Reduced Cast?

Hi, forgive me as I am sure that this has been covered already but wasn't it announced in January that the cast was going to be reduced, with speculation that some of the carnival performers were going to be eliminated. This was my favorite part of the show, were there characters eliminated? Who? Is Anna Monoxide -the crazy wonderful piercing performer still in the cast? I'll be going again soon and I just want to brace myself for a reduction in cast.