The Flying Karamazov Brothers

They learned their trade busking as street artists starting in Santa Cruz, California, eventually going on to perform nationally and internationally, including on Broadway stages.

The current troupe is led by co-founder Paul David Magid (Dmitri), who is its director and producer and sole remaining original member.

Their modern farcical take on the play incorporated juggling, acrobatics, faux knife-throwing, gospel, jazz, and a cross-dressing brothel madam.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the troupe stopped using the word "Terror" in the bit and replaced it with "Danger", although as of their 2008–2009 4Play tour, they had restored its original name.

[8] They also perform a trick called "The Gamble" in which the "Champ" (portrayed traditionally by Ivan Karamazov, but more recently by Dmitri) will juggle any three items provided by the audience.

If the Champ can juggle the items for an unbroken pattern of ten throws, he wins a standing ovation from the audience; if he fails in three tries, he receives a pie in the face.

Magid debuted an updated version of the Flying Karamazov Brothers' "Club Sandwich," performing with Jules McEvoy, Chen Pollina, and Tomoki Sage, who are members of the juggling and acrobatic troupe Nanda.

After an initial short run in Port Townsend, Washington, the revised show later played at Seattle's Broadway Performance Hall from September 19 to October 6, 2019, garnering favorable reviews.

The Karamazovs incorporate music into their performances through special clubs adapted as percussion strikers, allowing them to play drums and marimbaphones without breaking their juggling patterns.

Clubs, gloves, and other props and wardrobe can include accelerometers, gravitometers, speed and position radar, and radio transceivers that allow the equipment devices to communicate with each other as well as a backstage computer.

The Karamazovs exploit this technology in continually evolving ways, ranging from music and lighting that change in response to throws and catches, to games in which the jugglers must constantly adapt their throws, patterns, and passes in response to cues that the computer chooses on the fly, often based on the computer identifying a juggler who's out of position and therefore unlikely to be prepared for a toss.