Surprisingly, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray were never in a scene together in Caddyshack. Luckily that wasn’t the case in Rodney’s first prime – TV special in 1987.
Tag: Comedy
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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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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THE MERRY UNBIRTHDAY
A Merry Unbirthday
Join Jim Turner & Ellie Covan for a mutual birthday Raising Cain wrap party, with surprise guest Deb Margolin, special edition Bingo, and the raffle stops here!
UPCOMING OTHER EVENTS ~ RAISING CAIN
Unprecedented
Sun, Oct 25 at 1, 2, & 3PM (EDT) | Live Outdoors
Take a walking tour with Peculiar Works Project through the Lower East Side streets & experience real live theater, music, dance & more!
Wayward, A Cooking Show
Mon, Oct 26 at 7:30PM (EDT) | Virtual Live
Doyens Richard Bach & Michael Howett shepherd a virtual Donor Dinner! Cook along with them or simply simmer in their brassy banter & scandalous stories!
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One of the funniest, if not the funniest comedic actor of all time being interviewed on network TV by Gene Shalit in 1980. So much fun watching him change accents and talk about his career.
He is best remembered for his role of inept French police Inspector ‘Jacques Clouseau’ in the “Pink Panther” series of films (1964 to 1982). The last of that series, “Trail of the Pink Panther” (1982) was made after his death, using film clips and unseen footage from his earlier “Pink Panther” movies. Born Richard Henry Sellers in Southsea, Hampshire, England, his parents worked in an acting company run by his grandmother. During World War II, he enlisted in the British Army, where he met future actors Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine. Following the war, he set up a review in London, which was a combination of music and impressions (he played the drums), which led to his doing impressions on BBC television’s “The Goon Show.” Moving rapidly into a series of British comedy films during the mid-1950s, he quickly caught widespread audience appeal, and each successful role led to more and better films. Following British comic tradition of doing multiple roles in the same play, he was adept at performing multiple roles in his movies, including his hilarious “The Mouse that Roared” (1959) (playing three different parts), the black comedy, “Dr. Strangelove” (1964), (playing an pragmatic RAF officer, a wimpy United States President and a weird German scientist), and “The Prisoner of Zenda” (1979) (playing the roles of Rudolf IV, Rudolf V, and Syd Frewin). In 1959, he won the British equivalent of an Oscar for his role of ‘Fred Kite’, a labor leader in “I’m All Right, Now,” (1959), and in 1979 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role of ‘Chance Gardiner’ in his film, “Being There” (1979). He was married four times, to Ann Howe (1951 to 1961), to actress Britt Ekland (1964 to 1968), to Miranda Quarry (1970 to 1974), and to actress Lynn Frederick (1977 to his death in 1980).
Britt Ekland and Peter Sellers. Married 1964 to 1968.
July 24, 1980: Pink Panther actor and former Goon Show star Peter Sellers.
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Host Keith Nelson introduces the acts of tonight’s show.
Magic man Torkova performs two different amazing feats. One with multiplying candles and the second producing two bowls of oranges.
Erin Stephens performs a very skilled juggling set in a beautiful studio setting.
Patrick Garner performs a ‘tribute’ to Senior Wences ‘one-handed’ ventriloquism act
Stephanie Monseu models the ‘Top Chatter’ banner awarded to Angleo Iodice.
Presenting a show has many costs. To help defray these please see the above methods for donating to this cause. Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is a ‘not-for-profit’ 501(c)3 organization.
Fernanda Sumano performed a high energy hula-hoop act that allowed us to follow her through the house she was performing into the street and then the roof!
Wilfredo sang a lovely song for the viewers which included the ever-present “I”.
Keith Nelson introduces the ‘Ask Hovey’ segment of the show.
Circus historian/performer/author Hovey Burgess talks about the Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus train wreck of 1918.
Justin Weber performs his amazingly wonderful Yoyo act with colored light projections.
Keith Nelson catches all six spoons and keeps all 6 plates spinning!
Alisa Mae performs a ‘satirical’ aerial act with rolls of toilet paper.
Host Keith introduces the last act. The Kalvan Family!
The Kalvan Family had all the right moves and everyone had great skills!
The online Virtual curtain call for all the performers from the show. (and tech crew!)
Come back next Monday for another great Bindlestiff Open Stage Quarantine Edition Variety Show!
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Bindlestiff Open Stage Quarantine Edition
Another great night of LIVE entertainment online!
Host Keith Nelson introduces the show and the lineup of talent.
Curtis Carlyle juggled tin cups and was charming and fun.
Nicole Taylor performed a wonderful and classy hula-hoop act.
Shreeyash Palshikar and Princess Zara performed a wonderful magic act together.
Parallel Exit‘s Joel Jeske and Danny Gardner performed a wonderful comedic verbal duo.
Hovey Burgess talked about the early circus amusement elephant and the Elephant Hotel.
Sabrina Chap played two instruments and sang a lovely ‘original’ circus song.
Rod Raven (Matthew Morgan) and Princess Wendy (Heidi Brucker-Morgan) perform a most unusual act.
Thom Wall juggles with the most unusual objects and does it with class!
Richard Maguire hand balances and eventually removes his pants while upside down.
Pio Carrada performs a beautiful aerial act with multicolored lighting.
The cast takes their online Curtain Call!
Please consider making a donation so the performers can get paid for their work in this show!
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What Covid-19 Means for MTS This Summer!
2020 marks the ten year anniversary of Movement Theater Studio’s world-renowned month-long Summer Physical Theater Institute. Hosted by CUNY Brooklyn College’s Theater Department on the grounds of their beautiful campus deep in the heart of Brooklyn the four-week intensive and such one-week workshops as Clown, Character Mask, The Ensemble Director and of course Norman Taylor’s transformative master classes have attracted almost 3,000 students from across the globe during this last decade. We are very proud of that! And despite the setbacks of this year’s Covid-19 pandemic, MTS remains committed to providing the highest level of physical acting training to its students – both new and returning.
To that end, we have both pushed back our 2020 summer offerings and shortened the length of the full-time intensive. We’re lucky enough to have the same world-class faculty and with a lengthened teaching day we will be able to cover almost as much as before. SO! Below you will see a start date of July 20th (which we believe best positions us to ensure we will be free of social distancing rules and limits on public assembly) and we’ve significantly cut prices in acknowledgment of the particular hardship brought upon the artistic community. Of course, the city may still not be open-for-business and we may not be able to run these courses. But we are planning on it – and signing up those who might NEED a place to get creative at that point more than ever! Lastly, I would like to thank all of the many who have trained with us this past decade – who have brought their talent, dedication, and fun into the room. These are punishing times for the creative soul but I believe that like the Phoenix from the ashes the curiosity of the artist will prevail and thrive – no matter what the foe. See below and…..
Richard Crawford, Director MTS
in association with
BROOKLYN COLLEGE
TWO-WEEK INTENSIVE
July 20th – July 31st, 9 am – 6 pm
The first comprehensive Lecoq based training program in New York. Focusing on the Actor as Creator, the 2020 Summer Physical Theater Intensive at MTS is based on key elements of the Lecoq pedagogy, including Le jeu, Clown, Neutral Mask and Lecoq’s 20 Movements in approaching the creation of original and physically told narratives. Faculty include Richard Crawford (Actor War Horse, Clown Director Cirque Du Soleil), Adrienne Kapstein (War Horse, Broadway), Yuval Boim (LISPA), and Virginia Scott (FizGig Studio).
ONE WEEK WORKSHOPS
RICHARD CRAWFORD
CHARACTER MASK
July 20th – 24th
A dynamic and playful weekend workshop exploring the fundamentals of mask play and the creation of mask theater; using full-faced Larval and Expressive masks with MTS founder/director Richard Crawford
CLOWN 1
July 27th – 31st
It’s your big chance to seek the source of your comic nature, connect to your playful spirit, and discover your clown! Virginia Scott – Discovering the Clown
RICHARD CRAWFORD
LECOQ 101
AUG 3rd – 7th
A dynamic and playful weekend workshop exploring the fundamentals of mask play and the creation of mask theater; using full-faced Larval and Expressive masks with MTS founder/director Richard Crawford
VIRGINIA SCOTT
CLOWN 2
AUG 3rd – 7th
Pre-requisite: Clown 1. Now let’s make some funny stuff to show the audience! The clowns develop material unique to them and each student walks away with 5 minutes of individual material!
NOTE: update on May 6th: if these summer classes can’t run because of extended gathering restrictions we will move everything online.
For additional information regarding the Summer Workshops Click Here!
ALSO – 6 dynamic online classes beginning May 18th.
Shadow Puppetry: Silhouettes in my Bedroom
Lecoq’s Twenty Movements: Adventures in (a tiny) Space
Click Here for Information
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The Slipper Room is a New York institution. A House of Variety!
The Slipper Room is facing serious financial difficulties.
I did a wonderful interview with producer James Habacker in 2016. I am posting it here for your viewing. In the meantime, I have put a link below the video to the GoFundMe campaign that is currently set up to help them make it back in one piece! Please Help!
The Slipper Room – No Place Like it!
In the meantime, you can watch some of the ‘exile’ shows here!
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Today at 4 pm the second edition of Virtual Vaudeville we be broadcast on Instagram. This is LIVE entertainment folks! At least for now! Today I interviewed the very charming ventriloquist Nigel Dunkley who is performing in the upcoming ‘Virtual Vaudeville’ show. You can see his performance at the following times: 4:35 6:35 and 8:35. The show starts at 4 pm on Instagram – @phonograhdjmac (due to a technical glitch I didn’t get to record the questions so I posted them in text for viewers!)
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