Music Circus tent raising

 

For 52 years, until 2002, the Sacramento Music Circus canvas tent was raised every summer by hand. One of the legendary musical theatre summer stock, Music Circus was the last professional theatre in the round under canvas. In 2003 a new enclosed, tent theatre opened under teflon-coated fiberglass fabric -- The Wells Fargo Pavilion -- ending an era, but beginning a new one.