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A Plug for Music Hall and Variety Day (and the Herring Barrel Revue)

We’ve marked Music Hall and Variety Day here in the past because we think it is a marvelous idea. Today, I hope you will forgive me if I hijack the occasion for my own nefarious variety purposes. I have just come from rehearsing for Marxfest’s Herring Barrel Revue, and want to give it a big plug!

It’s a stand-alone Marx Brothers themed variety show open to Marxfest attendees and the general public event alike, full of music, comedy and surprises featuring meself, Noah Diamond, Jonny Porkpie, Seth Shelden, Glen Heroy, Kathy Biehl (all from our 2014 production of I’ll Say She Is), the amazing musical wizard Josh Max, “the world’s only Yiddish draq queen” Mitzi Manna, the piano stylings of Tracy Stark, and more. It’s all happening this Saturday, May 18, 9:30pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre of the West Bank Cafe, 407 West 42nd Street, right off Times Square!

The foolery will be falling fast and furious that night, I assure you, as this particular bunch will be looking to celebrate the Marxes in a big way, for we are at the one century mark from the premiere of I’ll Say She Is, the Marx Brothers’ first Broadway show. Come stow away with us!

Tickets are available here.

Published by travsd

Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.