LIVE: NEW OLD TIME CHAUTAUQUA (Kids get in free!)

The Circus is back in town! Come down to the Lincoln Theatre for the return of the New Old Time Chautauqua!

FREE for kids 12 and under!

The Port Townsend-based New Old Time Chautauqua is putting on its marching shoes and getting ready to strut its stuff at a benefit performance at the Mount Vernon’s Lincoln Theatre.

Yes, at last the Vaudeville shows of all Vaudeville shows returns to Mount Vernon for the most amazing spectacular variety show of the year. This year's entertainmentalooza will feature:

- Members of the legendary juggling troupe the Flying Karamazov Brothers
- Artis the Spoonman of Soundgarden fame
- Guitarist, singer, and Artistic Director of Seattle's Moisture Festival, Harry Levine
- Wren the Juggler, juggler extraordinaire (and star of Wheel of Fortune and winner of $41,000 on Trivial Pursuits)
- Award-winning LA magician Steve Owen
- Singer-songwriter Kym Trippsmith
- Bandleader and man-about-town Doc Sprinsock
- Guinness Book of World Records holder The Great Noodlini
- And some too-hot-to-touch surprise guests all making such a ruckus of laughter and awe as hasn't been seen such last year!
- Holding down the fort with panache and pizazz will be the Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band / Orchestra, now in their 51st year of being the best Vaudeville Band ever, in the world, by far!!!

THE RETURN OF "THE GAMBLE"

Dmitri Karamazov will be challenging the City of Mount Vernon to come up with three objects for him to juggle.

If Dmitri can keep the objects, chosen by the audience, in the air for 10 counts he wins a standing ovation. If he loses he gets a pie in the face!

RULES:

- Must weigh more than an ounce (28 grams)
- Must weigh less than 10 pounds (4.5 kg)
- Must be no bigger than a breadbox
- Must not be a live animal
- Must not be able to stop the Dmitri from being a live animal
- Dmitri gets 3 tries, and can modify the objects 3 times.

In the past, objects have ranged from a dead octopus to full cakes to Slinkys™ to blocks of ice! Mount Vernon -- the honor of your town is at stake, do your worst!!!