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A New Show for the Year of the Rat!

Logo By Noah Diamond

Happy Chinese Year of the Rat!

Today seems an ideal time to announce the imminent emergence of a show I have been working on for years with composer David Malamud, The Twisted Tale of the Rat King! Our new comic opera has nothing to do with Chinese Culture, or the “Rat” zodiacal sign, but it HAS got to do with a monstrous rat-man, much in the mold of Universal Pictures’ monsters like the Wolf Man and the Mummy. And it is told in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan! Thanks to Opera on Tap we have presented sections of it in previous workshops. But we’ve done a new round of revisions and we’re looking to present a workshop of the entire show before the Year of the Rat is out, Hopefully, a full production will be forthcoming long before the next Year of the Rat!  Meantime, more info about the show can be found here, along with demoes of many of the songs. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I must pose for my publicity photo. Say, “Extra cheese!”

Also by Noah. Can Noah do rats, or what?

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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.