The Flying Karamazov Brothers are back on the road following an extended run

of "A Comedy of Errors," with Avner Eisenberg at Lincoln Center 's Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The show was broad­cast live all over the country in June over the Public Broadcasting System.

 

They made the airwaves again in November on the "Dolly" variety show. Their finale was passing torches around the host as she sang "Great Balls of Fire." They toured colleges and civic theatres in the fall, then opened a new show Jan. 9 in Seattle , close to their new home base. They will run a repertory of three shows simultaneously through March 26 there at ACT, A Repertory Theatre. Those will be the old standby shows "Juggle & Hyde" and' 'Cheap Theatricks, " as well as some brand new material tentatively packaged under the title of "The Cabinet of Dr. Karamazov. "

 

"The Cabinet" includes an extension of musical juggling with the addition of electronic melodies. It also features "Jazz 3," the latest update of the Karamazov's anarchic point-passing routine. "It's called 'pointless jazz' because there's no pattern. You can pass from anywhere you want," explained Howard Patterson.

 

The Karamazovs are also producing a film of "Juggle and Hyde" themselves, while talking to at least two major networks about film and variety show projects. Newsweek magazine carried an article on them in November, correctly but tardily noting that the Karamazovs have proven that "juggling can indeed be mainstream entertainment."

 

Three UA members, Stefan Fisher, David Barnes and Mark Somerville, were seen juggling in a recent episode of the television show, "Falcon Crest." Fisher has signed a contract with Roberts Brothers Circus for a 30 week tour beginning in April. He performs "Four, Fabulous, Flaming, Fire torches" as well as magic, unicycling and wire walking.

 

The American Dream, Scotty Meltzer and John Park, won a performing trip to Hong Kong in the fall during a Cannery street performers contest. The San Francisco based duo was to travel with the San Francisco Symphony, the mayor and an Evening Magazine television crew. Other recent activities included performances in Saudi Arabia and aboard a cruise ship to Mexico .

 

The Philippine Pride Jugglers have conducted a heavy schedule of shows in schools throughout the state of Washington since September. Joyce Bonachita, Irlo Macapinguil, Emily Catino and Regina Tayko perform an assembly routine that incorporates Philippine music, costume and dance with tricks like passing between two­high shoulder stands and a 14-club box pattern. They then talk to social studies classes about their lives growing up in the small, rural Philippine village of Cabangahan . They are in this country on a one-year work visa.

 

The short-lived team of Calculated Chaos (David Levesque and Robbie Weinstein) is splitting after an amiable six months together.  Weinstein is returning to college and juggling in Albuquerque, N.M., while Levesque remains in Portland, Ore. Levesque's act incorporates many non-standard props in routines such as his seven scarf juggle and the "Mad Eyeballs. "