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Fall 2019 Tour Wrap-Up Part One

I’ve been living out of a trunk the past couple of weeks, just like the vaudevillians of old, and I’ve been keeping a log! If you’re interested in these rambles, just follow the links below. I don’t claim to be interesting, but these places sure were!

San Francisco Part One (including my talk at the JCCSF and a trip to Playland/ Sutro Baths)

Pacific Coast Highway and San Simeon

Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo

Niles

The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum

The Harry Langdon Film Festival

San Francisco Part Two (including sites too numerous to name)

The National Comedy Center and More

Fredonia Marxonia

For part two of the junket go 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.