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Catch Me and “The Host with the Most” Talking Vaudeville!

Delighted to announce that I’m the guest on this week’s The Host with the Most Toddcast with Todd Newton. Newton’s an amazing show biz veteran: he was the host of, and a contributor to, various shows on E! for over a decade, and won a daytime Emmy for his work hosting the game show Family Game Night. Bob Barker was one of his mentors! He’s done over 300 podcasts; recent ones have included interviews with Trump impersonator John di Domenico (whom, quite coincidentally I wrote about here), and SNL’s Gary Kroeger. Naturally, our conversation was about vaudeville, a topic which Todd proved wonderfully well-versed on. Hear the show here, ya hear?

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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.