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Trav S D

TRAV S D

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Trav S.D. is best known for his book about the history of vaudeville: No Applause, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Faber & Faber, 2005). He began his professional theatrical life as a teenager, performing as a stand-up comedian in Rhode Island . Trained at the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence , he began directing, producing and acting in his own plays in the late 1980s. In New York , his plays and performance pieces have been performed at Joe's Pub, LaMama, Theatre for the New City , the Ohio Theater, HERE, Chashama, Dixon Place , the Brick Theatre, Surf Reality, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. Regionally, his work has been produced in Austin , Minneapolis , Portland , Providence and Philadelphia . As a free-lance journalist and critic, he has written for such publications as American Theatre, the Village Voice, Time Out NY , the NY Sun, Reason and nyTheatre.com (where he has a monthly podcast). Since 1996, he has presented hundreds of variety acts through his American Vaudeville and Burlesque Theater.

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         American Vaudeville theatre 15th Anniversary ExTRAVagANZa         Beach Blanket Bluebeard         Big Donut, The         Burlesque-A-Pades         Caveman Robot Radio Adventure Show         Cold Fire         Columbia, The Germ Of the Ocean         Confidence Man, The         Curse Of the Neckrophreniac, The         Custer Wore an Arrow Shirt         Der Boogermeister         Dorothy Building, The         Exploitation Of Joice Heth, The         Ezekiel's Wheelchair         Family Of Man         Father's Name Was Daddy         Fickle Mistress, The         Gas Attack         Hecate And Beckett, The Two Existential Magpies, In Dead Dog, Dead God, Dead Ducks         Horseplay or The Fickle Mistress. A Protean Picaresque         House Of Trash         Inside Out         Irish MeloDrama, The         Jasper Jaxon         Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One         Lactation         Merrymount         Misshapen Jack, The Nebraska Hunchback         Nihils, Or the Performance Artist         No Applause, Just Throw Money         No Second Acts: A Collection of Short American Lives         Parkhurst's Descent         Poison Shirt/ Boots Of the Transexual         Sea Of Love         Strange Case of Grippo the Ape Man, The         Tent Show Tetragrammaton         Travesties of 2012         Universal Rundle         White Trash         Willy Nilly

American Vaudeville theatre 15th Anniversary ExTRAVagANZa

Synopsis:
Long time downtown impresario and author Trav S.D. hosts the 15th anniversary edition of his popular vaudeville show, mixing the hottest contemporary variety acts with his own Topsy-Turvy songs and comedy sketches, wrapped in a distinctly pre-21st century package.

Notes:
Choreographer: Becky Byers. travsd.wordpress.com

1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival    Aug 2011

Organisations:
Trav S.D./ Mountebanks

1st Published:
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Genre:
2h 0m Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Beach Blanket Bluebeard

Synopsis:
When Johnny Guitar shows up to play his way-out music at the local surf-beach, all the kids go wild and some of them wind up DEAD.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2008

Organisations:
Adhesive Theatre Company/Mountebanks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical comedy/black comedy

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  10            Other:  -

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Big Donut, The

Synopsis:
On a frigid New England night, an act of kindness bears strange and hilarious fruit
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of A Cavalcade of Curiosities bringing you zombies, yuppies And nuns, donuts, guns And drinking. In other words, All the elements of A very Dysfunctional good time.

1st Produced:
the Red Room
85 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10003    14 Mar 2011

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Burlesque-A-Pades

Synopsis:
An evening of thrilling live performances fused with theatrical storytelling like no other show in New York, at Burlesque-A-Pades experience a real authentic burlesque show as big time audiences knew it back in the day, in an intoxicating cocktail that alternates heart-stopping striptease with an eclectic mix of variety and comedy. From the Coney Island Boardwalk to the Wild West Circuit to the Las Vegas Strip to old-world Europe, Burlesque-A-Pades will transport audiences all over the globe on a trip through burlesque past, present and future.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Angie Pontani and Trav S.D.

1st Produced:
SoHo Playhouse
15 Vandam Street, New York, NY 10013    12 Oct 2012

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Genre:
show

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Caveman Robot Radio Adventure Show

Synopsis:
old time radio show featuring the cult comics character Caveman Robot (http://www.cavemanrobot.com) , featuring the actual 7 foot tall Caveman Robot, Trav S.D., Robert Pinnock, Pete Macnamara, Richard Harrington, Moira Stone, and Chris Harcum, and more. Live music and sound effects by Lumberob, songs by Uke Jackson, and hand drawn/collage video images of the adventure by Jason Robert Bell, all combine for an experience calculated to make you yell "Oolar!"

Notes:
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1st Produced:
92nd Street Y's new Tribeca Makor performance space, NY    2009

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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Cold Fire

Synopsis:
A paranormal investigator looks into a mysterious rash of spontaneous combustions and -- surprisingly-solves them

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song

1st Produced:
Performance Zone at Ubu Rep    1996

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/radio play Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Columbia, The Germ Of the Ocean

Synopsis:
A ridiculous-style history, in which, Columbus, a very ugly woman, discovers America, only to have it snatched away by a scheming, evil priest

Notes:
Approx. two hours

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  1 may be played in drag

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Confidence Man, The

Synopsis:
An adaptation of the Herman Melville novel about a series of mysterious con men on a riverboat.

Notes:
2 hrs

1st Produced:
Coney Island USA    2007

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
literary adaptation Comedy

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Curse Of the Neckrophreniac, The

Synopsis:
A poet recounts his opium-fueled attempt to surgically Exchange The necks of his wife and sister

Notes:
Approx. 30 minutes

1st Produced:
St. Mark's theater    2001

Organisations:
Mountebanks/ DMtheatrics

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Custer Wore an Arrow Shirt

Synopsis:
A remote US cavalry outpost in the Southwest desert is threatened by enemies without. . .and enemies within.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2008

Organisations:
International Culture Lab/Mountebanks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Experimental/comedy 30 min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Der Boogermeister

Synopsis:
An executioner who tortures citizens with nasal fluid is given his come-uppance by a vengeful spirit of the dead.

Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes

1st Produced:
St. Mark's theater    2001

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dorothy Building, The

Synopsis:
A birth and a death in a mysterious compound inhabited by identical masked women named Dorothy

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
experimental, 40 min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  4 m/f

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Exploitation Of Joice Heth, The

Synopsis:
P.T. Barnum presents Joice Heth, who, to his surprise, turns out not only to have been the actual nurse of George Washington, but his mentor and political advisor as well.

Notes:
Approx. ten minutes

1st Produced:
Metropolitan Playhouse    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Ezekiel's Wheelchair

Synopsis:
the daughter and mother of the world's greatest physicist confront him about his greatest blunder-the draining of all color from the world.

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes

1st Produced:
Village Gate    1993

Organisations:
New Facktory for Excentrick Actors

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  may be played in drag

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Family Of Man

Synopsis:
An aging pop singer cracks up when the mistakes of his youth catch up with.

Notes:
Part of the New City , New Blood reading series. Approx 120 min

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theater for the New City

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/Drama with music

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Father's Name Was Daddy

Synopsis:
Abbie Hoffman squares off with the biggest pig of all -- his old man

Notes:
part of East Village Chronicles, Volume 3

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fickle Mistress, The

Synopsis:
the life of Adah Isaacs Menken a very big theatre star in the New York of the 1860s because she appeared on stage riding a horse bareback only wearing tights. She was much married - always accused of marrying for money.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
ART/NY Studios, New York    16 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Theatre Askew

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gas Attack

Synopsis:
A government space ship accidentally brings deadly gas creatures back to Earth.

Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes

1st Produced:
Two Bits, at Bowerie Lane theater    1991

Organisations:
New Facktory for Excentrick Actors

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hecate And Beckett, The Two Existential Magpies, In Dead Dog, Dead God, Dead Ducks

Synopsis:
A pair of cartoon magpies are adrift on a piece of an exploded ocean liner

Notes:
Approx. 30 minutes

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 (may be played by males or females)

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Horseplay or The Fickle Mistress. A Protean Picaresque

Synopsis:
about 19th century personality Adah Isaacs Menken, a shape-shifting genius who inhabited a bewildering array of identities during her short life -- most of which were probably true! White, black, Jewish, Catholic, French, Spanish, English, Irish, actress, poet, equestrienne, cross-dresser, housewife and same-sex lover. And above all the First International Super-Star..all wrapped up in one vivacious, compelling package and played by Molly Pope.

Notes:
Original music and musical direction by William TN Hall

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theatre Askew

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Ridiculous style bio-play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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House Of Trash

House Of Trash
A garbageman/ Baptist preacher undertakes plots to straighten out the lives of his family members, doing more harm than good

Notes:
Approx two hours

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Inside Out

Synopsis:
A mad scientist transforms a young student reporter into a stomach monster

Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes

1st Produced:
St. Mark's theater    2001

Organisations:
Mountebanks/ DMtheatrics

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Irish MeloDrama, The

Synopsis:
A 90-pund weakling carries out his dying father's wish to protect his sister from bad boyfriends.

Notes:
Approx: ten minutes

1st Produced:
Metropolitan Playhouse    2005

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jasper Jaxon

Synopsis:
A ne'er-do-well outlaw finds posthumous fame as a sideshow mummy

Notes:
Andhow! theater Company presents its 7th Annual play reading series, Dialogue '07

1st Produced:
the Great Room, ART/NY South Oxford Street Space, NY (play reading)    2007

Organisations:
Andhow! Theater Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One

Synopsis:
20 years ago this November 9, the Berlin Wall was opened, admitting a flood of East Germans into the previously verboten West. To mark the occasion Trav S.D. and his company Mountebanks present Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One, a Brecht-flavored retelling of the Comedy of Errors that brings Western-style excess to Shakespeare's comedy by doubling the number of pairs of twins in the plot to four. Separated at birth with the Allied Invasion of Berlin in 1945, half are raised in the Communist sector only to be unwittingly reunited with their brothers 44 years later when the Wall comes down. the result is mass confusion!
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Lactation

Synopsis:
An insufferable abstract expressionist contends with quotidian interruptions by his mother and the milk man

Notes:
Approx. 20 minutes

1st Produced:
Surf Reality    1999

Organisations:
Surf Reality

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Merrymount

Synopsis:
Adaptation of a Hawthorne story about a 17 century Massachusetts governor who cracks down on the merrymaking in a nearby village

Notes:
Part of the Hawthornicopia Festival 15 minutes

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  extras

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Misshapen Jack, The Nebraska Hunchback

Synopsis:
An insane lecturer instructs us about the evils of Nebraskan hunchbacks named Jack-unintentionally revealing a bit about his own psychology along the way.

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs

1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nihils, Or the Performance Artist

Synopsis:
A vain and awful performance artist contends with the sharp wit and critical mind of his stage manager.

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs

1st Produced:
Bullet Space    1997

Organisations:
Mountebanks

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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No Applause, Just Throw Money

Synopsis:
Based on Trav S.D.'s popular book No Applause, Just Throw Money: the Book That Made Vaudeville Famous (Faber & Faber, 2005), No Applause. . .the Show is an original variety revue with sketches and songs by Trav S.D
- press release

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Genre:
Show

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  9 actors

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No Second Acts: A Collection of Short American Lives

Synopsis:
F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives, and the Brick sets out to prove him right with this collection of one-act plays. Taking on themes of U.S. history, politics and culture, these little nuggets of Americana take full advantage of our constitutional right to free speech in their wild, varied and often uncouth takes on our national experience.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of A collection of short plays written by Gyda Arber, James Comtois, Jeff Lewonczyk, Justin Maxwell, August Schulenburg, Trav S.D., Crystal Skillman, Alexis Sottile, Stephanie Swirsky, Art Wallace

1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    01 Jun 2012

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Genre:
short play

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Parkhurst's Descent

Synopsis:
In 19th century New York, a fire and brimstone preacher hires a private detective to show him the city's seemy underbelly -- and finds more than he bargained for.

Notes:
part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth Annual installment of East Village Chronicles, An ongoing series of original one-act plays About/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's East Village/Alphabet City

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Genre:
20 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Poison Shirt/ Boots Of the Transexual

Synopsis:
An angry trannie turns the tables on her two-timing old man by freaking him out on acid.

Notes:
Approx. 15 minutes

1st Produced:
the Real theater    1995

Organisations:
New Facktory for Excentrick Actors

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  may be drag part

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Sea Of Love

Synopsis:
A "type A" is successively accosted by a nymphomaniac so-worker, his lesbian mother, the ghost of his dead sea captain father, and the God Poesidon.

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song

1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner Theatre, NYC    1989

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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  1 role possibly drag

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Strange Case of Grippo the Ape Man, The

Synopsis:
Two carnies bring their idiot savant attraction (a musical genius) to a conservative Connecticut town and cause an uproar.

Notes:
Approx 45 min

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Genre:
experimental/comedy One Act

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Tent Show Tetragrammaton

Synopsis:
Four one-acts with a traveling sideshow theme: the Strange Case of Grippo the Apeman concerns two fly-by-night hoodlums who exhibit a monstrous idiot-savant who possesses a genius for music and impersonation; Universal Rundle, the story of a voodoo priest and bluesman anxiously awaiting the usurper who will overthrow him; the Ballad of Jasper Jaxon, based on a true story of the world's worst bank robber; and Strega Nona, in which the Grandma Witch reads the fortunes of audience members from her magical pot of spaghetti.

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Genre:
Piece

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Travesties of 2012

Synopsis:
This is a new vaudeville show masterminded by Trav S.D. Featuring the Cream of New Yorks Vaudeville Aristocracy: Celebrity impressionist Bob Greenberg (as seen on Saturday Night Live), Ventriloquist Carla Rhodes! (as seen on MTVs Weird Vibes), Clowns Jennifer Harder and Glenn Heroy (as seen on PBSs Circus), Operatic comedians Jenny Lee Mitchell and Dandy Darkly, Rodeo rope artist A.J. Silver, "Mock Star Killy Dwyer, the sketch team of Audrey Crabtree and Billy Dee Bedlam, Contortionist the Amazing Amy, Mentalist/Mind Reader Rory Raven, And more, more, more TBA! Plus Special Performances from the casts of the other NYMF Musicals. And Sketches, Numbers and Sundry Notions by the core cast: Noah Diamond, Michael Lester, Alexander MacDonald, Shashanah Newman, Isaiah Tanenbaum, C.L. Weatherstone, et al.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
45th Street Theatre (formerly Phil Bosakowski theatre)
354 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036    19 Jul 2012

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Genre:
vaudeville show

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Universal Rundle

Synopsis:
A pair of music industry professional attempt to swindle a famous blues musician in his bayou home. He turns the table using voodoo.

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs

1st Produced:
Tree Cafe, Portland, Maine    1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
comedy/experimental Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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White Trash

Synopsis:
Working class family bicker brutally until the Father collapses of a stroke

Notes:
Approx. 45 minutes

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Genre:
comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Willy Nilly

Synopsis:
Charles Manson meets Mad Magazine in this tasteless spoof about a filthy faux-Messiah, his cult of wanton women, and high Hollywood murder. With a raucous score, gratuitous nudity, acid freakouts, excessive gore, cruel stereotypes and slapstick misogyny, consider this the anti-Hair.

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Organisations:
Piper McKenzie

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Genre:
1h 45m Musical

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  4            Other:  -

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