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General Information
Performance Highlights
London Children’s Festival, Canadian Lakehead Exhibition, Ice Fest Superbowl XL, Regina Children’s Festival, Lake Compounce Theme Park, Ontario Science Centre, Burlington Children’s Festival, Sault St. Marie Canada Day Celebrations, Labrador City First Night, Cullen Gardens, Windsor Rotary Children’s Festival, Western Fair Family New Years Eve Celebration,
Casino Windsor, Blenheim Children’s Festival, Blues Fest, Elmira Fair, Caledonia Fair, Paris Fair, Chatham Fair, International Freedom Festival, Blues Fest, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor Public Libraries, Essex County Public Libraries, Cambridge Fair, Beamsville Strawberry Festival, Dresden Fair, Kingsville Migration Festival, Waterford Pumpkin Festival, Mohawk College, Pumpkin Fest. Southampton, Tecumseh Corn Festival,
Harrow Fair, Downtown Windsor BIA, Tecumseh BIA, Essex Fun Fair, Essex BIA, Kingsville Migration Festival, Leamington Fair, Southwestern Regional Centre, The Town of Tecumseh, Georgetown BIA, Amherstburg Free Wheelin’ Festival A complete list is available upon request.
Concert
Series
NAC Orchestra- Ottawa, Port Hope Friends of Music Family Series, ON, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Children’s Series-Grosse Pointe MI, Capitol Theatre.
Theater
Miss Saigon, Windsor Light Opera, Beauty and the Beast, Dancer - WLO, Suessical the Musical The Cat - WLO, Vagina Monologues, Capitol Theatre, Princess and the Pea, Princess Grisellda, Windsor Theatre Festival, 100 years of Broadway, Soloist - WLO, Evita Chorus - WLO, Applause, Bonnie - WLO, Barnum, Boss Clown - WLO, Mame, Gooch - WLO
Awards
Crooked Board Award, Beauty and the Beast, John H. L Watson Award, Suessical the Musical, Top Clown & Clowns Choice Clowns Canada, Top 10 Performance Kingston Buskers Rendezvous, Company Light Barnum, Director’s Light Mame, Single Clown Skit, Midwest Clown Roundup, Duo Clown Skit Midwest Clown Roundup
ETC. Featured or appeared on…
Definetly not the Opera CBC Radio, “It’s a living” CBC, CLaroL’s Clubhouse, Shaw Cable, Showtime with CLaroL Capitol Theatre Windsor,
Royal Hanneford Circus, Detroit Auto Show…
A complete list of events and shows is available upon request.
Education
Graduate University of Windsor SODA, Drama Communication.
Student of Sigfrido Aguilar, Mime and Movement Theatre.
Trained under Ringling Brothers Master Clowns, Leon McBride, Frosty Little.
Skills
Driving, skating, juggling, plate spinning, dancing, miming, riding a bike, tap dancing, magic, gymnastics, whistling, playing the bells, marketing a show, walking on stilts, crossing my eyes, walking into doors, twisting balloons, face painting, theatrical making-up, rising to the occasion.
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Curriculum Vitae
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CLaroL -Carol
Crooks- is an award winning clown who has performed in a circus,
on stage and in the streets of Canada, the USA, Mexico & Central
America. But, she is no clown off the street. CLaroL holds an
Hon. degree in Drama & Communications Studies from the University
of Windsor. She is also a student of renowned mime Sigfrido
Aguilar.
In 2002, CLaroL’s shows and workshops became an integral
part of the Ontario Science Centre exhibit, Circus! In this same
year became a member artist with the Learning Through the Arts
program, and facilitated a week long clown workshop for children,
and a balloon sculpture exhibit at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Her comedy stage show has taken her to North America’s
oldest amusement park, Lake Compounce (A Kennywood Theme Park
2000 & 2001), and to Labrador City, (2001) Newfoundland!
If you are a media savvy you would have seen her featured on CBC
TV - It’s a Living, CKLW, Young Country FM, and CBC Radio
1, Windsor.
A co-producer of SLapstick SiLLies, CLaroL hooked up with Bob
"Bobo" Ammon and shared centre ring and centre stage at the
Palace of Auburn Hills with the Royal Hanneford Circus, Michigan
Children's Theatre, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, and at the
National Arts Centre with Canada's National Symphony. SLapstick
SiLLies was voted one of the top ten acts at the Kingston Busker
Rendezvous in 1995. CLaroL is a columnist for the Variety Arts
magazine The Funny Paper and co-authored (with artist Sherry
Campeau) a children’s storybook CLaroL Clickity
Clacks. She also co-wrote (with singer song writer Kathleen
Hughes) a children’s musical CLaroL’s
Clubhouse. A Career clown, most of CLaroL’s time is
spent making over 350 appearances a year.
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Press Release
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The tears are streaming down her face, and she is doubled over clutching her stomach. Her young daughter is jumping up and down, pointing squealing & screaming, audibly gasping for air, “Daddy! Daddy!” Is this the scene of an accident? No! It is the reaction of audience members as they laugh their way through a side-splitting show at (insert venue, date, and time) with CLaroL the CLown.
Using a simplistic approach to comedy CLaroL the CLown is amazingly able to engage the children, parents, grandparents, who attend her shows. For example she can take a simple non-functioning folding stool, and turn it into an uproarious rollick involving the stool, a man, and a sore finger. This escalates into an hysterical surprise ending you have to see to believe!
Energy and talent abound with this youthful clown lady. Whether she is on stage with children, jumping into the audience to find unsuspecting helpers, singing, dancing, juggling, plate spinning, you will have to sit back and hang on as CLaroL takes you on an riotous roller coaster like ride of a show.
It is this ride that keeps children and families coming back to see CLaroL. She has become a requested & repeat performer at festivals, fairs and events throughout Ontario.
CLaroL the CLown AKA Carol Crooks stepped into her big floppy shoes 18 years ago after touring as a mime in Central America. Upon returning the then, penniless student found work as a mime in the streets of her home town, Windsor, ON. After this, the calls just kept coming in. She was flooded with requests to perform at parties, festivals and corporate functions. But she didn’t stop there. She went on to create clown shows with the Windsor Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestras. With appearances at the Royal Hanneford Circus, Lake Compounce Theme Park, The Ontario Science Centre her career has ballooned into an average of 200+ appearances per year.
A CLaroL show IS family fun.
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Photo Gallery
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Schedule of Events
(For a detailed schedule of events and functions within
the Windsor and Essex County area
Click Here.)
- June 14 & 15, Welland Rose Festival, Welland, ON.
- June 19, Tecumseh Childcare, Ontario Early Years, Tecumseh ON.
- June 20, 1-3pm Academy St. Cecile, Windsor, ON.
- June 20, 5-8pm The Children’s House Montessori Graduation, Fogular Furlan Club, Windsor, ON.
- June 21, Private Engagements.
- June 22, Capitol Theatre, Opening Act for Robert Munch. 1pm & 3:30pm Shows Windsor, ON.
- June 23, Camp Workshop 1-4pm Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex. Leamington, ON.
- June 23, 6-9 pm CHYR Radio Customer Appreciation & Fireworks Celebration, St. Clair Centre for the Arts, Windsor, ON.
- June 25, 11-11:30am Montessori School of Windsor Picnic, Jackson Park, Windsor, ON.
- June 25, 1:30-2:30pm Gordon McGregor School Grade 1 Celebration, Windsor, ON.
- June 27, 9am-1pm The Children’s House Montessori Picnic, Ciocarro Club, Windsor, ON.
- June 28, 11am-3:30pm Summerfest, Riverfront Plaza, Windsor, ON.
- June 29, 12-4pm Summerfest, Riverfront Plaza, Windsor, ON.
- July 1, 2008 10am-2pm Canada Day Celebrations and Parade Summerfest, Riverfront Plaza, Windsor, ON.
- July 1, 2008 3:30pm-7:30pm Canada Day Celebrations Fort Malden Amherstburg, ON.
- July 6, 2008 9-11am Deerbrooke Marina Fishing Derby, Deerbrook, ON.
- July 11, 2008 5-8pm Devonshire Mall Fun Fridays Windsor, ON.
- July 12, 2008 2:15-2:45pm Bluesfest, Riverfront Plaza, Windsor, ON.
- July 13, 2008 6:30-9pm Essex Fun Fest, Fireworks Night, Essex, ON.
- July 19, 4pm Cirque D’Zastor, Windsor International Fringe Fest. Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave. Windsor, ON
Box Office 519-252-6579 1-800-387-9181 Adults $9 Children $5 www.windsorfringe.com
- July 22, 10am & 4pm Cirque D’Zastor, Windsor International Fringe Fest. Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave. Windsor, ON
Box Office 519-252-6579 1-800-387-9181 Adults $9 Children $5 www.windsorfringe.com
- July 23, 6pm Cirque D’Zastor, Windsor International Fringe Fest. Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave. Windsor, ON
Box Office 519-252-6579 1-800-387-9181 Adults $9 Children $5 www.windsorfringe.com
- July 25, 4pm Cirque D’Zastor, Windsor International Fringe Fest. Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave. Windsor, ON
Box Office 519-252-6579 1-800-387-9181 Adults $9 Children $5 www.windsorfringe.com
- July 26, 2pm Cirque D’Zastor, Windsor International Fringe Fest. Capitol Theatre 121 University Ave. Windsor, ON
Box Office 519-252-6579 1-800-387-9181 Adults $9 Children $5 www.windsorfringe.com
- July 28, 2:30pm Bridgeview Library, Windsor Public Library.
- July 29, 2:30pm Remington Park Library, Windsor Public Library.
- July 31, 2:30pm Forest Glade Library, Windsor Public Library.
- Aug. 2, 2008 10am-2:30pm @ Kincardine Old Boys and Old Girls Reunion,
Kincardine, ON.
- Aug. 21-24, 2008 various times @ Barrie Fair, Barrie, ON.
- Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2008 various times @ Paris Fair, Paris, ON.
- Sept. 26-28, 2008, various times @ Caledonia Fair, Caledonia, ON.
Check Local Listings for Show and appearance times.
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CLaroL
244 Villaire
Ave., Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N8S-2J2.
(519) 948-8634
(Eastern Standard Time)
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fun@claroltheclown.com
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