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Rose’s Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville ~ A new book from Vaudevisuals Press ~
Available now at: http://vaudevisualspress.shop
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I met Luca Lombardo online while researching my favorite topic ~ Quick Change!
Luca lives in Naples, Italy, and has been performing Quick Change for quite a few years now. He has written a book on the topic which I am listing here for your consideration. Translated from Italian with all the wonderful nuances found in that process.
This is the book for you!
Luca Lombardo is an Italian quick change performer who worked in Italy and around the world for almost 10 years.
This book is a great insight into the world of quick change art and Luca Lombardo will guide you into this mysterious and ancient world revealing and sharing his tricks and techniques with all performers, magicians, actors and art’s lovers out there. be able to accomplish a quick change act with two full costume changes helped by illustrations, graphic materials and external QR code links.
Available at Amazon as an ebook and also a hardcover.
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Central Park Variety Show producer/performer Ambrose Martos introduces the evening’s festivities.
MC for the evening was Muffy Styler.
Muffy Styler sang some great tunes with Aldo Perez on guitar.
Brian Klimowski performed a ‘chinese yoyo’ routine and a magic yoyo string restoration. Wonderful!
Tyler West performed two very wild physical comedy sketches.
Ambrose Martos followed with another wild ‘flasher’ routine!
Muffy sang another song and closed out the show.
Curtain call group shot ~ Lea McGowan with Dingo, Muffy Styler, Brian Klimowski, Ambrose Martos, Tyler West and Aldo Perez.
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SUITE/Space 2020
Where Are You? (Digital)
DEVISED, DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY
SIM YAN YING “YY”
DEVISED AND PERFORMED BY
Ao Lan Guo, Brendan Schwartz, Guillermo Contreras, John Titus, Maria Müller & Rosalie Neal
PERFORMANCES – LIVE STREAMING ON ZOOM
October 29, 8pm EDT
October 30, 10pm EDT
October 31, 10pm EDT
*Please note that the showtimes are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Runtime: 75 minutes, with talkback to follow* If you require live captioning for the show, please email whereareyou.theatre@gmail.com at least three days before the scheduled performance.
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A Marxian multimedia adventure through New York City, in the company of its funniest sons and writer and performer Noah Diamond (I’ll Say She Is, Marxfest, The Marx Brothers Council Podcast). With special guests, a lot of laughs, a few tears, and a few surprises. Presented by Freedonia Marxonia.
What great fun I had watching this wonderful story assembled with so much care by the amazingly talented Noah Diamond!
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Sammy’s Bowery Follies
In 1934, Sammy Fuchs opened a saloon at 267 Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Surrounded by flophouses and missions, Sammy’s Bowery Follies catered mainly to the homeless, the penniless, and the generally down and out.
That changed somewhat in the early ‘40s after a surprising customer passed through: a monocle-wearing gentleman who turned out to be a British lord tired of the fussy formality of the uptown clubs.
Sensing a new market, Sammy acquired a cabaret license, built a stage, hired some aging vaudevillians, and began advertising his bar as the “Stork Club of the Bowery,” a nod to the famed nightclub uptown.
The plan worked. Fancy folks, tourists and celebrities began seeking out Sammy’s, looking for a chance to loosen their ties and slum it a little bit in the Gay Nineties-themed dive. It was not uncommon to find a socialite in an opera gown wedged between a sailor on shore leave and a passed-out drunk.
Sammy recognized the importance of atmosphere, and served free food and drinks to some of his more colorful regulars (characters with names such as Prune Juice Jenny, Box Car Gussie and Tugboat Ethel, the “Queen of the Bowery”) to preserve the ambience.
The notable photographer Weegee made Sammy’s one of his regular shooting grounds and even held his book launch parties there.
By the end of World War II, Sammy’s was serving some 100,000 customers a year, as literal busloads of tourists were dropped off outside, eager to drink and sing along with hobos, dwarves and assorted misfits.
Sammy Fuchs died in 1969. A year later, the bar finally closed. The closing ceremony was attended by over 700 loyal patrons.
While I was there absorbing the atmosphere and drinks, a midget walked in… he was about three and a half feet. I invited him for a drink. He told me that he just arrived from Los Angeles, where he had been working for a Browns & Williams Tobacco Co’, walking the streets dressed as a penguin.
Click here for another great article about Sammy’s Bowery Follies on “The Chiseler”
Karen McCarty and I have known each other for quite sometime. When I heard that her grandmother was a ‘midget’ performer with Rose’s Royal Midgets I couldn’t believe my ears. I am publishing a book on this unique performing company and with this interview I had first hand information about a company that has been gone for years. A company of 25 midgets that performed World-wide for many years.
Trained as a young girl in dance and singing she was quite an asset to the company once she was employed by Ike Rose.
“Healthy Humor is a Not for Profit Performing Arts Organization whose performers create joy, wonder, and laughter for hospitalized children nationwide.”
For more information on Rose’s Royal Midgets!
Coming in November – Check out this site to preorder the book!
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Look Out Someone Else’s Window!
If you ever find yourself looking out your window and wondering what it would be like to look out SOMEONE ELSE’S window…well now you can!
This is the window I was looking out of today! Click on the photograph to experience your own NEW window viewing experience. From All over the World!
“We’re all still strangers, but we’re strangers who have granted one another access to our daily window view.”
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Confused about what to do today?
Try Juggling –
Wondering what you will do tomorrow?
Try Juggling –
Thom Wall is here to tell you what it is and HOW to do it!
JUGGLING – WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO DO IT! by Thom Wall
“I realized that there was no resource that taught contemporary juggling techniques,” Wall says.
“The books that were already available focused on “this old style of juggling performance or juggling training, where you just throw the throw, it does this and then it just works,” he says. “Whereas juggling pedagogy in the past 30 years has completely changed.”
~Have a go at it. You might just find that you enjoy juggling~
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