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...Clown Around Town, the BAC’s 2000-2001 season production, stars Orville (Tom Dougherty) as the Country Clown arriving in NYC to visit his cousin, Gordoon (Jeff Gordon), the City Clown. The two go on a tour of the city’s sites, encountering acrobats, magicians, jugglers, trapeze artists and animals along...
...quality that shines through not just in the enthusiastic performances of its entertainers, but in the circus’s business policy as well. It is a non-profit organization, deeply committed to several health and community programs benefiting children, such as the “Clown Care Unit,” a specially trained group of circus performers visiting chronically ill children in 14 participating hospitals nationwide...
...crew dashes around the audience frantically raising levers and pulling ropes to get the next act started—no machinery is used in the performances. Performers will also often play up to the children in ringside seats, and Act II begins with a cute exchange between Orville the Clown and a child selected from the audience...
...could end up as yet another technological breakthrough in search of a problem. (Remember all that talk just a few years back about how videoconferencing was going to sweep the business world?) Personally, I'm a fan. But Facemail should be used with a certain amount of caution. The clown looks awfully cute at first. But if you select the clown, put a few snippy words in an e-mail and add some angry emoticons, you've got Psycho-mail...
...story building offers a telling symbol for what has happened to the man who used to be known as the Bad Boy of Modern Dance. Openly gay and utterly frank, he wore his hair in a messy mop, tossed off unprintable remarks about his colleagues in a braying class-clown voice, and made startlingly fresh dances whose loose-limbed, heavy-gaited steps (Morris' wonderful dancers can look like James Thurber cartoons come to life) did nothing to conceal his passionately inspired response to music of all kinds (Baroque, Balinese, even country...