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The Marx Brothers Council Podcast (and I) Look at Chico Marx

I was honored to be the guest of Matthew Coniam, Noah Diamond and Bob Gassell on the Marx Brothers Council podcast over the weekend. Honored and intimidated — these guys know their beans, whereas I’m merely full of ’em. But it was a mighty pleasurable experience trading notions and insights with these professors of the Other Marxism. The subject of our symposium? Why, none other than Chico, normally a distant third (actually a nonstarter) in any intellectual discussion of the Marx Brothers. But as Chico himself would advise, if you wanna win big at the track, put-a your money on a dark horse. Thanks Marx Brothers Council! for helping make it possible: https://www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/2019/04/episode-14-look-at-chicolini.html

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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.