Performing Arts Appreciator Gifts

Trapeze artist finds his partner has quit in the middle of a performance.

"God, I hope no one asks me to sing."

Modern Major General

'How's everyone doing tonight - that is the question.'

Theatre Crowd

Brünnhilde's Funeral Pyre

"How do I know this isn't a performance art piece?"

"Just when you're about to lose faith in humanity, you see Shakespeare in the Park."

Comedy Ballet of Marionettes I (Oil Version in Tate Known as 'A Caprice'

Marcel Marceau's parrot

Koko pleads with the Mikado

I Pagliacci

1,572 Performances.

"Donner and Blitzen are just our stage names."

'Magnolia, Michaelangelo, the ceiling was meant to be magnolia!'

People chasing a street performer to give money.

"The first rule of miming is you don't talk about miming."

She did only twenty-eight of the thirty-two fouetts in the Black Swan pas de deux . . . or are my eyes deceiving me?

The Costumer Is Always Right

Funding Cuts for the Arts

Eggs portrayed in different art media.

"It's Shakespeare, Mother - please do't keep moaning 'Oh get on with it'!"

"The Flying Wallendas at home"

"Yikes. I'm on in five minutes and still haven't figured out my character's motivation."

Can Can

"Those who can can, dance."

"He's a rescue, and before that he was in Vaudeville."

'He can toot his own horn but when he starts tooting the government's we need to step in.'

"So. Are you a mime, a puppeteer, or a ventriloquist?"

'Son I want you to Follow in My Footsteps.'

"I got replaced by another clown"

Rock and roll singer with old mike and three backing singers.

The clown loses it at the circus and takes the 'fat lady' hostage with a cream pie 'I'm not clowning this time, back-off or the fat-lady gets it!'

James Levine

"Tonight Mathew, I'm going to be, Charlotte Church"