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chops:
I did three shows with the Shriners Circus when I was working at a road house.  We used to do them every year as a benefit.  It was basically a normal show but with elephants and tigers involved.  There was no touring stage manager.  The LD called spot and houselight cues while running the light and sound board.  The MC seemed to run the show and all of the acts staged themselves.  Production manager kept everyone in line but was not part of running the show.  He almost acted like a company manager while the MC acted as the director/stage manager.

Traditional departments, i.e. props, wardrobe, carpentry, ect. did not exist as everyone was fairly self sufficient.  Trapeze artists handled the rigging, animal trainers handled the center ring and the individual acts seemed to run themselves.  There was a five person stagehand call, four spots and one houselights person.  All load in and load out was handled by the circus personnel. 

I was only acting in the capacity of the venue so I didn't get into the inner workings of the circus that much so I don't know if any of this info is relevant or useful but if you need anything more specific I’m sure someone has some experience. 

Oh yeah.  If you are working with a circus, buy air freshener.  Elephants stink really bad.  And your clean up staff will hate you when they see what presents the elephants have left them.  Oh and don't schedule a show two days later and put a rap star in the room where you had the elephants.  They will not be happy. 

ChaCha:
May be of interest;
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,1424.msg9249.html#msg9249

debos23:
ChaCha, that post is fantastic.  Thank you so much for the link!

d.

LCSM:
i agree. thanks so much guys! and i'll remember about the air freshner too chops! ;D

centaura:
While most of the worth in this thread is via its links, I think that's enough reason to keep it near the top of the Other forum.  So its getting stickied up there.

-Centaura

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