Cirque Italia, a group trumpeting itself as "the first-ever Italian water circus" to travel the United States, will set up its blue-and-white big top near Battlefield Mall later this month for a three-day Springfield run — its first appearance in Missouri ever.
In the space between Nakato's and Meador Park, you'll find mermaids, aerialists, acrobats, contortionists, all performing amid fountains on a stage that can raise 35 feet in the air.
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