NEWSLETTERS
Hello and Happy New Year!
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LAZER VAUDEVILLE OFF-BROADWAY RUN
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LAZER VAUDEVILLE REMAINING TOUR
We won't be doing all the touring dates due to the run in NYC, find out which dates are still happening here.
First a little catch-up: after a mini-tour this fall, which included playing a fun show in my hometown (Ithaca, NY), I spent the holiday season juggling at FAO Schwartz, the huge toy store on Fifth Ave. Yeah, the one with the oversize piano featured in the movie Big. Iworked mostly in the "plush" department, which is just a fancy technical term for stuffed animal. They have every kind of animal you can imagine. Giant reindeer, giraffes, $15,000 elephants... Everything a kid can never have. The funnest part of the job was watching the people in fur coats walk through the plush section. Talk about good camoflouge.
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LAZER VAUDEVILLE OFF-BROADWAY RUN
This much anticipated event is finally a reality! We spent last week rehearsing in Boulder, and most of the time was used designing the lighting for the revised New York show. We have about 5 times the lighting capabilities that we normally tour with, and the show has jumped up a notch! The theatre is going to be a fun space to perform in, and we have special plans for the lobby to kick off the whole experience.
I am really looking forward to seeing a lot of friends at this show. It's great to be in an accessible place for so long. I don't get many visitors in places like Menomonie and Woonsocket!
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
Lazer Vaudeville at the John Houseman Theatre, New York City Feb 16 thru May 14, 2005.
All seats $25 - 45. The John Houseman Theatre is located at 450 W. 42nd St. New York, New York.
Lazer Vaudeville plays Monday, Wednesday - Saturday @ 8pm, Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday @ 2pm. Tickets can be purchased by calling Telecharge at (212) 239-6200 or on the web at www.telecharge.com
Tickets are also available at The John Houseman Theater Box Office: 450 West 42nd St from noon - 8 pm. (Monday, Wednesday - Saturday) and noon - 6pm (Sunday).
EMAIL ME FOR DISCOUNT INFO.
Cirque du Soleil meets Laurel and Hardy. Ringling Brothers meets the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Mummenschanz meets MTV.
Juggling, lasers, magic, classic screwball comedy, and technology take center stage as a new vaudeville show opens in New York. Lazer Vaudeville, directed by Carter Brown and choreographed by Cindy Marvell begins performances at The John Houseman Theater (450 W. 42nd Street) on February 16th with an official opening night set for March 9th. This limited engagement runs through May 14th.
Lazer Vaudeville stars bicycle hoop-roller and rope-spinner Carter Brown, international juggling champion Cindy Marvell, and acrobatic cigar box juggler Nicholas Flair. Lazer Vaudeville has a set design by Maia Robbins-Zust, laser design by Cory Simpson, and costume design by Jennifer Johanos. Jesse Manno is the musical director. PRESS AGENT KEITH SHERMAN & ASSOC. CONTACT: Keith Sherman / Scott Klein 212-764-7900
Director and performer Carter Brown said "Lazer Vaudeville has been touring the country for almost 20 years. It's been my dream to bring contemporary vaudeville to the American stage. We are excited to create a brand new show for New York that blends technology and entertainment."
PERFORMER BIOS:
CARTER BROWN
Carter started performing at the age of eight, juggling his way through a hectic schedule of gymnastics, dance, mime, drama, and other hyperactive pursuits. As a teenager, he was nationally ranked as a state ski champion at the Putney School in Vermont. As a theatre and art major at the University of Vermont, Carter directed The Silent Company mime troupe. Soon after, he studied at the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theater in Blue Lake, CA., hiked the Appalachian Trail, and won acceptance to Ringling Bros. Clown College. After a two-year stint with Ringling Brothers' Barnum & Bailey Circus, he joined Carden International Circus as a soloist for four years, simultaneously designing sound, lights and choreography. His bicycle-rim juggling act has won renown in South America, Europe, Canada, Japan, and the Monte Carlo Festival du Cirque, where he was one of the only Americans invited to perform in the history of the event. He founded Lazer Vaudeville in 1987; since then, it may be said that only his hoops have rolled more miles than he has. Television appearances include the PBS series "Center Stage," The PBS documentary "Juggling Work and Family" with Hedrick Smith, and the network special on Ringling Brothers' clowns.
CINDY MARVELL
As a teenager, Cindy Marvell trained with Michael Moschen, Fred Garbo, and Bob Berky at the Antic Arts Academy at SUNY Purchase, practicing her way to the Carnegie Hall Serenades Festival. She graduated from Oberlin College with honors, working at King's Island Theme Park and on the streets of Dublin, London, and Florence. In 1989, she became the first woman to win the International Jugglers' Association's Championship. She received the "Most Incredible" and "Most Amazing" awards from the Atlanta Jugglers' Association and the Outstanding Woman Award from the Cascade Jugglers of Seattle. Dance training: Neubert Ballet, Limon Institute, and the Isadora Duncan Foundation. New York credits: Bouncing Back with dancer/choreographer Wendy Osserman (Dance Theater Workshop), Ladyfingers (Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and the American Museum of Natural History), Young People's Concerts (Avery Fisher Hall), Cirque Eloize (The New Victory Theater), The Ritz (opening for Bob Weir), the N.Y. Renaissance Festival, "Sesame Street's 25th Anniversary" and the P. B. S. Special "Children and the Bomb" with Elizabeth Swados. Off stage, Cindy has written articles for The New York Times, JUGGLE Magazine, Spectacle Journal for the Circus Arts, and others. She produced the DVD, A Juggling Journey: Cindy Marvell in Performance (www.dube.com) and is featured in the DVD, Trailblazers: Women Who Juggle.
NICHOLAS FLAIR
Nicholas got hooked on juggling as a high school student in Ithaca, NY. As a student at Brown University, he founded the Out of Hand Juggling Club, studied dance, worked with the Pan-Twilight Circus, and joined Misnomer Dance Theater, performing at the Joyce Soho. After receiving a B.A. in mathematics, he defied the laws of probability by pursuing graduate work at Montreal's Ecole Nationale de Cirque. There he created his acrobatic cigar box routine while training in all-around circus arts for three years. He has performed in The Metropolitan Opera's Parade, New York Theater Ballet's The Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden and with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in Times Square. Collaborations have taken him to the International Jazz Festival of Montreal and the Summer Festival of Quebec. Nicholas has taken to the waves with Holland America cruise lines and hit the airwaves on FOX TV's 30 Seconds to Fame. In 2003, he toured Switzerland with Circus Starlight as a juggler, trampolinist, and clown. He has performed at the European Juggling Convention in Rotterdam, taken to the streets in Paris, Rome, and Florence, and was recently featured at the International Jugglers' Festival in Buffalo, NY.
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LAZER VAUDEVILLE REMAINING TOUR
Because of the NYC run, we, meaning Me, Carter and Cindy, will be cancelling most of the tour. We will still play California at the end of January and beginning of February, as well as Murray, Utah on Feb. 10, 2005. Then comes New York, and then we'll finish off the season with a week in Floriday in May. Not bad as it turns out! We, meaning Lazer Vaudeville, will still be doing the whole tour. Explanation: there is a second unit touring the states while we do our run in NY, the "Lazer Vaudeville tall unit." So-called because all members are over 6 feet. That may be in Trivial Pursuit someday, so jot it down in a sage place. The tall unit is currently rehearsing in Boulder, and their show will include parts of the original Lazer Vaudeville show.
Get tour details and more at www.nicholasflair.com or www.lazervaudeville.com.
So there's the scoop. I hope to see a bunch of you in the audience in NYC!
All the best -
Nicholas Flair
(aka Nick Goldsmith)
circus@unforgettable.com
www.nicholasflair.com
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