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Congrats, Bette Midler, on Your Kennedy Center Honors!

Bette, and also Joni Mitchell, Lorne Michaels, and Motown’s Berry Gordy

Tonight, I was flipping through channels and stopped just in time to see a fan of one of my books accept her Kennedy Center Award from the President. Congratulations, Bette Midler. I am kvelling from ear to ear! Bette of course plugged my book No Applause in People magazine a few years ago. I’ve blogged about her here, here, and also, here. I also have a post about fellow honoree Lorne Michaels which I wrote here — don’t know if he is a fan of of my books, but I’m quite sure some SNL staff have been, over the years! So congratulations to you and all the rest! More on the 2021 Kennedy Center honors and honorees 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.