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Tomorrow: Two Great Ways to Celebrate Groucho’s Birthday

Almost as if I KNEW I would be cooped up in my house for a year, just about a year ago I stretched my legs a bit and traveled to San Francisco and environs and western New York and some other places and I’m real glad I did, whew, because I’d be even more antsy right now. I’ve been thinking about all the California folks I visited and what they’ve been going through now with the wildfires.

Now it’s on to another memory! Tomorrow (Friday, October 2) is Groucho Marx’s birthday, which means that it’s already been a year since I was at Marxonia Fredonia! As it happens we can celebrate Groucho’s birthday (and Fredonia Marxonia) wherever we are tomorrow, because TCM will be showing Marx Brothers movies ALL DAY. I’ll be live tweeting during the whole marathon, 6am-6pm. Please follow me on Twitter for the fun. Then at 7pm, friend Noah Diamond is going to do this year’s Fredonia Marxonia talk remotely, so we can all tune in! Check it out here: https://fredonia.libguides.com/marxonia

(And just a heads up — This Coming Sunday night TCM will be showing several Buster Keaton films — I’ll be live tweeting those as well). 

To learn more about vaudeville, please see No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, and for more on classic comedy please read Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube.  

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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.