A Night Beneath the Tortona Big Top
Beneath the soaring canvas of The Tortona Big Top, guests gather for an evening of cocktails, dining, circus spectacle, comedy, live music, and beautiful chaos inspired by 1890s San Francisco.
Whether you're joining us for dinner or arriving for the main show, every ticket offers a different way to experience The Soiled Dove.
Marvel at circus spectacle, comedy, and theatrical delights
Be serenaded by live music throughout the evening
Savor a three-course dining experience beside the stage
Wander through galleries, curiosities, and hidden corners
Raise a libation at
The Soiled Dove Bar
Arrive beneath the Tortona Big Top on the Alameda waterfront
VIP DINNER PACKAGE
For guests who want the best seats in the house.
Experience The Soiled Dove from the most coveted seats beneath the Tortona Big Top.
VIP guests enjoy all the benefits of the Dinner & Main Show experience, elevated with exclusive amenities designed to make the evening even more memorable. Arrive early for priority entry, settle into premium front-row stage-side seating, and enjoy welcome cocktail service as the world of The Soiled Dove comes to life around you.
Throughout the evening, indulge in a multi-course dinner accompanied by the original music of Sgt. Splendor while aerialists, musicians, dancers, and eccentric characters transform the tent into a living Barbary Coast dream. As the night unfolds, you'll remain at the center of the action with unparalleled views of every moment of spectacle, comedy, music, and revelry.
VIP Runway Dinner & Main Show tickets include:
• Premium front-row stage-side seating
• Priority VIP entry
• Complimentary glass of champagne or wine awaiting you at your table
• Priority dining service throughout the evening
• Multi-course dinner experience
• Exclusive first-act performances experienced only by Dinner guests
• Full access to the 9:00 PM Main Show
• Limited-edition cast-signed Soiled Dove poster
• Post-show social hour with cast and guests
DINNER & MAIN SHOW EXPERIENCE
For those who want the complete Soiled Dove experience.
Arrive before the crowds and spend the evening immersed in the full world of The Soiled Dove.
Dinner guests are welcomed beneath the Tortona Big Top at 7:30 PM, with time to enjoy cocktails, explore the galleries, and settle into the atmosphere before the evening begins. As the first act unfolds around you, enjoy a multi-course dinner accompanied by the original music of Sgt. Splendor and surrounded by the performers, characters, and spectacle of The Soiled Dove.
While aerialists soar overhead and eccentric denizens of the Barbary Coast roam the saloon floor, your meal is served throughout an intimate first chapter of the evening experienced exclusively by Dinner guests.
At intermission, the world expands as Main Show patrons enter the tent and the celebration continues with another thrilling act of circus, comedy, live music, immersive theater, and beautiful mischief beneath the canvas.
Main Show Grandstand Seating
Enjoy a reserved seat for the Main Show beneath the magnificent Tortona Big Top.
Beginning at 9:00 PM, Grandstand guests join the world of The Soiled Dove for an unforgettable evening of circus, live music, comedy, immersive theater, and Barbary Coast revelry. From your reserved grandstand seat, take in the spectacle as aerialists soar overhead, musicians fill the tent with original music by Sgt. Splendor, and the colorful characters of The Soiled Dove and Vau de Vire Society bring Gold Rush-era San Francisco to life.
Main Show General Admission
Join the revelry beneath the Tortona Big Top.
General Admission guests enter at 9:00 PM and experience the excitement of The Soiled Dove from within the lively atmosphere of the saloon floor. Surrounded by music, laughter, spectacle, and the colorful denizens of the Barbary Coast, you'll enjoy an evening of circus arts, live music, comedy, immersive theater, and unforgettable entertainment from Vau de Vire Society.
General Admission is standing-room only and offers a flexible way to experience the Main Show while remaining close to the energy of the crowd.
INDULGE
Step foot into the whimsical Barbary Coast-flavored world we’ve created and you instantly become one of us, as much as part of the theatrics as those four aerialists floating overhead.
TIME-TRAVEL
Visit a bygone era nearly 150 years past, dripping with questionable behavior, loose morals, and all manner of other delectable goodies.
SWAY
Treat your ears to a Wonka’s worth of musical confectionery via The Soiled Dove Orchestra!
GANDER
Behold confounding circus performers, delicious dancers, salacious singers, voracious villains, hapless heroes, and masterful musicians, all of the highest caliber!
FEAST
Indulge in an extraordinarily tasty 3-course dinner brought to you by local culinary phenoms, Work of Art, and hand-delivered by the cast!
SWILL
Join in the carousing via a wide array of debaucherous adult beverages, nary an arm’s length away at our Soiled Dove Saloon!
The Soiled Dove Experience
From The Vau de Vire Society, co-creators of the world renowned Edwardian Ball, Revive the Show, Lagunitas Beer Circus, Phantasm Halloween, New Bohemia NYE and a decade and a half of The Bay Area’s most creatively outrageous nightlife events, comes an immersive, circus-infused, scandalous and historic dinner-theater experience that will titillate your every sense.
The Soiled Dove is a one-of-a-kind touring show that takes place under Vau de Vire’s massive 12,000 sq. ft. circus tent, The Big Top!
The Big Top at Radium Runway
Vau de Vire Entertainment, in collaboration with Radium Presents, is overly excited to announce:
THE BIG TOP at RADIUM RUNWAY.
an open-air arts hub that establishes the area as a cultural destination on the water’s edge of the San Francisco Bay’s Seaplane Lagoon
2163 Meeker Ave. #292
Richmond, CA 94804
info@thesoileddove.com
415-294-1591
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