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Oct. 17 is GATSBY FEST in Great Neck

It’s the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald: the perfect time to let you know about a brand new event happening in Great Neck on October 17.

Friends with hot jazz bands, note the contact info above — they may still be booking! And there are vendor opportunities. Authors who write about topics related to the Jazz Age, Long Island, Broadway, and so forth, I’m looking at you! Perhaps, a few of you (us) could go in on a book table. Musicians/bands you could hawk your CDs. As you know, Great Neck was the HEART of the Jazz Age, so I’m hoping Destination Great Neck’s Gatsby Fest will be a success, and lasts for many more years. I’ll be there! Come hang out with me! If you come, I will show you Fitzgerald’s House where he wrote most of The Great Gatsby a century ago, and where the first ever stage adaptation premiered in its pre-Broadway tryout. Both are within walking distance of where Gatsby Fest is taking place.

On a related topic, totally separately, there is going to be a huge, multi-city Great Gatsby Party, February 11-12, 2022, with events un NYC, LA, Las Vegas and Miami. This one looks undeniably ambitious and exciting, although I will say I am somewhat measured in my enthusiasm given that we are still in the midst of a pandemic, and it is by no means certain that we’ll be out of it by mid-winter, given that some huge percentage of American fools refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated. So we shall see. But I thought you would like to know. Info is 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.