performance "an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays." Drawing inspiration from the emerging New Vaudeville movement, acts could vary to include fire eating, dance, juggling, mime, parables, wire-walking and single trapeze, aerial roman rings, magic (including a version of Harry Houdini's Milk Can Escape) and clown antics. Off-season, funding and alumni In the Seventies, summer months were spent at Santa Clara University rehearsing with the new cast members while recuperating after the hectic 10-month performance schedule. In 1980, the show's training quarters were relocated at the Jesuit Novitiate property in Montecito, near Santa Barbara. Ongoing operations received substantial help from the California Province of the Jesuits during training periods and with capital outlay for the show's vehicles. Other substantial support came from passing the hat for voluntary audience contributions, board and room accommodations from en route host families, along with stipends paid by student associations and other performance sponsors. Many alumni continued street performing or even transitioned into working in mainstream circuses and theater companies or other media related employment. Prominent examples include Dana Smith, Steve Aveson, Bill Cain, Joey Joey Colon, Kevin Curdt, Carlo Gentile, Darren Peterson, Jens Larson, Jim Jackson, Mary Nagler Hildebrand and Carlo Pellegrini, Nanci Olesen, John and Paul Hadfield, Juanita Madrigal, Jody Ellis, Stefan Fisher and Eric Wilcox. References Further reading Weber, Nick. The Circus that Ran Away with a Jesuit Priest: Memoir of a Delible Character. Dog Ear Publishing, 2012. External links Dana Smith Jody Ellis Carlo Pellegrini Weber, Don. “Royal Lichtenstein Circus” contemporary review of the May 19, 1975, performance on the commons of the University of Dayton, published in Circus Report June 2, 1975—p. 2. YouTube videos on RLC and Zoppé Family Circus Society of Jesus 20th century in California History of Santa Barbara, California Street theatre Circuses