article_snippet: Brown, a shrewd marketer who was also responsible for making Astley's circus a tented traveling show, added a "menagerie" to the event to help combat the form's sometimes seedy reputation.
article_snippet: Brown's show, by adding a menagerie tent to the circus tent, could market adding a menagerie tent to the circus tent shows as educationally uplifting by "showing people the wonders of the animal world," she adds.
article_snippet: They had exotic animals from the four corners of the earth, and you had to go through Menagerie first
article_snippet: There was no way to miss Menagerie -- it was all part of the educational outreach to get people to go to the show.