NEWSLETTERS
SUMMARY*Special ticket price offer
*Previews
*California Tour
*NY Times Travel Show
*Press Release
*Additional Info
*B-bye
Lazer Vaudeville
John Houseman Theatre
New York City
Feb 16 thru May 14, 2005
All seats $25 with the discount code LVFAN36
Call telecharge for this ridiculously cheap price!
Offer good through March 31.
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 http://www.telecharge.com
Tickets are also available at The John Houseman Theater Box Office: 450 W. 42nd St. from noon - 8 pm (Monday, Wednesday - Saturday) and noon - 5pm (Sunday).
PREVIEWS
The opening of Lazer Vaudeville previews was a great success! We had totally full houses all weekend, and even this Monday night was packed. The press is paying attention also. NY1 shot footage of the live show, while representatives of The New York Times, Variety, New York magazine, Broadway.com and GoCityKids.com have all covered the show.
The theatre itself is very intimate, with steep seating looking down on the stage. We have taken full advantage of this by creating great lighting effects on the stage itself, using five times the lighting power we take on tour. There is really not a bad seat in the house, which holds about 300.
The vaudeville museum in the lobby is also getting a great response. Included are authentic juggling props, photos, show programs and newspaper articles from vaudeville's golden days. Of special interest to jugglers is documentation of Bobby May's big break in Brooklyn.
CALIFORNIA TOUR
Lazer Vaudeville's recent tour of California was a blast! We careened around the state from North to South and back again, performing 11 shows in six towns in two weeks. It was snowing when we left Boulder, but 36 hours later we were in Whittier enjoying a sunny 85 degrees! After two days in Whittier came Malibu, then an overnight drive up to Napa (didn't have any time to try the Pinot) and Modesto. Then back down South to Pasadena where we played Caltech's interesting round theatre, and finally Santa Rosa, where we sold out the 1600 seat Luther Burbank center. The last two locations had staircases as soon as you got off the stage, so changing costumes and running for props turned the show into a 90 minute step aerobics class! We hightailed it back to Boulder for a whirlwind four days, giving the finishing touches to the New York show, before heading out to Murray, Utah for a couple of shows. Then, right after the show was finished, back in the "party bus" (about as far from the truth as you can get) for the long haul to New York, only stopping in Boulder to repack the truck. Lots of fun, lots of work. It's good to be staying in one place for a little while!
NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL SHOW
Lazer Vaudeville will be featured at the New York Times Travel Show on March 5 and 6 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, NYC. Here's what Morningstar.com has to say:
"On the WNBC/WNJU-TV stage, be entertained by special live performances from new Broadway and Off-Broadway shows including Chicago, Good Vibrations, Lazer Vaudeville, Little Women, Cookin', and Newsical. Other stage performances include Taiwanese, Lithuanian, Nicaraguan and Malaysian dancers, singers and musicians."
For the full article, including more information about the travel show, visit: http://news.morningstar.com/news/BW/M02/D10/20050210005224.html
LAZER VAUDEVILLE PRESS RELEASE
"A high-tech twist on the arts of juggling comedy and acrobatics" - The New York Times
Cirque du Soleil meets Laurel and Hardy. Ringling Brothers meets the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Mummenschanz meets MTV.
Juggling, lasers, 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.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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B-BYE
Well if you made it this far, you are either A) my mother or B) procrastinating -- either way I expect to see you at the show! If you do come, I'll be in the lobby afterwards, so stop by and say hi.
So long, farewell, bye bye
- Nicholas Flair -
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