Community Corner
The Circus Comes to Town
Cole Bros. Circus flies through the air at Memorial Day stop in Livingston.
Excited kids and their parents braved the heat Sunday afternoon to enjoy the Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars at the Eisenhower Corporate Campus. Billed as the World’s Largest Circus Under the Big Top, the two-hour show featured an assortment of animals, high-flying acts, and clowns.
“When they come out to see the show, people can expect to see the greatest show on earth,” said Georgia-born Lewe Andrews, who is known as Lewe the Clown.
Andrews has been working with various circus shows since he was six. Now 19, Andrews is the Cole Bros. Circus Advance Clown. As the ambassador of good will, Lewe greets the youngsters before they go into the show and does much of the organization’s promotion.
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“We’ve got lots of highlights,” he added. “There are the elephants, the flying trapeze, and cartoon poodles. Kids will love it!”
Armed with cotton candy, popcorn, soda, and more, families made their way into the red and yellow tent to take in the show. Ringmaster Chris Connors and Alissandra Von Rose opened the festivities with a musical salute to America. The audience was then treated to an impressive showing by an array of large bengel tigers presented by Judit and Juergen Nerger of Germany. Throughout their portion of the show, the tigers executed tricks and jumped through fire-coated hoops.
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The Ponce Family of Guatemala elicited oohs and aahhs from the crowed as they performed their flying trapeze act. They swung through the air, doing front and back flips, and more. Crowd rousers Kellan and Maribel performed extraordinary feats on a ladder that rotated high in the air.
Other show-stopping performances include The Human Cannonball, ThunderDome: The Moto-Chamber of Danger, the Circus Elephants of Asia, and the Bermudez Family of Clowns. The will perform two shows on Memorial Day at 1:30 p.m and 4:30 p.m. at 290 Eisenhower Parkway.
The circus is part of the weeklong events that have taken place in . The celebration ends Monday with the Memorial Day and . The remembrances begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Oval with the parade stepping off at 10 a.m. down Livingston Avenue toward Harrison School.
We've started a community scrapbook of from the Memorial Day weekend festivities in Livingston. Email your photos to marilyn.lehren@patch.com
