Can you recall the last time you saw acrobats?  Or dancing horses?  What about the last time you ate cotton candy?

One of my favorite activities as a kid was going to the circus with my family.  The lights, the sounds, the performers (animals, too!) -- absolutely everything was marvelous!  It was everything the big-time three-ring circus company promised it would be; each and every time, I was on an emotional high for days afterward.

It was only natural then, when I was alerted to New York's original one-ring show, Big Apple Circus, that I would be willing to take my own kids to see some of the hottest performers. Watching a show under a Big Top where all seats are no more than FIFTY FEET from the ring? What're you kidding me?? No-brainer, there, so I dragged my two kids and my parents to the show in Manville, NJ.