Stars of the AVT #91:Juliet Jeske

This post is one of a series profiling the hundreds of performers I’ve presented through my American Vaudeville Theatre in celebration of its 15th anniversary. Don’t miss the American Vaudeville Theatre’s 15th Anniversary ExTRAVaganza in the New York International Fringe Festival this August!

I first met Juliet Jeske when I interviewed her as “Princess Sunshine” for an Indie Theatre Now podcast, but I didn’t get to see one of her shows until a couple of years later. I reviewed her Wham Slam Bam Variety hour here. As the decadent children’s birthday performer Princess Sunshine, she rocks an awesome performance niche — she improvises new lyrics to familiar tunes based on audience suggestions, accompanying herself on the accordion. Her fearlessness and skill in tossing these off is fairly awe-inspiring. She produces and hosts her own variety shows all over town, and also gets booked as a solo performer, at such venues as Joe’s Pub, Comix, Le Poisson Rouge…all the way up to Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I’m mega-psyched to be showcasing her in the American Vaudeville Theatre’s 15th Anniversary ExTRAVaganza in the New York International Fringe Festival this August!

To learn more about vaudeville past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold.