Attractions / Blackpool News Are you The Blackpool Tower Circus’s Star of the Future? 11 June 2018 by Visit Blackpool The Blackpool Tower Circus wants to find its Star of the Future. Could you fill the big shoes of the legendary Mooky, can you juggle five balls, rings and more unusual items or perform incredible hair-raising tricks on a high-wire? Perhaps you can amaze the judges with some unicycle trickery or illusions and magic? If you think you could be The Blackpool Tower Circus’s next big thing, the attraction wants to see videos of hopefuls performing circus skills by sending in a video and telling them why you’re the next circus star. A panel made up of circus stars and staff from The Blackpool Tower will be holding auditions in The Blackpool Tower Circus, on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th July. The winner of the Circus 250 Star of the Future talent search will go on to perform with the Endresz family on Friday 13th July. The search for a rising star of circus has been launched as Blackpool prepares for a summer of celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the first circus performed in 1782 in Paris. Blackpool is one of six UK cities to take part in Circus 250 along with Bristol, Great Yarmouth, London, Belfast and Newcastle. There are events, parades and celebrations taking place around the globe. Resident clowns, Mooky and Mr. Boo have been performing at The Blackpool Tower for 27 years and have audiences laughing in between the acts, who come from around the globe to perform in the most famous circus in the UK. Death-defying tightrope walks, feats of amazing acrobatics and breath-taking stunts are preformed , along with gags and classic high-jinx. Kenny Mew, general manager at The Blackpool Tower, said: “For 124 years, The Blackpool Tower Circus has been performing and entertaining people. “The Endresz family have been wowing us every year for more than two decades but the time has come to find somebody with a hidden talent.” To apply, please send videos telling The Blackpool Tower why you should be the Circus 250 Star of The Future to enterblackpool@merlinentertainments.biz Tickets for the circus show are available online at www.theblackpooltower.com