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Where she's from: That's hard one, because I was travelling around with a circus for the four years before I got here. I was raised in Massachusetts, but I came here form San Francisco...
...graded my last Expos paper three years ago, and since then the program has no doubt gone all to hell. I predicted as much. Reading about the grousing reminds me of an unhappy circus employee whose job was sweeping up after the elephants. One day he was bitterly complaining about his job to a friend, who finally interrupted him to say "Why don't you quit? Just get out!" The sweeper replied "What--and leave show business...
Their life together meets a fateful disruption when they arrive in Rome and join up with a tent circus group at the edge of town. Here Gelsomina meets "The Fool" (Richard Basehart), player of the world's smallest violin. The Fool has a gentle poetic nature, and falls for Gelsomina immediately. She is so shocked that someone is being kind to her that she walks into the doorpost. But The Fool and Zampano have an old rivalry that will not die. Gelsomina blindly loves Zampano. However, she also loves The Fool. How this triangle finally resolves itself and what happens...
...Circus...
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Through Oct. 24. Boston Garden, Causeway St., Boston. Tickets $9.50-$27.50. Call (800) 828-7080 for more information...