February 15, 2010

March 3rd, 2010 | Author: Jim Moore

The Amazing, Outstanding and Outrageously Great

New York Downtown Clown Revue

What a lineup it was!

(Two of the Six Acts were no where to be found! Oops!)

BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

The Host of the Evening was in GOOD SPIRITS as Always!

: Christopher Lueck is up to the Challenge!

Christopher Lueck is up to the Challenge!

Show #46

This month’s Downtown Clown revue had a great assortment of talent. Dave McKay from the wilds of Toronto, Canada. He runs the website TorontoClown.com, coproduces the Lunacy Cabaret and coproduces the Toronto Festival of Clowns. Dave has studied Pochinko clown with Michael Kennard of Mump and Smoot, buffon with Adam Lazarus and improv at the Second City Training Conservatory program. He presented his character TREFOR.

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TREFOR

: TREFOR at The New York Downtown Clown Revue

Not content with wishing for a better world he wants some one to help him. Make romance, beauty and love! He solicits a volunteer.

: Trefor with Rob Lok. The lucky volunteer.

The making of a life long friendship this is NOT! It was a delightful exchange and one that the audience enjoyed mostly.

Dave’s lispy monolog was heartfelt, romantic and depressingly uplifting all at the same time.

But this one man was not enough…TREFOR had to have ROMANCE on stage. HE had to make it happen. Catch the love.

: A Couple of Love Birds with Trefor

He wanted something from them. He wanted the couple to donate their magnetic love breath. And so it shall be!

It was at that moment he made the audience smile with overwhelming group love!

: Trefor pleads with the Audience Once more.

Thanks for that NEW YORK LOVE!

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R_C_E

This trio is comprised of Rob Lok, Christina Gelsone and Erin Schmahl. They have had their troubles working together in the past!

Rob has worked with 6 clown partners in his fourteen year career. He’s on speaking terms with 3 of them. Christina has worked with 3 clown partners in her 10 year career. She still performs with two of them.

Erin is one of those three partners that are still speaking with Rob. Erin has to wonder what she did wrong.

The evening was a ‘hit and miss’ bout between the three partners. Trying to get the scene done right. It was always ‘right’ to one of them but the other felt it needed to be changed yet again.

The first Attempt to get it right!

The first attempt to get anything right is always the hardest. Let’s try and do it again! My Way! (The right Way!)

Heads up!

All right! Now we can finish this bit of business with a finale.

OK….Now we have to discuss what we did right and what we did wrong…RIGHT?

Rob wants to try it with the other partner!

WOW! How can I do this? You aren’t going to make me lift you? Are you….

It doesn’t help to get mad at your clown partners…Sometimes you can go crazy!

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CLAIRE

A delightful stage presence makes an audience feel at home and CLAIRE WEDEMEYER is one of those performers that has that gift!

She toured with the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus and as a featured clown with the Kelly Miller Circus.

She has street performed in Chicago, Boulder, and in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Tonight she performed her ‘magic’ ring act and a did a piece with a delightful broom that had a personality of it’s own.

She whispers to the audience ‘magic’ as she moves the rings in and out of reality.

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Featured Performers

LEGS & ALL

Featured in the 2010 FRIGID Festival at Under St. Marks Theatre

Two very movement orientated performers. Summer Shapiro and Peter Musante.

Summer, a San Francisco Clown Conservatory graduateand current Climate Theatre resident artist, has written, performed three original physical comedy shows, which toured to San Francisco, Hawaii and New York.

For more information on Summer and Peter click on their names above!

The excerpt from their full length show LEGS & ALL is a visual potpourri of images.