Mr. Woodcock ran two picture today. One of the old Ringling, and one of the new, with the statement if you had a choice of a free ticket, which show would you choose to see? Below are the typical none constructive comments, yet the important issues, salary, generated revenue, being a few of the important ones, are shot down faster then a clay pigeon flung out of a launcher. The sad thing of it is, when you attempt to write personal history to meet your agenda, you damage an already shaky industry, that you profess to love.
Here are the posts to date, on the new Ringling picture and the one which was censored. You decide based on the fact's, should it have been censored.
8 comments:
Anonymous commenting after Johnny,
You should use a name, that we we would know who we were addressing. That said, you hit it aces with the marketing strategy statement. Research has shown that a "gradual weaning" is much less damaging to the psyche, then "cold turkey". Unless it is an addiction, then "cold turkey" is the best avenue.
Bob Cline,
"business is one thing, but this is being driven by a sense of greed? Are you suggesting that that is wrong? Are you suggesting also, that a performer needing more then a -35% basic cost of living increase is also greedy?
Eric,
"little kids who are taken to see this show, will go home thinking that all circus's are like this?" Which one isn't like this and which one hasn't downsized? And don't give me examples of shows which are government/state /funded/subsidized. Because the one ring tent show is not what we are morning here today.
Wade Burck
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You might all have your thoughts on why this mundane/done a 1000 times thread, was started and why this post was censored, but consider this in your judgment. I am assuming that Eric is Eric Jaeger, a friend of Mr. Woodcocks, and an associate of the Big Apple Circus, which gave Mr. Woodcock, as has been stated often, many years of wonderful employment. As opposed to Ringling, where you are supposed to be forever if you are the best, the Bastards!!!!!!! Just a thought, and I may be wrong, but consider it when you repeat circus history.
Wade Burck
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How come they didnt finnish the outside of the GIANT 1/2 ring? Jim Zajicek
Hey! Jim Z. You beat me to it, but here it is anyway.
"No wonder they don't use a ring curb, they didn't finish building it yet"!
Maybe someone should send them Jake Conover"s address.
I am not a fan of the New Cole-style ringless arena.
I wasn't when New Cole introduced it; I'm not now that Ringling has adopted it.
Better that they move the curtain to the halfway point in the arena and perform all three editions as high quality one-ring shows with some
top notch clowning to cover the set changes.
You are so right. What in the world are they thinking presenting this anything more than the beginning of scaffolding? I now business is one thing, but is this being driven by a sense of greed instead? There's nothing being spent on making the show "The Greatest Show on Earth". I'm sorry but when their one ring "Gold Unit" is the best of the three, by far,.....
Bob
I wonder what the public thinks when the see that set up before the show starts. Maybe the truck hauling the rest of it broke down or someone in the last town forgot to load it. I assume the Felds are highly intelligent, well educated people, but that is rediculous no matter how you look at it. Rhodes scolar or Goof.Obviously thet got one a them globes. Every little circus, carnival and fair has one.
Strategy or what? Making the Gold the strongest might be a way to wean the public from a three ring to no ring to one ring circus format for all future editions of RBBB. Then all we will have are GOLD UNIT shows criss-crossing the country.
Anyone want to venture a guess at how much it costs to sit in a folding chair behind two other rows of folding chairs? Reminds me of a Christmas paegant at a church hall.
It gives one the impression that this show was conceived and produced by people who really don't like circuses but who know that they will be able to entice people to buy tickets, using the Ringling-Barnum name as the lure. (I wonder how much repeat business they get?) It's sad to think that the little kids who are taken to see this show will go home thinking that all circuses are like this.