The Flying Cat Circus can best be described as comedy with some magic and juggling sprinkled on top.
The driving force behind the act is Kevin Lepine and Thom Britain.
Kevin, a native of Detroit, Michigan is an accomplished magician and illusionist who has been performing for about ten years. He started performing in a number of theatrical productions where he had the opportunity to meet various magicians. "Ever since then, I just fell in love with the art. I developed a great love for the art of magic and performing comedy."
Thom, who claims he was sold into slavery at the age of eight and had to be funny to survive, grew up on Johnny Carson, George Carlin, Sam Kinnison and the like. "It's the standard 'comedy is a gateway drug that leads to performing,' so I started doing anything I could that was entertaining. I got into the circus sideshow style genre; things like sword swallowing, fire eating and glass walking. The stuff from the 1930's really caught my attention. Now I focus on a Vaudeville style of performing, but back then I was really interested in the freak show side of things. Then, as I got older I started to get into more of the Vaudeville acts like the Chinese Circus and the Russian Circus. Now, in just the last five or six years, I have started putting the stand-up comedy routines into what I do."
What can be expected when The Flying Cat Circus comes to perform every show has a huge comedy element. It is framed so that you don’t have your standard magic or juggling show with sparsely spaced jokes throughout the routine; comedy is king. The novelty of illusion or glass walking is secondary to the delivery of a quality comedy show. "We are not juggling while telling jokes," Thom explains, "We are telling jokes and just happen to be juggling."
Some of their inspiration come from Penn & Teller, Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld and Colin Quinn.
The Flying Cat Circus will be adding new people, which brings new blood and new acts to the group, they are also making more detailed background design, basically all theatre aesthetics......At this point The Flying Cat Circus has already been approached by different theatre companies who are interested in contracting with the duo , but currently they really want to stay on the college circuit. Their goal is to become the best, to dominate the college market, to have a lot of fun and to see where they go from there. They would have no problem following the Penn & Teller route, off-Broadway, or on-Broadway, but at this point the college market has just been wonderful to them and they would like to stay for awhile.
Their ultimate long-term goal would be to do an off-Broadway production in a fairly small venue where they would be comfortable working a long running show.
Acts Performed
Sword Swallowing - Fire Eating - Magician and Illusion - Glass Walking
Sleight of Hand - Puppetry - Dance - Stand Up Comedy - Sketch Comedy - And More!
