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2025 Big Top Tour: Game On!

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    • 1PM
      $40
      Cumberland Fairgrounds
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      $40
      Cumberland Fairgrounds
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      Cumberland Fairgrounds
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Roll the dice, whirl the spinner, and join the ultimate circus showdown—The 2025 Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour: Game On! This high-energy, action-packed spectacular brings your favorite board games to life with daring circus acts, playful twists, and nonstop fun for all ages!

Step inside the Big Top and enter a world where anything can happen. The checkerboard bursts with acrobats leaping and tumbling while aerial chess queens plot their next bold moves high above. Contortionists twist into impossible shapes as a barrel of monkeys swings to the trapeze. Chaos and comedy erupts as jugglers race through a candy-colored wonderland—and clowns dodge a life-sized mouse trap. Is something sinister brewing in the library with the candlestick? Keep your eyes out for the man in the top hat — he’s dishing out $200 every time someone passes GO!

From gravity-defying flips to hilarious hijinks, this game is full of surprises—and the only rule? Expect the unexpected! It’s your turn now—so get ready to have fun! When Circus Smirkus is in town, it’s always GAME ON!

Please Note: This event is rain or shine. Seating is bleachers under a circus tent. Accessible seating is available on the ground level for anyone who can’t climb bleachers.

ADULT and CHILD 12 & UNDER prices are available for this event online.
This performance is not eligible for student, senior, or Member discounts.
Free tickets for Infants UNDER 2 are available via phone and in person.
Ticket prices are subject to change and include a per ticket service fee, depending on ticket price.

August 8 – 9, 2025

Tickets

$40
*before fees

Venue

Cumberland Fairgrounds

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Special performances

PLEASE NOTE: This performance is NOT eligible for Member, Student, or Senior discounts.

Adult & Children 12 & Under prices only.

cumberland
fairgrounds

The Cumberland Fairgrounds will host the Circus Smirkus 750-seat European-style one-ring big top tent.

Wheelchair Accessible
Concessions
Venue Parking
Address

197 Blanchard Rd
Cumberland, ME 04021

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