MerryMakers perform "Fired"
PMT Fall Showcase
Friday November 20th, 8pm
PMT House of Dance
69 W. 14th St. Buzzer 3
(North East corner of 6th Ave on 14th St. between Rehoboth Spa and Red Mango)

Ticket Purchasing Information :
Regular Ticket Prices: $12 in Advance; $16 at the door.
Student Discount Ticket Prices: $10 in Advance, $14 at the door for students w/ a valid college or high school student ID.

Advanced Ticket Purchasing Information
-Purchase tickets directly at PMT Dance Studio (14th St. and 6th Ave, 69 14th St) from 10:00-9:00pm daily.
-All direct advance tickets can be purchased no later than the day before the date of the show you would like to attend.
-Tickets cannot be held at the door on the day of the show.

To Purchase Advance Via Phone:
Call 212-924-5694. All ticket purchases can be made with a valid Visa or Master Card.

"Act 1, Scene 1" Video Segement

This video segment of "Act 1, Scene 1" is from the Vaudevillionaires of Luna Park show at Galapagos Art Space on 6.26.09.

Performed and conceived by Lillibelle and Wild Red.

Music by The Red Hook Ramblers inspired by Edith Piaf's Milord.

Video by Andrew Foster.

Catch the whole act live next in the DUMBO Dance Festival. 9.27.09, 2pm. Outside in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Free!

We've Joined the Circus...

The MerryMakers have exciting news:

We are joining a circus for a day!!!

On Sunday September 6th we will be premiering a brand new act in "Cirque Off 2009!". Come see our dance/mine/comedy ode to the 9 to 5er called "Fired". We do it in clown shoes, with short shorts, and big cups.... OH MY!

There will be several other extraordinary acts as well. Here is the down low for the show:

MerryMakers premiere "FIRED" in "CIRQUE OFF 2009!"

Live On Stage! Circus acts galore! From the hilarious to the beautiful to the bizarre and all the way back again, and set to the amazing live music of Smokin Billy Slater and the Hot Stocks, we are bringing back the Cirque Off festival for a third year, showcasing the talents of some of the finest emerging and established circus artists from New York and Beyond! Cirque This sets the stage, while an amazing roster of unusual and spectacular guests will dazzle you like you've never been dazzled before! Acts that are Beautiful! Hilarious! Amazing! Shocking! And everything in between! (NOT family friendly and NOT for the faint of heart!)

SEPTEMBER 6th, 8pm

TRISKELION ARTS THEATER
118 North 11th St, 3rd Floor (b/w Berry & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC

$12 Reservations strongly recommended!

Reserve your Tickets Here

Hope you can make it!!


XO

Lillibelle and Wild Red

New Guest Star Sneak Peak

Check out our new company member. Betty Grable will be taking Marilyn Monroe's place in "Act 1, Scene 1" starting this Friday June 26th at Galapagos. Click here for the full line-up and show info: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=84191062547&ref=mf.
or on the "Upcoming Performance Information" link to your left.

A special thanks to Charlie Hodges for his design upgrades that have allowed Betty to be more stream-lined, less shiny, and two inched taller. Plus, without him, I'd never know that white duct tape existed!?!

Wild Red, Lillibelle, and Betty can't wait to entertain you this Friday or soon enough. We've all gotten into the DUMBO Dance Festival this September as well! Keep checking back for show updates and more behind the scenes blogs.

Marilyn RIP

(Photos 1, 4, 5, 6 taken by Eric Bandiero during the PMT Spring Showcase. Photos 2,3 taken by Andrew Foster during The Love Show at Galapagos)

Oh Marilyn, before there was you, there was simply:

"Here is where Wild Red will dance with some doll or something".

There was a time we thought you would be created from a coat rack and wig, or that you would be sewn... and soft. We even thought of ways to acquire one of those rolling IV-thingies from a hospital so that you could glide across the floor with us. In the end, you became real as a three- sectioned, glued, taped, and Velcro monster.

You can't fit fully into our traveling bag. You've given us much grief, refusing to stay erect, not responding to Wild Red's advances Um, dude, she is cardboard. she is so shiny and perfect She is not real that's the point! whatever, you are just jealous Lillibelle. Stop butting into the blog... Hmm, where was I, oh yes... Your yardstick must now obtrusively stick out of our suitcase whenever we use you. You've panicked Wild Red in performances and had me nearly lose faith in prop partnering.

Now you must leave us, for you are too old... er young. We shed a tear in your passing. Betty Grable may better suit the 30's themed shows that are all the rage in these tough economic times, but you, sweet Marilyn, will always be a part of our original cardboard beauty vision. We won't forget that you were there for us as we debuted our "Act 1, Scene 1". We leave you with a haiku:

Marilyn with clear tape

you broke the suitcase zipper

the end RIP

The Vaudevillionaires of Luna Park

If you haven't seen "Act 1, Scene 1" or have been dying to see it again... June 26th is your chance. Sadly, Marilyn isn't able to do this one with us, but Betty Grable has graciously stepped into her place (hubba, hubba). We are a part of this show:

THE VAUDEVILLIONAIRES OF LUNA PARK

A Tribute to the Heyday of Coney Island Entertainment
Including: Showgirls, Acrobats, Clowns, and Crooners!

JUNE 26th, 2009

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
DUMBO
718-384-1369

10pm, $15 adv. tickets, $20 at the door
Please click:
www.galapagosartspace.com/galapagosindumbo.html
for reservations

Produced by Miss Harvest Moon

This show will include aerial dance, burlesque, a live band, MerryMakers (woohoo!), and a big 1930's style finale with top hats and high-heeled shoes. There is also a bar at this venue.

Hope you can make it!!!

Ham Proof

If ever there was any evidence needed that the MerryMakers are hams (and have a great time being them) it is here:

http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/ericnyb/pmtsattler

The password is pmtebrs.

These are the proofs from our debut of MerryMakers.  Hope they make you laugh.

Good news as well. We've just booked another gig in June. We will be an act in a 1930's themed Burlesque/Aerial variety show produced by Miss Harvest Moon.  This show will be awesome!  Details to be posted asap. 

Pictures, video, and a new act called "Fired" are also on their way soon.

PMT Spring Showcase Debut

On April 17th, 2009 we performed "Act 1, Scene 1" for our first live audience.
Man were we nervous beforehand.  Though we both have had plenty of performing experience, this was the first time being responsible for all artistic choices, and what bold choices they are: two minutes of mime to open, a song in French, an entire suitcase of props to contend with as well as a homemade cut out of Marilyn Monroe to be build on stage.  Wild Red enters with a ratty half afro and Lillibelle has doll lashes, cheeks, and lips drawn on...

Would it translate? Would be be able to fully embody our alter egos? Would the audience laugh?  As the show began, Wild Red kept nervously teasing her hair until Lillibelle took away her brush and Aquanet.

The stage manager called us to places.  Lillibelle did one last OCD check of the prop set up and it was lights, music, action.  Wild Red stepped unto stage, paused in shock at the standing room audience, and Lillibelle booty bumped her all the way onto stage, getting a giggle from a girl in the front row.  

We were off.  Once the laughter started.  There was no stopping us.  Hams by nature, we pulled out all the stops. By the time we tossed off our last big kick and dropped to our knees we were greeted with a wall of applause and a sea of smiling faces.

We got off stage, hearts pounding, lungs screaming, and let off an ecstatic sigh of relief.  We had done it.  We had made an audience laugh and smile; we had had a blast; and we could hardly wait to do it all again.

The Birth of a Comedy Duo

On Feburary 12th, 2009, Elizabeth Burwell walked through the door of studio B at PMT Dance Studios where Rachel Sattler was taking herself through a basic ballet warm-up.  

Rachel had been renting a weekly hour slot in the dance studio for some time in order to try and kick start her choreography aspirations.  The truth was, though, many days she spent her hour with "dancers block", just listening to music and stretching rather than creating the master pieces of her dreams.

Elizabeth wasn't sure she was going to turn up to the studio that day.  Rachel had offered that she could join, but Elizabeth was tired and hungry.  She had been in NYC for nearly 6 years, done countless auditions, and though she had done several various dance projects in her time, she hadn't had fun in the studio for a long time.

But, she walked through the door on that fateful Thursday afternoon and surprised Rachel.  They both chatted about what was currently inspiring and frustrating them about dance.  Elizabeth had been listening to Ediath Piaf recently and liked a song called Milord.  So they put it on, and Rachel taught Elizabeth how to polka.  They polkaed, laughed, and left the studio that day with both a lighter step and the seed of a grand idea in the back of their minds.  So went the first day of what would soon become the MerryMakers.