The Big Circus The Big Circus The Big Circus is a 1959 film starring Victor Mature as a circus owner struggling with financial trouble and a murderous unknown saboteur. It was produced and co-written by Irwin Allen, later known for a series of big-budget disaster films. Hank Whirling (Mature) needs a bank loan to keep his Whirling Circus going. He gets it from a stuffy New York City bank, but only on the condition he take along accountant Randy Sherman (Red Buttons) and publicist Helen Harrison (Rhonda Fleming) to help the circus turn a profit. Hank's top act is the Colino trapeze troupe,
Big Apple Circus 7, 2018. Additionally, the circus announced that following the New York performances, a national tour will take place. It was announced in May 2017 that "Grandma the Clown", played by Barry Lubin, would return for the 40th anniversary season and that the new ringmaster will be Tyron McFarlan. On January 23, 2018, Lubin announced that he would resign from the circus due to sexual misconduct with an underage teen from 2004. In September, 2018, Big Apple Circus announced that Bindlestiff Family Cirkus owner, Stephanie Monseu is the new Ringmistress for Big Apple Circus. Following the circus' emergence from bankruptcy in