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The Vanardo Circus,

The Magical Musical Traveling Circus of Your Dreams,

one of the catch phrasesph used to describe it.

Actually, my favorite of all of them is,

the little circus that could.

That's Kevin Vanados, ringmaster and founder of the Vanardo Circus. Yes, circuses can be

startups too. Before he started his traveling circus, Kevin was already at the top.

I got a job out of college as the Ringmaster

for the Ringling Brothers in Barnhillon-Baley Circus.

I had found a dream that I never had that kind of came true.

Oh, it really did come true.

I was at Madison Square Garden with the greatest show on earth.

When the greatest show on earth took its final bow, Kevin set out to build a stage of his own.

Years later, I started a little show. I convinced the LA County Fair to buy a show that didn't exist yet.

And then I went out and made it happen.

I was a 30 minute circus musical in a degrees outdoors and me and a small cast put on a

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