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While every show can be customized to your event here are some of our shows people often request

The Queen of Blades Show

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The Queen of Blades show features the lovely assistants of the sideshow.  This forty-five minute show pits Mr. Crispy’s brave beauties against throwing knives, machetes, and even the classic Sideshow Bladebox.  This show has all the excitement you’ve come to expect of the Crispy Family Carnival with the always present family friendly lighthearted approach.  The Queen of Blades show focuses on a combination of sideshow classics and circus skills in a thrill a minute show that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

This is excitement for children of all ages, a unique combination of skill, strength, and courage.  This show is perfect for carnival themes corporate parties, street fairs, and festivals.  In addition to the daring vixens, Mr. Crispy will display several of the time honored favorites of the sideshow such as fire eating, sword swallowing, and much more.

 

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The Owie Show

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The Owie show is a little more intense with a focus on Mr. Crispy’s modern Fakir* acts.  You’ll see amazing feats of pain and skill including the human pincushion, fire eating, Sword swallowing, the bed of nails, a really twisted take on the William Tell story, and much more.  You’ll even have a chance to show your appreciation by tipping Mr. Crispy via a carpenters staple gun.  The acts may be extreme but all are presented in the Crispy Family Carnival’s unique lighthearted family friendly approach to entertainment.  Acoustic Ross and Mr. Crispy’s beautiful assistant will give the audience a reprieve throughout the show.

The Owie Show is one of the most popular shows for all ages, the children see the humor and think Mr. Crispy is a goofy super hero, the teens are amazed to realize these ancient feats still exist, and the adults thank the heavens Mr. Crispy isn’t their son while secretly enjoying the shock of these timless demonstrations of the bizarre!  This is a show they’ll talk about for years to come.

The Owie Show is also great for high schools or colleges, teachers and professors can use these demonstrations as examples of science, biology, psychology, and even history.**

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 *originally, a mendicant dervish.  Although of Muslim origin, the term has come to be applied in India to Hindus as well, largely replacing gosvamin, sadhu, bhikku, and other designations. Fakirs are generally regarded as holy men who are possessed of miraculous powers, such as the ability towalk on fire.  Today, through years of training, the modern Fakir is a person who performs many of these holy men’s feats showing the body’s remarkable resilience, the ability to perform past pain, and to channel this experience into entertaining demonstrations.

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**These feats require the performer to have a high understanding of the science and biology to understand how to safely perform these feats.  In addition the performer must overcome both primal fears and the bodies natural aversion to these experiences.  Many of these feats originate from ancient times and the art of sideshow itself is very much an American institution.

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