FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2007, file photo, Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment, gestures during an interview at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla. The companty which produces the Ringling ...

ELLENTON, Fla. — Feld Entertainment held a news conference Monday about the closing of the iconic Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Kenneth Feld, the chairman and CEO of Feld Entertainment ...

KENNETH FELD: People want entertainment, and they want affordable entertainment, and we can bring it to them. The one-hit wonders, you have as much effort and energy into something that is a one-shot.

The self-proclaimed "Greatest Show on Earth" is back. Only without the snarling and trumpeting beasts that made the 152-year-old American circus famous. Which begs a few existential cultural questions ...