This sounds way cool, got info from Amos - he has a shoot at that time, if I don't have gig practice then I may go, anyone want to join me? It's this Wednesday at 10PM in the city 308 Bowery across from CBGBs, $5 - this one seems like very good bang for the buck - description below:
> DEVILS, DEMONS, CLOWN & FOOL
> Zero Boy’s Halloween Black Comedy Ritual
> Irreverent black comedy Halloween ritual by weird and
> strange performers guided
> by the nefarious Zero Boy.
> With Sxip, Dzieci, Ethan Lipton, Christopher Rozzi, Todd
> Nickels-Urban Shaman,
> Master Lee, Eric Davies, Karen Sneider, Shecky Beagleman,
> Big Mike, Tom Burnett
> and Damaris Webb
>
> Follow the black ritual of death and comedy. As the
> seasons change and the veil
> between truth and lies becomes open. The dark passage
> into comedy is unfastened
> for all to see. Let us with some help from the OED
> define;
> Devils; (in Christian and Jewish belief) the supreme
> spirit of evil; Satan. An
> evil spirit; a demon; a superhuman malignant being. A
> personified evil force or
> attribute.
> Demons; Those possessed by devils. a forceful, fierce, or
> skilful performer (a
> demon on the stage; a demon player).
> Clowns; a comic entertainer, esp. in a pantomime or
> circus, usu. with
> traditional costume and make-up. a silly, foolish, or
> playful person.
> Fool; a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a stupid
> person, a jester; a
> clown or a dupe
> Ooooooooh! Scary, scary, scary!
> This is a night of irreverent black Comedy unleashed by a
> posse from hell.
> Pal’s of Zero Boy. An exploration of the archetypes that
> saturate our society
> and their historical roots through performance by some
> Devils, Demons, Clown &
> Fools. Journey to the nether regions of comedy and die
> laughing on the way.
>
> Wednesday October 29 @ 10 PM $5
> The Bowery Poetry Club
> 308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB's
> F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker |
> 212-614-0505
>
> www.zeroboy.com
>
> The Ritual Gang:
> Dzieci (pronounced djyeh-chee, and Polish for "children")
> is a theatre group
> dedicated to service through art. Their annual "Fool's
> Mass" will take place at
> various sacred sites throughout the city this Christmas
> season.
> http://dziecitheatre.org
> The company includes: Paola Chaves, Casey Groves, Martha
> Hoffman, John Norman,
> Michael Richardson, Rebecca Sokoll, Bob Strock, Andrew
> Ullenhopp, Rachel
> Whitman under the direction of Matt Mitler
>
> Ethan Lipton
> If Andy Kaufman wrote jazz standards and Norah Jones sang
> them, they'd sound
> like the gentle, rip-roaring tunes of love, loss and
> hostility that come
> from the lips of a capella singer Ethan Lipton. Ethan
> performs regularly at
> Deep Dish Cabaret and hosts his own show once a month at
> Low bar in Dumbo.
>
> "Performance artist and musician Sxip, is a whirling
> dervish of intensity and
> inventiveness, carving transcendent melodies out of thin
> air on instruments
> that he either makes himself or twists beyond
> recognition...With a musical
> arsenal that includes the industrial flute, the mutant
> harmonica, the
> obnoxiophone, the triple-extended penny whistle, a
> miniature hand-bell choir,
> and a regurgitated music box, he conjures a world of
> infernal calliopes and
> cotton candy machetes wielded by Gypsy crones with angel
> feet"-SF Weekly
>
> Red Bastard is a Frankenstein! Part genius. Part star.
> Part Mock and Roll
> Freakshow. His wide ass is widely acclaimed, in the
> vaudeville, variety and
> Burlesque circuits.
> Born in the garbage filled alley of the Mime Conservatory
> of Paris in 1969, as
> a result of the sexual frustrations of a maligned hobo
> and the promise of an
> abandoned can of greasepaint, he is now he is known
> throughout the world as the
> foremost authority on Movement. His piercing approach to
> pedagogy has
> shattered Egos from Broadway, to Hollywood, to
> unsuspecting Preschool
> Performers
>
> "Big Mike" produces the long running performance series
> "Big Mike""Big Show" at
> the Collective Unconscious which will move to the 94
> Saint Marks Place Theater
> in December.
>
> Mucho Gerolimo.. (Shecky Beagleman).is a shit eatin' pot
> licker from way back
> when. She's a female wrestler but make no mistake she's
> packin' And she knows
> she's really fuckin' funny cause as she always says
> "everywhere i go peeps are
> laughin’ at me". Her foot is in a cast cause she dove off
> her mother's garage
> practicing some jack ass moves cause she definitely is
> gonna be the first bitch
> on the show, but she landed in a pile of dog shit with a
> piece of metal
> stickin’ out of it. Woo Hoo!!
>
> Damaris Webb; The Continuing Adventures of Ashira69!
> The all-woman super-hero performance series! Ashira --
> the 7-foot amazon with
> a perpetual smile -- heads a cast of sexy, stylized, and
> campy super-heroines
> and villains living in a post-apocalyptic North America.
> A comic book comes to
> life! For information about upcoming episodes please
> visit www.Ashira69.org
>
> Christopher Rozzi has been writing and performing comedy
> in NYC for ten years.
> After getting his start in various improv and sketch
> groups, Chris began work
> on his own one-man show titled, "Outre Island," which he
> continues to develop
> and expand today.
>
> Master Lee channel’s the great surrealist painter
> Salvador Dali. On Nov. 15th a
> staged reading of Dali! Inside the mind of a genius. Will
> be performed at
> Collective Unconscious. For more information contact him
> at
> Avantarts@Hotmail.com.
>
> Todd Nickels Urban Shaman; Dark rituals for absurd times
> this veteran of
> personal power opens the dimensional doorway for the
> psychically needy.
>
> Karen Sneider is a comedian, writer and cartoonist living
> in Williamsburg,
> Brooklyn. Right now she is working on a one-woman show
> called: "I just want to
> cuddle", about dating and how crazy that is!!!!!! Check
> out her website for
> more information: www.metromonster.com.
