Circus Vargas

I 100% support this Circus because I would never EVER take my kids to a circus that involves animals because we (well, most of us) know how circus animals are treated (& no I am not PETA, I am against animals being treated inhumanely). I love that the simplicity of an old fashioned circus can still entertain without using animals, and my kids enjoyed it. It’s not Circue du Soleil people, and you also aren’t paying $ 100+ a ticket so sit back, relax & watch a guy being shot out of a cannon. Simple fun, kids loved it! Kudos for taking the animals out of the cages Circus Vargas!

This was my first circus, and I had a great time. Loved the clown (s). Also enjoyed the acrobatics. Husband and I might be inspired to check out the trampoline park nearby because the act was so fun to watch.
This was a great time for kids. They really make an effort to have fun with the kids in the audience, which I totally applaud them for.

Our 5 year old son had the greatest time! Very interactive and very entertaining for adults as well.

The reviewer below is extremely over critical– and I was really offended at how he described the female performers (old??). The acts were not sexual at all and I cannot believe that this reviewer thinks a children’s show is sexual. Perv!
Back to the review…
I went today to the 1:30 pm showing of the circus with my boyfriend and his mother.
Yes, there was one time that the trapeze trick wasn’t properly completed. However the juggling mishap was OBVIOUSLY part of the act, and he clearly kills the trick the next time around.
It was a fun circus, nothing crazy over the top, but I was definitely not under whelmed and I enjoyed every minute. So did my boyfriend (who usually hates things like this) and his mother (who loves things like this).
Definitely look for discount tickets though– $ 26 is a bit steep. We got ours for half online through a discount website.

this rating is simply because i expected to see animals… there were no animals with soever. I google it and apparently as of 2010, circus Vargas no longer uses animals in their show because of PETA. Im not mad, thats probably whats best for the animals, but i just would have liked if vargas made it clear there are no animals involved. as far as the show goes, it was good, funny, lots of talented ppl. show last about 2.5 hrs long.

The Torrance show (from November 8 – 19) says it’s at the Fashion Center, but they should’ve been more clear that it’s on the Fashion Way street parking lot near the Marriott Hotel.
I couldn’t find it at first because I was on the Eastside of the mall, on Del Amo Cir N street (where it looks like the main outside entrance to the Fashion Center), where they also had some misleading tents near that parking lot too; from there, the buildings blocked the actual tent/​parking lot, so it was confusing.
My review is going to be strictly from an adult’s perspective. So if you’re thinking about going and don’t have any kids, you might want to think twice.
Well, my date and I was really disappointed. I really was not expecting much at all before the show. I knew what I was going into, yet I was still disappointed.
In short, there were lots of sloppy performances — almost everyone failed when it came to their bigger attempts (need more practice or maybe they were all exhausted?) — and the acts itself were just mostly underwhelming.
If you don’t mind watching somewhat mundane outdated tricks, or easily impressed, then maybe it’s for you.
There’s really only about 7 main acts.
1. Juggler
— This young man juggles 8 balls — he failed on his first attempt but succeeded on his 2^nd try.
2. Hula Hoop Girl
— Ok, this one is definitely not just for kids… if you know what I mean. (Oh wow, I sound like a perv. Maybe I am? Ok, I am.) At least something for the guys to look at. :D She looks kind of old, but her body says otherwise with all that hula hooping.
Oh, one of the previous juggler’s ball fell from above for some reason during her performance. She puts 19 hula hoops around her. She did drop one on the ground & it almost seemed like the whole thing was about to go down too, but she recovered.
She also takes 4 hula hoops while in the air.
* After that, the clown comes out and picks out an adult female voluenteer. If your date gets picked to go up there, don’t let her unless you don’t mind the clowns getting touchy with her. Some uptight parents might get offended by this act; it gets kind of sexual with everyone trying to hit on the girl & there’s some bad manners with spitting/​splashing water in each other’s faces. It’s supposed to be funny.
They picked the right voluenteer for our show. She was great. One of the guy does PSY Gangnam style dance. Pretty up-​to-​date.
3. A Tron-​like-​theme-​Kind-​of-​a-​ghetto-​Cirque-​Du-​Soleil-​like act
— I think the adults can kind of enjoy this one. This was the ONLY act (besides the final rocket act) where nobody messed anything up.
But it’s not that breathtaking, since they’re not that high up. This one felt the most refined.
* Clown comes out again/​picks a kid out to voluenteer to kill some time while they setup the next act
4. Motorcycle Ball Cage
— Mr./Mrs. Garcia spin around on their bikes inside the cage. I was surprised to see the same Hula Hoop girl was on the bike. It was ok. They didn’t put anyone to stand in the cage; that would have added more thrill factor to the show.
* There’s like at least a 10 – 15 minute break for them to setup the next trapeze act.
5. Flying Trapeze
— Disappointing again. The main trapeze artist (Christopher Reese) tried to do a triple somersault but couldn’t grab on to the catcher. He would’ve been dead or injured if there were no saftey nets. Nothing most people haven’t seen before. Mostly swinging around and two or three catches. There’s a lot of falling on to the saftey net. I didn’t quite understand the point of watching everyone falling down to the saftey net one by one.
* After the trapeze, they have another Clown act where they picked 4 voluenteers
They picked really great voluenteers for this one… it almost seemed too good like they were part of the crew. They acted out like they were on a movie set. The voluenteers made the show good. They all did an excellent job. It was actually pretty funny. Kind of sad to say, but these fill-​in clown acts were more entertaining than the main circus acts; I would have thought it would be the other way around.
6. Tightrope balancing guy
— Again, the tightrope is just too low off the ground. The guy fell on his first attempt to jump rope off the rope (wow, that sounds weird) and also his main attempt to do a blackflip and land on the rope. He didn’t try again.
7. Rocket Man
— They build up a lot of anticipation for this one, but the payoff is so underwhelming.
They REALLY need to add in pyrotechnics for this last act. There is nothing rocket about it.
I paid $ 13 with the Living Social deal (regularly $ 26), but I STILL feel it wasn’t really worth it. For what it is, I feel the show is really worth about $ 5. But even at that price, I probably wouldn’t go see it again. They should lower the price and they’ll probably get a bigger crowd too.
I’m reaching my 5000 word limit, so I need to post the rest of my review with a second post… (if I can figure that out…)