[Buckeye McFrog]

who wants to sit in a hot tent sweating various parts of your anatomy off to watch performing animals in the height of the summer?

Ringling hasn't played tents since the 1950's. All recent shows, like the last one Sunday, were in air conditioned hockey arenas.

[Spktyr]

See my post and link above. They returned to tents on a limited basis in 2009.

Also - their advertising did nothing to dispel the image of having to go sit in a hot tent to watch the circus. Nobody wants to do that in Texas (or the rest of the South) for about half the year.