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“Old School”, My New Series of Online Lectures Launches This Month

Hear ye, hear ye, announcing OLD SCHOOL, my new series of Zoom talks. Talks wiil be every 1st and 3rd Saturday throughout the summer. They will be free to my Patreon supporters and $5 per to the general public. More details (time of events, Paypal info etc) will follow. The topics will be:

June 20: Black Vaudeville (This talk will be free)

July 4: Born on the 4th of July:  George M. Cohan and family

July 18: How the French Invented Show Biz

August 1: The Clowns of Vaudeville

August 15: The Women of Vaudeville

Like I say, per-talk payment info will follow but meantime, here’s the Patreon campaign if you’d like to get a jump on it — it’s the cheaper way to go anyway! Hope to see you there! https://www.patreon.com/travsd

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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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