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A Century of Burns and Allen: A Valentine’s Day Podcast

As we promised here back on George Burns’ birthday, the multi-talented Burns and Allen maven Lauren Milberger and myself have recorded a special podcast conversation in celebration of the full century that has elapsed since the formation of that beloved comedy team.

We timed the show’s release for today (Valentine’s Day) in honor of Burns and Allen’s great love affair. Lauren and I spoke by phone on National Spouse’s Day (I like to do things on significant days, in case you haven’t noticed). And Lauren was generous enough to record, edit and host the show on her Podbean page. While you’re there, give a listen her great radio play about Burns and Allen. The Raconteurs. Many thanks to her!

I am very well pleased with how the show came out. I hope you’ll give it a listen. It’s the Valentiney Thing To Do.

More background on this Burns and Allen Centennial 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.