UniverSoul Circus

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Saw it in it's last days before it pulled out of our area and before they kept chuggin' down the road for their summer tour.

I kept hearing so many good things about this for the last 10+ years but just never got a chance to go. I did catch the HBO Special that aired that one year.

Overall, I enjoyed it. They changed the MC for the ump-teenth time so I didn't know who it would be this year.

My honest opinion? Everyone seemed overworked. The energy level was up but just very routine feeling. Even the lions seemed to be bothered by the repetition of what they have to do three times a day. Now, you know that's bad.

They had too many shows scheduled I think for each day in the city. That would be enough to tire anyone, even a professional performer.

The collection of acts they had from around the world were all good and all memorable, its just that everyone seemed a bit, well, tired.

Once again, I think this comes from doing so many shows a day and so many shows a week, living in the trailers, etc. and that's even before they move on to the next city to do it all over again. I know that has to be a rough life.

With all that said, I am glad there is a UniverSoul Circus because we need one out here and props to them for starting one in the first place. No one else but Us can bring that flava, if you know what I mean.

The best act of the night was the LionTrainer Lady. She was really very good and once again, the lions were in no mood to comply to her wishes this night and she was without her assistants, but she respectfully had them all under her control. She was really good.

My suggestion would be for The UniverSoul Circus to cut back their shows to maybe one or two a day per city. Cut it back a little so it's more fresh for them as performers and us as the audience.

Maybe even take a break for a little while to relook at the future of the circus as in "where do we go from here?" The concept is still good though, they just need to revamp. Chemistry is everything too when it comes to two MC's.

I guess what I'm trying to say is their HeyDay seems to have passed as far as how great it was initially.

Another suggestion, save the kiddy shows for the day and have an adult version of the show for the evenings.

Also, they are at the point now where they could put their best shows on DVD and sell the DVDs online and in stores, stay in Atlanta, specialize the show even more and have the world come to them. Or limit their cities and how long they stay out on the road. This is 2006. Work that thing! Marketing!

This way their "Best Of" would be on DVD for the world to buy, but if you really wanna see something special, come on down to the ATL, you feel me?

It also went too long, over 3+ hours. They need to tighten that joint up timewise.

Also too many breaks at almost 20 minutes each! LOL!

If you get a chance to see it I would still say go see it though.

BTW, don't think Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey haven't taken notice of or are sleeping on UniverSoul - did Ringling have a Black MC for the first time in their history recently? Yes, they did!

The power of the Black Audience, ticket buyer, dollar. If they weren't hip to us all those years before, UniverSoul put them on point to be on the dime now. There's an audience out here who will come out if you put some flava in your show. This, they now know.