‘Greatest Show’ to end
January 16, 2017, Monday
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RINGLING Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has announced it will host its final show in May, ending “The Greatest Show on Earth” after 146 years.
Company executives cited high operating costs and declining ticket sales after the traveling American circus retired its popular elephants as reasons for drawing the curtain on a celebrated spectacle that traces its origins to politician and showman P.T. Barnum’s first show in 1871. Animal rights groups cheered the move as a success story following decades of activism against the use of animals in the circus.
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