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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April 27th was a great night to be home watching the Bindlestiff Open Stage Quarantine Edition Variety show. A wonderful lineup and so much talent on the screen. (Usually presented as a LIVE SHOW!)
Keith Nelson introduces the show and the evenings festivities.
Joe Barney performed a little ‘carny’ magic with 3 rubber frogs.
Olivia Porter performed a wonderful eccentric dance/mime performance piece with a beer bottle.
Catskill Kenny (Kenny Raskin) told a few corny jokes and then sang some wonderful songs with his ukulele. This song we could certainly enjoy now!
Dan Wasdahl performed several amazing stunts all at once. Juggling clubs, hula-hoop, spinning a ball on a mouth stick and Rolla-Bolla.
Host Keith Nelson introduced to the viewers an age-old stunt. The spinning top.
The Fleet Family 5 performed a straight jacket ‘mass-escape’ by the 3 boys. Put in the straight jackets and then into cardboard boxes and then taped shut! (they had flashlights!) They escaped quickly and with lots of ‘pizazz’.
Beth Beauary performed a beautiful aerial silk act.
Stephanie Monseu celestially invites the viewers to participate in an online survey.
Edge Szumowski performed a magical illuminated ‘chinese yoyo‘ act.
Adam Gertsakov performed the ‘The Barbie Oedipus”.
Keith attempts the Kendama-Blockhead stunt again! Maybe next week?
Gena Schvartsman Cristiani performed an amazing act with clubs, hats and balls.
Keith celebrated Ellia Bisker‘s birthday by playing ‘Happy Birthday’ on the nose flute.
And then (with the help of a confederate) gave Ellia a wonderful Bindlestiff tradition – Pie in the Face!
To make a donation (helps pay the performers who are currently our of work) please use the above modern methods of payment.
That’s all for now folks!
Tune in next Monday at 7:30 pm for another Bindlestiff Open Stage Quarantine Variety Show!
Thanks for viewing the show and for donating to the cause.
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Tomorrow at 4pm on Instagram – Virtual Vaudeville – 8 All-Star Acts – Non Stop Entertainment – 4pm to 10pm @phonographdjmac
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I met up with puppeteer/director/creator Theodora Skipitares whose new show “The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker” opened at LaMama ETC on Jan. 23rd, 2020. I also interview the composer LaFrae Sci and the Choreographer Edisa Weeks.
From the ‘press release: a multi-disciplinary spectacle with a marching band, dancers, 12-foot puppets, shadow puppetry and moving projection screens. The band is an award-winning group, the Soul Tigers, young men and women who attend Benjamin Banneker High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Also featured are the Banneker Dancers.
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Last Monday every month at The Slipper Room.
Corn Mo sings one of his tunes for the audience to start off the show.
Featuring the magic of Matthew Holtzclaw. Seen here doing a fire magic trick.
Stage presence is such an important part of the magical performance and Matthew has it.
Laurie Lee Anderson and Sarah Conrad danced up a storm on one of the numbers.
The evening had an edgy feel to it when “Stache Novak” showed up to perform his ‘male strip routine.”
Introduced as the ‘bathroom attendant‘ he quickly removed his pants for the audience’s delight.
And then Laurie Lee Anderson (the winner of Miss Coney Island USA 2020) started her amazing act.
Ridding herself of the dinosaur head she immediately titillated the audience. An audience pleaser for sure she got to her basics real soon. Rockin the house with her jump rope routine Laurie Lee Anderson was wonderful.
Entertaining the audience with her unique looks and style.
For more information about Corn Mo’s show and The Slipper Room
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The American Vaudeville Theatre
It was a pleasure to sit down with Trav SD and hear what he had to say about the upcoming American Vaudeville Theatre show at Under St. Marks.
Trav S.D.’s American Vaudeville Theatre (est. 1995) returns to its Lower East Side origins with a regular series of intimate, informal, seat-of-the-pants semi-improvised revues mixing elements ranging from the old Bowery saloons to Dada Cabaret, to radio comedy, featuring sketches, monologues and songs, plus wonderful line-ups of Trav’s favorite variety, music and comedy acts — usually wonderfully unique people of all sorts. This month we’ll have KOO KOO THE BIRD GIRL (all the way from Australia)
, whip-cracking tap dancer MAVEN PECK PECK, funny lady JENNIFER GLICK,
clown duo JEFF AND BUTTONS and more TBA!
Stay tune for new shows each month!
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Theatre at St. John’s in Association with Yorick Theater Company
presents
FIRST EVER REVIVAL OF
Charles Ludlam’s
Starring and Directed by
Vaudevisuals interviewed Ridiculous Theatrical Company member Everett Quinton. He discusses his revival of Charles Ludlam‘s ‘Critics Choice’ play “Galas” which is coming to Theater at St. John’s in Greenwich Village for a Limited Run.
June 13-28th, 2019.
(Originally produced in 1983 to rave reviews ‘One of the 10 Best Plays of the Year’. New York Times and Time Magazine)
The playing schedule for GALAS is as follows: Monday through Sunday evenings at 8pm, with official opening scheduled for Sunday, June 16th. There is an additional matinee performance on Sunday, June 16th at 3pm. There will be no performances on Tuesday, June 18th; Monday, June 24th; and Thursday, June 27th. Tickets are $25 and are available online HERE!
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Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and celebrating World Pride!
Clown Band is Becca Bernard, Alex Ortwein, and Julia Register. They will be performing on Sept 20th at the NY Clown Theater Festival. An evening of Clown Cabaret. Here Alex and Becca talk about their work and music.
For ticket and additional information go here!
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New York City always has remarkable places to ‘discover’. ‘The Secret Loft’ is one of those special places. Performances of poetry, music, circus arts and more can be found here. If you know where to go. It is a ‘secret’. Here is Co-Owner Alex Newhausen talking about the space.
