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First Ever Rock & Roll Circus Benefit ~ Thursday 4/29

What an amazing LINEUP!

Tickets are on sale now for our 2021 Spring Virtual Gala on Thursday, April 29th at 7pm, ET! A Night of High-Voltage Entertainment Produced in Cooperation with @jessemalin, @theboweryelectric and @rollinglivestudios!
The gala will feature a line-up of East Village and Coney Island personalities performing songs, spoken word, burlesque, and sideshow feats.
Tickets are $20. Donations made during the broadcast go directly to Coney Island USA, your Non-Profit Arts Organization at the beach!
Get all of the details at our event page! Invite your friends and thanks for your support!

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Billy Barty on Spike Jones Show ~ NBC Jan. 1954

Talented Little People were quite a draw for audiences from the early 1920s through the 1950s. Billy Barty was no exception! His talent was musical and comedic. Here he is appearing on the Spike Jones show impersonating the extravagant musical media star Liberace. Along with Sir Frederic Gas (Earl Bennett) performing as Lee’s brother, George. Liberace and George, who played the violin, performed together when they started out. NBC ~ January 30th, 1954.

For more great stories about talented little people grab a copy of the new book from Vaudevisuals Press.

Text by Trav SD and Foreword by James Taylor. Illustrated with over 100 vintage postcards and personal photographs.

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The American Mime Theatre ~ Celebrating its 69th Wonderful year!

The American Mime Theatre will celebrate its 69th Year on April 7th, 2021. The Company and  School, in New York City, was founded by Pau J. Curtis in 1952. Mr. Curtis is the creator of the performing art form known as “American Mime”,  and his Medium and its services continues under the direction of Jean Barbour

Paul J. Curtis, Founder and Director of The American Mime Theatre

For more information about The American Mime Theatre.

Click here to see my previous post on The American Mime Theatre.

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Vaudevisuals interview with Joe Dieffenbacher ~ Clown/Teacher/Author

The wonders of the internet! I am always amazed at the simple things in life and how technology has enabled us to talk and record conversations and interviews with people all over the world. Today I was talking to and did a great interview with clown/teacher/author Joe Dieffenbacher who resides in Oxford, UK. His professional work as a clown spans over 3 decades and he has taught at some very prestigious schools as well. His new book “Clown ~ The Physical Comedian” is a great textbook for working on a clown show.

Available from Amazon, Bloomsbury, and Bookshop.org.

Here is one of Joe’s wonderful videos with his students performing.

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“Ask Hovey” ~ A talk about midgets featuring Rose’s Royal Midgets book.

On Monday night I watched the wonderful Bindlestiff Open Stage Quarantine edition and was pleased to see the “Ask Hovey” segment (featuring circus historian/teacher/performer Hovey Burgess) where he talked about ‘Midgets’ and mentioned the Vaudevisuals Press book “Rose’s Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville“. Here is the video excerpt from the show.

And if you want to read more about the book visit the great review from Circopedia‘s founder/director Dominique Jando here.

You can get Rose’s Royal book here!

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Red Bull Theater ~ The Women Hater ~ Directed by Everett Quinton

So now you have most of the information about this wonderful upcoming event. If you are ready to purchase tickets go HERE!

If you prefer to see more information click this sentence!

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“Rose’s Royal Midgets And Other Little People of Vaudeville” Video

Rose's Royal Midgets

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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Luca Lombardo ~ Confessions of a Quick Change Artist NOW!

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.

Are you asking yourself how quick change artists change so fast? 
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 ~ November 20th, 2020

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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Interview with Sim Yan Ying ~ “Where are You?” ~ Digital

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.

TICKETS

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