Review: Circus Oz - Cranked Up 2013

Photo: Rob Blackburn

They've taken over Birrarung Marr for the next while ahead of a tour into regonal Victoria, the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia.

Circus Oz is 'cranked up' and in a celebratory mood for their 35th birthday, and you're invited to the party.

Read my review on Weekend Notes here.

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They're amazing, they're talented and they're having a birthday.

Circus Oz are 'Cranked Up' for their 35th year, and the show in The Big Top on Birrarung Marr in Melbourne promises to be fun, funky and irreverent.

What else would we expect from this iconic Australian juggernaut?

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The weather was undecided, the hard-hatted media had to negotiate building site puddles, but the Circus OZ troupe didn’t miss a beat when they posed for the cameras in Melbourne yesterday ahead of World Circus Day on Saturday 20^th of April.

And Circus Oz has several reasons to skite. The company, that has become something of an Australian institution, is back from its US Tour that included five weeks of standing ovations in New York. In the company’s 35^th year, Cranked Up will open in its hometown of Melbourne in June, before moving into a brand new home in Johnston Street Collingwood. 

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