The Ferges Troupe
Posted By thecircusblog on July 30, 2010
It’s not just being good at what you do, it is enjoying what you do. The Ferges Troupe had more fun in their act and the audience knew it. That’s what made their acts great. The Ferges family perfected their acts at a young age on the Ted Dewayne circus in the late 1950’s.
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Ferges Troupe South American winter tours
1974 Attayde …finished tour in their tent
1975 Circo Americano…Puerto Rico…great surfing,had our own car
1976 Circo Americano…Venezuela…
First use of spanish in “Los Pinturas Locos”, our comedy painters act with revolving ladder that gave us a strong second act in our south of the border shows. The Fornisaris, in first Attayde date in 74 Arena De Mexico, teach us spanish with an italian twist which worked perfectly to help pull off our slapstick with vocals that we had used since Dewayne days. In Puerto Rico kids would see us in town walking and would hide and then jump out and deliver lines from the painters act and then run away howling. We took that as a compliment. I don’t remember his name but the drummer and band on that tour just rocked. In Caracas a new member Nancy catches costume on fire in spec number opening nite. She was not injured but her story pales with the elephant stampede that occurred earlier. We got out of the arena just in time to see to see a bunch of them (chained together) run past us and then go thru huge lobby glass windows like they were butter. Welcome to the circus Nancy. After these shows and into the 80s we did our rock trampoline “Acrobat” in other types of arena shows and TV in S. America and carted the “Painters ” along on many. These circuses had truly international performers and we look back at them fondly.