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Today Only! Learn About Illustrated Songs and Their Audiences

As we mentioned the other day in our Herbert Rice post, this weekend the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum is hosting a couple of programs related to the use of illustrated songs, presented by Sean Sharp and Russell Merritt of The Great Nickelodeon Show, and silent film accompanist Frederick Hodges. Everybody Join in the Song: A History of the Illustrated Song is available throughout the day for viewing (the link comes down tomorrow). How Movies Coped When the Wrong People Went to See Them, or Who Sang Along With Those Illustrated Songs? will be be presented on Zoom live tonight at 8pm Eastern (5pm Pacific). Access them both 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.