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Really? What about the great clown Hymie Ishkibibble?
Actually, a quick Google search reveals a company called Circus Salaam Shalom, which must have at least one Jewish member. And this article mentions “…Crug and Kesselman, as well as Cohen, are three of several Jews active at the Circus Center, a professional training ground.” Admittedly, the same article does express some surprise with Jews being in the circus.
Hey, we don’t mean to nitpick. It’s not like we think all theater has to be completely realistic (they don’t ACTUALLY kill a cat at the beginning of ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’). But with a title like that, we had to say SOMETHING. Oy vey.

HIGHBROW ENTERTAINMENT
presents
“JEWS DON’T JOIN THE CIRCUS”
BETH KAPLAN BONGAR’S
BRUTALLY HONEST
PITCH-PERFECT
HYSTERICALLY FUNNY BALANCING ACT
THAT IS ONE WOMAN’S FAMILY
&
THE DEVASTATING EFFECT THAT FAMILY HAD ON BETH AND ANYONE ELSE THAT CROSSED THEIR PATH

OPENS
JULY 26th
as part of the
MIDTOWN INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

DIRECTED BY CHERYL KING

BETH KAPLAN BONGAR is a comedian, a clown, a director, a producer, a juggler, a performance artist, a daughter, a sister, a mother and a woman.

It’s the being a woman part that is particularly highlighted in her brutally honest, pitch-perfect and hysterically funny balancing act entitled “JEWS DON’T JOIN THE CIRCUS”.

Well they do. Just ask Beth. Then ask her why she joined up.

Then ask her what she did when she got there and they let her into the CENTER RING !

BETH was born into a devastatingly unique family with whom she lived for eighteen years before escaping to the circus.
Before “joining up” BETH always believed the advertisements that described the circus as being THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.

Three months into her “run” she discovered that claim was false.

It was her FAMILY that deserved that label.

This show is about BETH’s juggling act between the TWO GREATEST SHOWS ON EARTH and the “life” she snuck in amongst the battles.

THE THEATRE INFORMATION
&
THE PLAYING SCHEDULE

WHERE EAGLES DARE THEATRE
347 West 36th Street
(between Eighth & Ninth Avenues)

Wednesday July 26th @ 8:30 pm
Sunday July 30th @ 4:15 pm
Sunday August 6th @ 11:45 am

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets to all shows are $18.00.

$15.00 for students and seniors.

Reservations can be made by calling 212-868-4444
or
by going to www.smarttix.com.