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A Tanguay Weekend

I’m jetting (actually bussing, ick) up to Ithaca to see two exciting Eva Tanguay programs at Cornell this weekend. The first, on Saturday, Cyclonic: The Dance and Life of Eva Tanguay is a multimedia piece involving dance, readings and film, devised by Mary Lorson, whose grandmother was Tanguay’s costume designer. The second, on Sunday, is a rare screening of Tanguay’s 1917 film The Wild Girl. If you’re in the Finger Lakes area, or are willing to make the trip, all the info is here. I’ll report back my findings on Monday!

To learn more about the roots of variety entertainment, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold.

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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.

3 comments

  1. Craig A. Pepin, is the distant cousin of Eva Tanguay, the “I Don’t Care Girl” of vaudeville! Pepin is a hero and a saint!

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