Circus Circus

A A A Comments By Susan Froyd Thursday, Jan 5 2012

It's a long way from the Ringling big top to the Coney Island Circus Side Show, but the latter is possibly the more historically correct -- or, at the very least, the most extreme: Its strong men truly freak us out with their feats, and its pretty boys are carnival jacks-of-all-trades who eat fire and juggle swords with equal aplomb. Two of those consummate Coney Island performers -- Ray Valenz, the Most Handsome Man, and Baron Von Geiger, the World's Strangest Strongman -- make up two-thirds of the Circus Emporium Roadshow, along with a third member, burlesque queen Lefty Lucy; all three will appear tonight at 3 Kings Tavern with their Circus Emporium Odd-itorium, a bona fide museum of curiosities, in tow.

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3 Kings Tavern

60 S. Broadway
Denver, CO 80209

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: South Denver

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What happens in a throwback circus such as this? Von Geiger's strongman deeds include lifting an anchor using fish hooks in his eyelids, while Valenz, who claims to be the grand-nephew of early rocker Richie Valens, climbs a machete ladder with the greatest of ease; Lucy offers hinky hijinx of the barely clothed variety. And the museum features such items as a stuffed mongoose and cobra in mid-battle, shrunken heads, and something hideous that's rumored to be P.T. Barnum's long-lost Feejee mermaid.

The show begins at 9 p.m. at 3 Kings, 60 South Broadway, and admission is $7; visit www.facebook.com/thecircusemporiumroadshow or call 3 Kings at 303-777-7352 for information.
Tue., Jan. 10, 9 p.m., 2012

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