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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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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Vaudevisuals interview with Kate Owens and her director Lucy Shelby. Talking about the new show “Kate and Ilyssa Present: The Best Ritual”.
For more information/tickets go here!
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Wonderful interview with magic man Greg Dubin talking about his upcoming show.
For more information/tickets CLICK THIS!
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WINNER OF THE CONEY ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL
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11/13/53 – 12/17/17 R.I.P.
A Master Sword Swallower/Magician/Street Performer/Busker/Person
The Slipper Room was set up with a lovely projection of Johnny Fox and one lit candle.
Slipper Room’s James Habacker set the mood for the evening with a story of his first meeting with Johnny Fox.
Thomas M. Cote
Joe Coleman
Lady Aye
Tomas Kubinek
Jelly Boy the Clown
Toby Logue
Adam Cardone
Terre Roche, formerly of the band The Roches.
Thanks to Norman Blake for supplying these wonderful photographs
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~And here is the video excerpt from that night’s speakers~
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And here are some videos of Johnny Fox!
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE FRREAKATORIUM
Disclaimer: If anyone present at this event is not mentioned here I apologize as I didn’t know everyone!
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Cardone came over yesterday to tell me about the upcoming Tribute he is planning and producing with Slipper Room’s James Habacker.
A Tribute to our friend Johnny Fox
John Robert Fox (November 13, 1953 – December 17, 2017)
Thursday, Feb. 1st 7:00 pm @The Slipper Room
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John Robert Fox (November 13, 1953 – December 17, 2017)
Click here for more information on this great event!
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Interview with Johnny Fox posted on Radio Vaudeville (from Busker Hall of Fame)
Johnny Fox performing the ‘tongue skewer’.
Johnny Fox at his ‘Freakatorium’ located in the Lower East Side. Open from 1999 to 2005.
From Wikipedia:
In June 1999, Fox opened the Freakatorium, El Museo Loco, a museum of sideshow curiosities, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the face of low numbers of visitors and rising rent, the museum was closed in January 2005. Fox was partly inspired to open the museum by his childhood visits to Hubert’s Museum and Flea Circus in Times Square. His collection of oddities includes narwhal tusks, an elephant’s-foot liquor chest, a two-headed turtle, a vest owned by General Tom Thumb, and the glass eye of Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Hope to see you all at The Slipper Room on Thursday to Celebrate Johnny Fox!
Outré Island is Chris Rozzi’s ongoing comedy saga of a lost civilization and its many unusual citizens. This is the island as you’ve never seen it before, including all sorts of treats, guests, and surprises. Featuring Anna Copa Cabana and Matt Roper.
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Oh, by the way, these two wonderful folks will be joining Chris that evening!
For more information/tickets go here!
Check out Blond Thunder Presents Interview with Chris Rozzi on Radio Vaudeville – June 1st!
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THE THEREMIN
Invented 1919 by Russian electro-physicist Lev Sergejewitch Termen, the Theremin is the only instrument that generates sound without being touched. Notoriously hard to play, it is one of the first electronic instruments that inspired the creation of synthesizers in future generations. Historically, the theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments, introduced to audiences at the beginning of the 20th century. Subsequently, it served as the basis from which electronic musical instruments of the 20th century were later developed. Although originally intended for classical music performance, the theremin instead found its success supplying ‘eerie’ background music for countless motion pictures. Whether that it is due to its unusual frequency and vibrato effects, or the challenge posed upon the player to master its technique, the theremin has never been a widely played instrument.
Today, among fields of electronic musicians, much more are rediscovering the potential of the theremin and exploring its complex and expressive sounds, pitches, movements, and gestures through various styles and media. In 1966 the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson put the Theremin to work in “Good Vibrations.” In 1967 Theremins showed up on Captain Beefheart‘s landmark “Safe as Milk” and in 1969, Led Zeppelin anthem “Whole Lotta Love” featured a Theremin. Today artists such as Jon Spencer, Portishead, Nine Inch Nails, Elvis Costello, Trey Anastasio, and Simon & Garfunkel have put the instrument to use.
Leon Theremin emigrated to New York City in late 1927, quickly establishing a laboratory dedicated to the scientific study of electronic sound; in April of 1930, a Ten Piece Theremin Orchestra premiered on the stage of Carnegie Hall to enthusiastic response. A decade later, Theremin was whisked back to the Soviet Union (involuntarily, some have said) and placed in Butyrka prison, eventually working in a Soviet think-tank to develop a covert listening device for the Soviet government. Following Theremin’s abrupt departure and reassignment, his instrument inspired a handful of virtuosos, most notably Clara Rockmore and Samuel J. Hoffman, but ultimately fell into obscurity until…
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For more information/tickets click on this link!
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