From political puppets to mustached musicians to daring Downside-Uppers, Happy Pill Circus No. 4 was a stomping, hooting, singing success! The Primate Fiasco alternated musical sets with Bread & Puppet’s theatrical puppet-tastic offerings, making for a varied and engaging Circus experience. Despite the lack of room [...]]]>

clowning around backstage at the Academy of Music

From political puppets to mustached musicians to daring Downside-Uppers, Happy Pill Circus No. 4 was a stomping, hooting, singing success! The Primate Fiasco alternated musical sets with Bread & Puppet’s theatrical puppet-tastic offerings, making for a varied and engaging Circus experience. Despite the lack of room for dancing in the packed old-style opera house theatre, kids and grown-ups alike crowded into the aisles to do-si-do and clap along to the music, then cheered and gasped at the skits and songs of Bread and Puppet.

Our clowning, acrobatics, and juggling onstage to the Primate Fiasco’s music got huge cheers from the audience, as did Hoop Master Sass’s hula hooping. The show climaxed with a parade of all the performers down off the stage, through the audience, and outside onto the street, surprising the quiet Northampton Sunday night with a rollicking community dance party. Video and more photos of the night are on their way!

Thanks to the audience for their energy and the performers for their kinship – and major props to Dave from Primate Fiasco for pulling the whole thing together!