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For the Elephants to Enter

For the Elephants to Enter

From left, artists Ana Claudia Dos Santos and Gabriela Cavallini prepare to open the backstage curtain for the elephants to enter the main ring during the show’s finale, on Thursday afternoon, March 26.

The Waiting is the Hardest Part "Clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”  "The tent is enormous." "My whole family is in the circus." "I don’t care what the doctors think."  The Official Carson & Barnes Circus Coloring Book Stretching Together Before the Show Often Working from Dawn to Dusk "I feel comfortable in the air." For the Elephants to Enter Doesn’t Know Where to Look Dismantling the Universe Every Night  Melvino Has Been in Several Circuses