But a $1.3 million bid by Big Top Works saved it, and the Big Apple Circus 2018 will post up at its longtime home in Damrosch Park on Lincoln Plaza starting Oct. 20 through Jan. 27, 2019.

While Payne says people buy candy and caramel apples all year round, the period around Thanksgiving and Halloween is her busiest. By the time Halloween is over, she'll have made at least 2,000 apples.

Spangler Candy Co., which has been making circus peanuts since 1941, offers them in the familiar banana flavor, but also sells them in vanilla, cherry and lemon.

BIG APPLE CIRCUS will be rolling out a new, elevated food and beverage program that will be worth leaving your seat for! The menu, curated by Chef Harrs Mayer-Selinger and his hospitality group ...

What joy. Big Apple Circus Through Jan. 1 at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, Manhattan; bigapplecircus.com. Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes. Alexis Soloski has written for The Times since 2006.