BLOOMINGTON - In addition to tiger lady Vicenta Pages (see accompanying story), the cast of performers for Boom A Ring includes:

Bobby & Valio

• Job description: Perch act

• Job requirement: Bobby's ability to balance wife Valio and assorted apparatuses on his forehead; Valio's ability not to fall off

Diana Vedyashinka

• Job description: Dachshund act

• Job requirement: Ability to not be upstaged by a quintet of natural-born ring-stealers

Justin Case

• Job description: Specialty eccentric personality

• Job requirement: Cycling through hoops of fire with utmost eccentricity

Los Scolas

• Job description: High wire act/double wheel

• Job requirement: Ability to perform death-defying tricks on the hire wire atop bicycles, as well as inside spinning double wheels of steel

Martti & Liina

• Job description: Crossbow/cloud swing

• Job requirement: Ability to deal with your spouse firing an arrow at you - or at least at the apple on top of your head

Negrey Troupe

• Job description: Tumbling/acrobatics

• Job requirement: Ability to perform cartwheels, handsprings, back flips, etc., on, over and under your six fellow performers

Vas & Stas

• Job description: Comedy juggling

• Job requirement: Ability to toss and catch anything and everything