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The Last Vaudevillian

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Our pal Cyndy Fujikawa’s play The Last Vaudevillian opens in previews in L.A. tonight. Cyndy guest blogged about her remarkable show business family in a six part series that starts here.  I really belong there tonight and I’m bummed I can’t be. I only hope it’s a big success and comes to New York! West coast readers, here are the details:

Pacific Resident Theatre Co-op presents a workshop production of The Last Vaudevillian, a play by Cyndy Fujikawa.
Directed by Julia Fletcher. Produced by Sarah Zinsser. Cast: Robin Becker, Karen Benjamin Chapman Peggy Maltby Etra Brendan Farrell,Darren Kelley Matt McKenzie Wesley Mann Nell Murphy, Michael PrichardTro Shaw Sally Smythe, and Sarah Zinsser.

Pieviews: June 5-6; Opens June 11. Performances through June 21. Thursday-Satturday at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm.

Pacific Resident THeatre Company is at 705 1/2 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA. More details and tickets are here. 

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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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