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Coney Island Mermaid Parade Today!

Stepping off at 1pm today: the 36th annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade! Get all the info you need on the annual beach-side Bacchanalia here. And, by way of mental preparation, check out the Coney Island section of Travalanche, featuring nearly 100 posts about New York’s storied seaside amusement district. One post in particular you might like to check out concerns the Mermaid Parade’s predecessor, the Coney Island Mardi Gras Parade. What’s new is old again! (Or something). Have a great day at the beach!

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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.