Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Friends With Benefits -- Part Three

Been busier than ever, getting ready for my double-header this Sunday, 12/6 (acting at the Barrow Group at 3pm, and dancing in Ranya's Holiday Gala at Lafayette Grill at 7pm) ...

... AND ...

...another double-header on Thursday, 12/10 (doing stand-up at Broadway Comedy at 6:30pm and dancing in Dalia Carella's Holiday Party at Je'Bon at 7:30pm).

See my Schedule Module on the right for detials... But here is Dalia's gorgeous flyer:

Flyer for Dalia Carella's Holiday Party & Benefit

I will also probably be performing in yet another Artistic New Directions benefit in February... but more on that later!

In the meantime, I know what you really want is PHOTOS, PHOTOS, PHOTOS.... (Special thanks, once again, to the lovely Cynthia Boucher for sharing her photographic talents).

When last we saw our valiant Pandemoniators (Pandemoniatricies??), the stunning Thalia....

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...fluttered her belly and shook her booty.... (she is a goddess of the bellyroll, by the way)

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Next up, the ever-glamorous Jaida...

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... and her divine double-veil...

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Next, Lourdes got super-serious with a Chinese veil-and-fan dance...

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And a little Kung-Fu Fighting!

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One Dangerous Dancer followed another... as the fire-spinning burlesque goddess Masae ...

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... shook a tail feather...

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.. and raised the roof! (Roof! Roof! Roof!)

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Balinese Diva Natasha graced the stage in full Leogong ...

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... and magic fingers ...

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Mime legend Richmond Shepard got silly...

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... with a touch of old-school debonair ...

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This was one of my favorite moments in the evening.

As part of his Stand-Up Mime routine (yes, stand-up ... as in verbal), he recites Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, and enacts the absurd text with even more absurd and brilliant movement.

When he does this routine in his own show, he has the poem printed on the back of the program and the audience recites it with him.

When there is no program, he asks anyone who happens to know it to recite it with him.

"In a crowd of fifty," he told me after the show, "maybe there will be one or two."

In Pandemonium -- over a dozen!!

Yeah baby!

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