"If you wished to see music and dancing as the main attraction - there would be far better places so I would maintain that the circus is never a place where music and dancing are the main attractions. If they did decide to stage Robbie Williams and the Royal Ballet in their tents, this may indeed become regulated entertainment - but then they could hardly still be described as a circus. You could introduce a tiger into an opera - but this would hardly turn opera into a circus. Unless it escaped and ate Pavarotti......"


Also depends on who was reviewing....


Back in the 80s the companies I worked for used to do shows in the "Royal Ballet" big top in Battersea, and laterly in consecutive years presented the Bolshoi Ballet and Moscow state Circus in a huge supertent. Same tent for Circus and Ballet. Are you really telling me that under the current legislation it would be necessary to get a licence for the tent on one occasion but not the other? Even though for both shows the audience capacity was 50% larger than that of the Royal Opera House? If so then someone, somewhere really has lost touch with reality.

I could also argue that music is reduced to the point of being incidental to some modern dance pieces. But really....don't go there.   Cage's three and a half minutes is the tip of very unpleasant iceberg!

Bill