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!

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

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

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!

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

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.

To describe it with words will not do it any justice. They story is about a man and a woman.

But not any man and woman.

We had a chance to interview Summer and Peter before the show.

Interview with Summer and Peter

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The Next and LAST Clown Revue is scheduled for:

MONDAY MARCH 15th, 2010 8pm.

Scheduled to appear are the following performers:

Matt Mitler

Rachel Resnick

Cheryl Schruefer

Daniel Forlano

Aya Tucker

Erickson Huertas

and more…..

KRAINE THEATRE

85 East 4th St. (Between 2nd Ave and Bowery)

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The NY Downtown Clown Revue is produced by Amanda Pekoe and Christopher Lueck.

The Technical Director and the one that makes the show possible to all the performers with such an amazingly short tech time is

Justin Sturges.

Holiday time in December and we had Le Fromage Royal in the house. Watch Out!

BUT hosting the show was the SPECIAL GUEST HOST Mr. Michael Getlan.

His assortment of head wear was amazing. You might think he was a hat salesman. One after another he adorned his head with. Each more hysterical then the last. It was so much fun. We didn’t need anyone else. Just have the Special Host come out with different hats inbetween blackouts.

Anyway the evening moved on to a wonderful series of short pieces by the delightful women clown trio THOSE IN THE NOSE.

Nina Levine walked out on stage with a small mistletoe plant on her head (another funny hat!) and it was the ‘kiss me if you stand underneath me’ plant.

Nina waits for that special someone.

Next we find her waiting for that special someone…
STILL!

Getting restless waiting for that Special someone.

Finally some comes up from the crowd.

Waiting again!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       That is what she was waiting for!

OK. That was wonderful..who is next?

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Roland Zee

Roland Zee came onto the stage and made the air become objects. Trained as a pantomime he did a delightful

series of vignettes that showed off his great skill making us believe what was not there.

He even invited an audience member up on stage to help him move a balloon that seemed to have

gotten stuck in mid air.

Michael Getlan’s daughter Gillian with Roland Zee

Why won’t this move?

Roland awards Gillian a prize for her hard work on stage.

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Mariko Iwasa

Mariko Iwasa is a professional actor and dance performer from Japan. I have seen her work improve so much in the last year. I know she loves the material she performs. It is filled with laughter and smiles. A cabaret act with props and costumes that change so fast you can’t imagine where she gets all the energy or where she gets all the props.

It always seems to work out for Mariko’s characters no matter how difficult it gets!

Working your way thru the entertainment world. Whew!

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THOSE IN THE NOSE

Evelyn Tuths, Holly McCracken and Nina Levine

Hysterical song with trio’s fun antics that got us all laughing.

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THE GAME

Every month the New York Downtown Clown Revue decides to give away some really fun CLOWN novelties, tickets to shows, DVD’s etc.

BUT the contestants must play the GAME!

It was a NEW concept from Micheal Getlan. IT was wild and crazy. You can tell from the pictures. Paper cups and building them as HIGH as possible

in the limited amount of time given.

Michael begins the proceedings.

The three contestants are ready to play.

Jacob working hard to get it really tall.

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And Introducing

LE FROMAGE ROYAL

Christian Royal (Lueck)

Joel Royal (Jeske) – Christian Royal (Lueck) – Michael Royal (Richter)

Their antics are so funny as they enjoy what they are doing together as much as we enjoy watching them.

Magic tricks anyone?

Joel, Michael and Christopher having a blast!

Joel Royal (Jeske)

Video interview with Joel Jeske, Christian Lueck and Michael Richter.

(click on small window icon on lower right of screen for full screen)

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NEXT CLOWN REVUE: Monday Jan. 18th. 2010

The Amazing Nocheaux

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Photographs from this show are available by emailing jim@moorepics.com. Only performers pictured can inquire!