Bello is back with The Big Apple Circus

The Big Apple Circus returns to Eisenhower Park for 35 performances, June 11 through July 4, with Bello Nock – named “America’s Best Clown” by Time magazine – and his entourage of international circus artists under the Big Top. In Bello is Back! the playfully elegant Bello, with his gravity-defying hair, trademark tuxedo, white gloves and spats, returns to the one-ring intimacy of the Big Apple Circus after an absence of nine seasons. With thrilling feats of derring–do and stylish sense of whimsy, Bello will astound and delight one and all! On the “Welcome Back Bello” committee: the lovable star clown Grandma, the spirited Big Apple Circus Band, and winning new ringmaster Kevin Venardos, joined by spectacular acrobats from Italy, Russian wizards of the trampoline and the flying trapeze, a graceful flight on the aerial silks, fiery steeds and cavorting canines, playful Chinese contortionists, and Picaso Jr., the sensational Spanish juggler.

Tickets start at $15: available at (888) 541-3750 or www.bigapplecircus.org. Tickets can also be purchased at Long Island Children’s Museum (Museum Row, Garden City). The circus box office in Eisenhower Park opens June 10. Eisenhower Park, Parking Field 6A, East Meadow.