But the strongmen and sword swallowers who perform at the Coney Island CircusSideshow will be out of work until May 24, when owner Dick Zigun is able to open the first floor of the landmark building that houses it as well as a bar, gift shop and dressing room destroyed by Sandy.
To answer that, one would have to probe the very essence of reality television, which seems to be entering its Baroque period, ornamentation and excess having caused the sideshow to outgrow the circus.