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Roll the dice, whirl the spinner, and join the ultimate circus showdown—The 2025 Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour: Game On! This high-energy, action-packed spectacular brings your favorite board games to life with daring circus acts, playful twists, and nonstop fun for all ages!

Step inside the Big Top and enter a world where anything can happen! The checkerboard bursts with acrobats leaping and tumbling while aerial chess queens plot their next bold moves high above. Contortionists twist into impossible shapes as a barrel of monkeys swings to the trapeze! Chaos and comedy erupts as jugglers race through a candy-colored wonderland—and clowns dodge a life-sized mouse trap! Is something sinister brewing in the library with the candlestick? Keep your eyes out for the man in the top hat — he’s dishing out $200 every time someone passes GO!

Every summer, a freshly auditioned company of Smirkus Troupers, ages 10 to 18, take to the road in traditional mud show fashion for a two-month performance tour of New England. Backed by professional coaches, cooks, musicians and crew, our Smirkus perform to sell-out crowds in Circus Smirkus’ very own 750-seat European-style one-ring big top tent. There are no animals in this event.

The Smirkus midway tent opens one hour before showtime and features Smirkus novelties and food concessions that include popcorn, pretzels, cotton candy, ice cream, Italian ice, bottled water/lemonade/iced tea. Our popcorn is popped in coconut oil. We do not sell peanuts.

Only food and drinks purchased in our concessions are allowed in the big top tent. Personal water bottles are permitted, but there is no water source to refill on site.


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