Casey Carle set a goal “to make people laugh and to make them go ‘wow!’ “He translated that desire into a career that has far exceeded his expectations.

Carle is considered one of the greatest “bubble artists” on the professional circuit today. During his shows, he creates a plethora of dazzling bubbles in various shapes and sizes, even “trapping an audience member inside a gigantic soap bubble.”

Humor and audience interaction are part of the charm.

Carle brings his skills to the Franklin Opera House on Saturday afternoon, November 10, with “BubbleMania!” His shows, combining art and comedy, are for all ages.

Carle says he realized while getting his theater degree in college that although he enjoyed working as an actor, director and stage manager, “What I really liked was being a character actor in plays for children,” he writes on his website. “The zanier the play, the more I liked it.” And since he was hooked on “zaniness,” a friend suggested he become a circus clown. By the late 1980s, he found himself working for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. “I tried juggling, magic, uni-cycling, but what I liked best was using bubbles to amaze and amuse”.

“My bubble act in the circus was the first of its kind and I was the first person in the history of the world to put people inside bubbles as part of a circus routine. When I left the circus and started doing my own show, so many people liked it that I knew it was going to be ‘my thing.’ But even then I had no idea just how big of a ‘thing’ it was going to be,” he says.

And how does he describe what he does for a living? “I’m a manipulator of spherical rainbows for human entertainment,” he said, laughing. “Every show is different,” as he alters it to suit the interests of his audiences. “It’s fresh, again and again. I never tire of it.”

Tickets for the show are $8 for younger kids, $10 for students and seniors, and $12 for adults, and can be purchased at the door, or in advance at www.FranklinOperaHouse.org.