Resorts prepares to host Naked Circus under parking lot tent
Work crew at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City putting up a tent in parking lot Wednesday, July 6.VINCENT JACKSON Staff Writer
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July 6, 2011
ATLANTIC CITY — This year, producer Tuffy Nicholas wanted to bring one of his circuses to a casino here. He ended up doing three different circuses starting next week at Resorts Casino Hotel.
People visiting the surface lot in front of Resorts on the North Carolina Avenue side beginning today will see a 60-foot-high, 120-foot-wide tent — the Event Pavilion — which will hold 1,800 people for the circus. It will feature air conditioning and heating, and be like a theater on the inside with high-backed chairs, Nicholas said.
It will house three circuses that will be running simultaneously, the Great American Circus and Cirque Polynesian during the afternoon and evening, respectively, starting July 14, and Cirque Risque: The Naked Circus at night, beginning July 17.
Tickets for all three shows should go on sale Saturday at the Resorts box office and through Ticketmaster outlets and charge by phone.
“I love the circus. I saw (a recording of) the circus that he did in Maui. I was so amazed,” Resorts owner Dennis Gomes said. “I like to do things different than anybody else.”
Forty-five cast members have been hired, and some of them will appear in two of the three shows, Nicholas said.
Twenty performers will be in each cast. The shows will last 75 minutes each. The Great American Circus show has been touring all over the world, and just returned from Asia. The Polynesian show has been staged in Santa Cruz, Calif., and Maui, Hawaii, Nicholas said.
Designed as a family fun show, children’s tickets for the Great American Circus will start at $9, and thousands of children’s tickets will be given away through the casino. The show features the Wheel of Death, husband-and wife crossbow artists, aerial ballerinas and clowns among other attractions. The Great American Circus was passed along to Nicholas from a friend three years ago, said Nicholas, who has produced thousands of shows for the past 20 years all over the world.
Authentic Polynesian warriors, Tahitian and hula dancers will be blended with Cirque artists for Cirque Polynesian, which has been performed for the past seven years in Hawaii and is still going strong, Nicholas said.
Cirque du Soleil performs the adult-themed Zumanity at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The casinos here have hosted adults-only production and revue shows for the past 14 years off and on, but this is the first time a circus for those age 21 and older has made it to town.
“There will be beautiful people doing amazing feats of agility and acrobatics and incredible dancers,” Nicholas said.
For Nicholas, Cirque Risque is a new concept. He has done adult, risque shows previously, but not a risque circus. The men will be as naked as the law allows, and the women will be in G-strings, pasties, lingerie and body paint.
Every couple of months, new guest artists will be brought into the shows, so they will evolve, Nicholas said.
Because the Event Pavilion offers air conditioning and heating, the intent is to run all three shows through the fall. Shows also can be performed in the winter, if the ticket demand allows for it, Gomes said.
“Something like this will attract people,” said Gomes, who added that 128 outdoor parking spots will be lost because of the circus.
Susan Voyticky, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been an aerialist for the past 10 years and will perform definitely in Cirque Risque and most likely in Cirque Polynesian. She last performed outdoors with the UniverSoul Circus in 2007 for a tour of the Eastern seaboard, but never in an adults-only circus.
“This will be exciting. ... I hope lots of people come to see the show,” Voyticky said.
People visiting the surface lot in front of Resorts on the North Carolina Avenue side beginning today will see a 60-foot-high, 120-foot-wide tent — the Event Pavilion — which will hold 1,800 people for the circus. It will feature air conditioning and heating, and be like a theater on the inside with high-backed chairs, Nicholas said.
It will house three circuses that will be running simultaneously, the Great American Circus and Cirque Polynesian during the afternoon and evening, respectively, starting July 14, and Cirque Risque: The Naked Circus at night, beginning July 17.
Tickets for all three shows should go on sale Saturday at the Resorts box office and through Ticketmaster outlets and charge by phone.
“I love the circus. I saw (a recording of) the circus that he did in Maui. I was so amazed,” Resorts owner Dennis Gomes said. “I like to do things different than anybody else.”
Forty-five cast members have been hired, and some of them will appear in two of the three shows, Nicholas said.
Twenty performers will be in each cast. The shows will last 75 minutes each. The Great American Circus show has been touring all over the world, and just returned from Asia. The Polynesian show has been staged in Santa Cruz, Calif., and Maui, Hawaii, Nicholas said.
Designed as a family fun show, children’s tickets for the Great American Circus will start at $9, and thousands of children’s tickets will be given away through the casino. The show features the Wheel of Death, husband-and wife crossbow artists, aerial ballerinas and clowns among other attractions. The Great American Circus was passed along to Nicholas from a friend three years ago, said Nicholas, who has produced thousands of shows for the past 20 years all over the world.
Authentic Polynesian warriors, Tahitian and hula dancers will be blended with Cirque artists for Cirque Polynesian, which has been performed for the past seven years in Hawaii and is still going strong, Nicholas said.
Cirque du Soleil performs the adult-themed Zumanity at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The casinos here have hosted adults-only production and revue shows for the past 14 years off and on, but this is the first time a circus for those age 21 and older has made it to town.
“There will be beautiful people doing amazing feats of agility and acrobatics and incredible dancers,” Nicholas said.
For Nicholas, Cirque Risque is a new concept. He has done adult, risque shows previously, but not a risque circus. The men will be as naked as the law allows, and the women will be in G-strings, pasties, lingerie and body paint.
Every couple of months, new guest artists will be brought into the shows, so they will evolve, Nicholas said.
Because the Event Pavilion offers air conditioning and heating, the intent is to run all three shows through the fall. Shows also can be performed in the winter, if the ticket demand allows for it, Gomes said.
“Something like this will attract people,” said Gomes, who added that 128 outdoor parking spots will be lost because of the circus.
Susan Voyticky, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been an aerialist for the past 10 years and will perform definitely in Cirque Risque and most likely in Cirque Polynesian. She last performed outdoors with the UniverSoul Circus in 2007 for a tour of the Eastern seaboard, but never in an adults-only circus.
“This will be exciting. ... I hope lots of people come to see the show,” Voyticky said.
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