The Culpepper & Merriweather Circus Nice Mixed Circus is as soon as once more ending its yearly run with two ultimate reveals in Paris because the Hugo-based huge high winds down its 32-week tour.
“It’s a standard circus,” mentioned Jim Royal, the circus’ workplace administrator. He mentioned acts embrace bareback horse using, tigers and a lion, acrobats, aerialists, and a clown, amongst others.
The circus is conducting two reveals at 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Saturday on the Lamar County Fairgrounds, 570 East Middle St.
The 90-minute reveals can be held beneath a tented, one-ring, huge high with seating no additional than 40 ft away from the motion within the ring, in response to the circus’ web site.
Royal mentioned Wendell the Lion and golden tabby tigers Delilah and Solomon could be a few of the animals featured in performances.
In accordance with Individuals for Moral Remedy of Animals, Delilah and Solomon had been as soon as housed by Joseph “Joe Unique” Maldonado-Passage and his Higher Wynnewood Unique Animal Park — the topic of the Netflix documentary “Tiger King.”
In accordance with paperwork from PETA, a employee at Maldonado-Passage’s facility testified in federal courtroom that the flamboyant zookeeper used a shotgun to kill 5 wholesome tigers to make room for the Culpepper & Merriweather huge cats.
Maldonado-Passage is serving a 21-year sentence in federal jail for expenses referring to the above and different crimes.
Earlier than the massive high is constructed, the general public is invited to a free tour of the circus grounds at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
The circus web site acknowledged the tour will embrace elevating the circus tent and studying in regards to the animal’s routine and different info concerning the present’s each day operations.
Shaped in 1985, the Culpepper & Merriweather Nice Mixed Circus started with a small present by Robert Johnson, Jim Hebert and Curtis Cainan. The circus, based mostly in Queen Creek, Ariz., till 2001, moved to Hugo to turn into the twentieth circus within the metropolis since 1941 and the third energetic circus nonetheless in operation.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $7 for seniors above 65 and kids beneath 12. Tickets might be bought prematurely on the circus’s web site at https://cm-circus.sq..website.
