A truly memorable visit to our third Moscow Circus. This one is called the Durov Animal Theatre: http://www.ugolokdurova.ru/
It's most famous for its mice train. You read that correctly. It mildly intrigued us, but the description didn't seem to compare to the Cat Circus we attended a few weeks back. We were just two parents looking for a way to amuse a 5-year-old.
We were wrong about the mice train. We can't make this stuff up. Sasha broke the camera yesteday so we can't send photos. You're going to have to believe us, or wonder what we're drinking.
The scene:
Mice on small train enter stage left.
Mice train meets up with hovering helicopter (on a rope), carrying one bored chubby cat. Ladder drops down from helicopter. Several white mice climb up rope ladder to their own cat-free compartment of helicopter, safe for now. Helicopter crosses stage.
A few minutes later, mice drop out of helicopter, wearing parachutes. They jump into nets held by cast members. Bored cat begins to wonder what he's been drinking.
Act ends.
Sure, just your average day at the circus. Also a sommersaulting bear, four tigers, a raccoon, a "fire" put out by a crew of poodles. And Pomeranians double Dutch rope jumping. Then we went home in a snowstorm. It's late April in Moscow.
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Sheesh, I feel like a wimp. Mice are parachuting out of helicopters; my death-defying stunt today was changing lanes on the 405 freeway in L.A.
You saw the Cat Circus? I need details! I am dying to go.
The Cat circus was great - small space, great clown. Our five year old loved it - I did too and I'm not partial to cats.
Here's the website for the cat circus:
http://www.moscow.info/children/kuklachev-cat-theater.aspx
It's at 25 Kutzovsky Prospekt, a bit of a walk from Kievskaya metro.
Our incredible Russian babysitter bought the tickets, probably by going there in person. So we don't have any horror stories about buying them.
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