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The Chimps of Travalanche

July 14 has been designated as World Chimpanzee Day, apparently in honor of Gerald Ford’s birthday? At any rate it seemed a suitable occasion on which to connect you with all of the chimp related posts we have done on Travalanche to date. Click below to learn about…

Consul the Great, Vaudeville’s Biggest Ape Star

Snooky the Humanzee

Cheeta from Tarzan

The Bonzo Movies

J. Fred Muggs of The Today Show

Me and the Chimp with Ted Bessell

Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp

Solemn reminders all that a tricycle…isn’t the only chimp vehicle.

For more on show business history, please see No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous.

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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.