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The Elephants of Travalanche

In the spirit of our recent post on The Lions of Travalanche, here is a handy grouping together of all the posts we have done on pachyderms, to be shared on World Elephant Day, or Elephant Appreciation Day, or any day you choose.

Of Jumbo, and His Sad Death

Barnum’s Plowing Elephants

Powers Dancing Elephants

Of Topsy, and Her Coney Island Execution

An Op-Ed From When Ringling Retired Their Circus Elephants

Inspired by Elephants:

Billy Rose’s Jumbo

On Several Elephant Shaped Buildings

On Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man

The movie The Elephant Man (1980)

Susi, The Elephant Skin Girl

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.