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Cirkus Amok: Moo

A little photo record of yesterday’s performance of Circus Amok’s show Moo yesterday in Tompkins Square Park, the last performance of their summer 2012 citywide tour. It was the largest crowd I’ve ever seen at one of their shows. I’m no good at estimating such things but it looked as though there could have been 1,000 people there, thanks to the brilliance of Jennifer Miller’s ballyhoo, and Jenny Romaine’s marching band drumming up the crowds.

Jennifer Miller, Woman with a Beard, Mistress of Ceremonies. The eye shadow coupled with chin hair fills me with no end of mixed emotions!

She’s balancing a ladder on her chin. It beats climbing up one to do some work!
The Fratelli Bros., Dialect Comedy and Juggling

After this, I had to split for rehearsal. I also took some video of the marching band, which I’ll post tomorrow.

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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.

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