Carson & Barnes Circus is a forth-generation run show and one of the last remaining “big top” circuses in North America. With over forty acts from such places as the Netherlands, Ukraine, Peru, Africa, Italy and many more, the circus stops in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas, in the early part of the 2009 season, during the last week of March.

Crowds of people gather outside the ticket booth to buy admission for the first Dallas show of the Carson & Barnes Circus, on Tuesday afternoon, March 24, 2009. Carson & Barnes advertise their circus as “clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”