What is the first name of the Russian clown whose show won the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event?
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Slava's Snowshow Slava's Snowshow is a stage show created and staged by Russian performance artist Slava Polunin. The show won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.
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Slava Polunin Vyacheslav Ivanovich “Slava” Polunin PAR (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович (Слава) Полунин ) (born 12 June 1950) is a Russian performance artist and clown. He is the creator of the stage spectacles "Asisyai-revue", "Slava's Snowshow" and "Diabolo".
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Popovich Comedy Pet Theater The Popovich Comedy Pet Theater aka Pet Travel Show Inc. is a performance show combining animal and human performers. They perform comedy routines through a variety of skits that include clowns, acrobatics, juggling, and stunts under the direction of Gregory Popovich, the show’s creator.
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Victor Shenderovich Victor Anatolievich Shenderovich (Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Шендеро́вич ) (born August 15, 1958 in Moscow, Russia) is a popular Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host. In 1980, Shenderovich graduated from the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, specialising in "direction of volunteer theatrical groups". He is best known as a scriptwriter of popular political puppet show "Kukly" (Puppets) which was aired on NTV 1994 to 2002. He hosted satirical author program "Total" on NTV 1997 to 2001 and TV-6 in 2002. Later, Shenderovich ran a weekly program "Processed Cheese" on the Echo of Moscow radio station. The texts of this program's editions were later collected in his book "Better two heads than one. Duumvirate times chronicle", implying Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Nowadays Shenderovich is a columnist of "The New Times", a liberal Russian weekly.
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Valery Ryzhakov Valery Nikolayevich Ryzhakov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Рыжако́в ; 23 December 1945, Moscow - 31 December 2015, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984), winner of the USSR State Prize (1980).
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Canadian clowning The Canadian Clowning Technique is a mask-based style of performance created by Richard Pochinko.
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Raphael Cruz Raphael Cruz is an American acrobat, clown and actor. Cruz is perhaps best known for playing the lead role of Buster, a Buster Keaton inspired character, in the cinema themed Cirque du Soleil production "Iris".
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Nikolai Sorokin Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (Russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин ; February 15, 1952 – March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was artistic director of the Rostov-on-Don academic drama theatre of a name Maxim Gorky and a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation.
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Chaplin's Circus Chaplin's Circus is a touring U.K. circus, established in 2012 by Gary Stocker and Mark Foot. It is a narrative-driven performance which incorporates both pantomime with traditional circus skills and tells the story of a 1920s circus "on the brink of bankruptcy that is saved by an inventor who builds the world's first human cannon". Chaplin's Circus is an animal and clown-free circus.
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Alexander Vertinsky Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Верти́нский , 21 March 1889 in Kiev — 21 May 1957 in Leningrad, Polish: "Aleksander Wertyński" ) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing.
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Felix Adler (clown) Frank Bartlet Adler (better known by his stage name Felix Adler) (June 17, 1895 – February 1, 1960), born in Clinton, Iowa, was a circus performer and entertainer known as "The King of Clowns" who performed for Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey for 20 years. He was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Pyotr Karatygin Pyotr Andreyevich Karatygin (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Каратыгин , 11 July 1805, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, - 6 October 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian dramatist and actor. The tragic Vasily Karatygin (1802-1853) was his brother.
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Elementary School Musical (The Simpsons) "Elementary School Musical" is the twenty-second season premiere of the American animated television series "The Simpsons". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 26, 2010. In this episode, Krusty the Clown invites Homer to the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Later turning out to be a hoax, Krusty is sued by the International Court of Justice for his many instances of public indecency. Meanwhile, Marge takes Lisa to a performing arts camp for a week.
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Oleg Yefremov Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Ефре́мов , October 1, 1927, Moscow, Soviet Union – May 24, 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1987).
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Krusty the Clown Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, better known as Krusty the Clown (sometimes spelled as Krusty the Klown), is a cartoon character in the animated television series "The Simpsons". He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He is the long-time clown host of Bart and Lisa's favorite TV show, a combination of kiddie variety television hijinks and cartoons including "The Itchy & Scratchy Show". Krusty is often portrayed as a cynical, burnt-out, addiction-riddled smoker who is made miserable by show business but continues on anyway. He has become one of the most common characters outside of the main Simpson family and has been the focus of several episodes, most of which also spotlight Bart.
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Leonid Yengibarov Leonid Georgievich Yengibarov (Armenian: Լեոնիդ Ենգիբարյան ; Russian: Леонид Георгиевич Енгибаров ; March 15, 1935 – July 25, 1972) was a Soviet clown and actor.
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Oleg Borisov Oleg Ivanovich Borisov (Russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Бори́сов ; 8 November 1929 – 28 April 1994) was a well-known Russian film and theatre actor, whose honors included the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1978), two USSR State Prizes (1978, 1991) as well as the Volpi Cup (1990).
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Russian Theatre, Riga The Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre, colloquially referred to as the Russian Theatre, is a Russian-language theatre in Riga, Latvia.
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Billy Beck Billy Beck (born Frank Billerbeck; May 26, 1920 – June 29, 2011) was an American clown and character actor.
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George Foottit George Foottit (1864 – 1921) was an English clown who found fame on the Paris circus scene. He is famous for being part of the clown duo "Foottit and Chocolat".
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Oleg Tabakov Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков ) (born 17 August 1935) is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.
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Anatoly Shchukin Anatoly Mikhailovich Shchukin (Russian: Анатолий Михайлович Щукин ; 7 December 1916 – 29 May 1983) was a Soviet stage and voice actor. After graduating from a stage school of Boris Shchukin, between 1938 and 1941 he worked at the Vakhtangov Theatre. During World War II he performed with the Soviet Navy Theatre, and in 1946–1948 with the Mossovet Theatre. He spent the rest of his career at the Central Youth Theatre in Moscow, occasionally providing his voice for animations, such as the award-winning "Winnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit". In 1976 he was made an Honored Artist of Russia.