaii and this was by far the worst version of this cirus I have seen. I dont know if Covid sent all of the good performers into regular jobs and now they are taking whatever they can get or what happened but this was not worth going to. Even my kids (10 and 7 years old) said, "Dad, that wasn't a very good circus."
The couple of good acts performed their acts for 30-45 seconds, took their bow and stopped. It seemed like they felt like "whew, I didn't crash, better quit now." The lady who got pulled up by her hair was very cool. It's hard to believe that is even possible. The women who did the acrobatics on the long drape-like things were good. One performer in that group was excellent. That was about it.
The sound system was terrible. We had good seats but couldnt understand much of what they were saying. They had a roving light system that kept blinding everyone every 30 seconds. The jugglers constantly dropped thier pins. The modern-clown (no makeup guy doing stupid and un-funny gags) was 45 minutes of the 1 hour and 45 minute show and he was not funny or entertaining.
It was really sad. It seemed like something a high-school could put on (with a few exceptions) where they charge $20 for a bag of popcorn, $25 for little light up some $2 lilgh-yp words and the highlight of the show seemed to be the extended intermission where the kids wanted to get their faces painted.
Previous shows with this organization have been very good. This one was a big disappointment.