Fairfield's own home-grown but celestially bound, Julie Benko, makes a one time appearance at La Roue Elayne at Cobbs Mill for our "Live Magazine at the Falls " show.
Tickets are selling quite briskly. Paid reservations are recommended for seating. For dinner, please add your name to the booking list as requested. The restaurant management is separate from Mousemuse.
Two boots of Bridgeport has whole-heartedly signed us on again for our Singer/Song/Writer show.
Monday, September 23, 2013.
7:00 PM door open. 7:30 show.
October Show is seeking submissions.
Writers take note!
We are looking for 1500 or less words of your own work to be read publicly. Non-fiction and fiction.
Send submissions through ina@mousemuse.com.
Debra Coleman - Got thrown out of a bed & breakfast, in a bridal gown.
Pete Pastorelli - Lived in indigent affordable housing in Westport in the 1970's, with his brother and sister who owned a vintage Mercedes and vintage Cadillac. How indigent were they?
Chad Kinsman - Was at a party at midnight on a beach in Barcelona, when they pulled a wounded man from the water. (File Photo)
Arch Currie - Didn't care for his boss, and let it be known; what could possibly go wrong?
Fran Dorf - On a first date, got mauled by gorillas.
Mark - A macho retired firefighter, started a lucrative second career as a drag queen.
Ina Chadwick - Two soft hearts find a rat in the garbage pail, but don't want to kill it.
Emcees: Our way too funny wise-guy women, Maureen Miller Hallock, Siobhan Powers and Maryann Villanueva will be a Greek chorus of emcees for the show,"Live Magazine at the Falls."If nothing else these three broads who can riff off one another are worth the ticket price. Broads? Mae West, they ain't, but they're just as funny.
Maureen Hallock is one of our premier storytellers and has wowed the crowds with her performances for close to three years. She taught English Literature to Catholic schoolgirls while enlightening them in the sexual subtext of works they had just glossed over. Her teachings were a hit with the girls, but not with the nuns. She is an experienced caterer and a devoted animal rescue volunteer.
Siobhan Powers is the director of Landmark pre-school, and a dealer in the one-tough-cookie mode, though she looks like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. She wears a tiara at work. Her first appearance with MouseMuse was hit when she told the tale of making a tactical choice to supervise her stubborn preschooler while on a grand train journey through France and Italy.
Maryann Villanueva prides herself as being a NYORICAN standup comic, bartender and the youngest of eleven children. During the daytimes she is a dental assistant in Westport, CT. Patients almost beg to come and sit in the chair just to be entertained by Maryann’s sassy wit.
In 2008, Duncan Christy created a song cycle for the Obama constituents called “The Blue State Blues.” His play “Magazine,” a musical comedy with dark overtones re the death of print, is in production. His music, poetry and written work will be available on his new website soon.
Hear a song from "Magazine" 03 One of the Boys
You don't get a prettier place with a grand performance space as well as a more open booking agent than Elayne Cassara. La Elayne accepted a MouseMuse proposal to launch one of our most dynamic ideas to date. "Live Magazine at the Falls."
What does a print magazine do? It gives you compelling content from issue to issue. We are going to give you a "Live Magazine" with lots of variety from event to event. We called it a magazine because of the diverse nature of spoken word and entertainment mixed in. We have three dates already booked. We chose a summer date to show you what we are all about...July 16.
It has long been my goal to find a troubadour who could carry the storytelling programs a little bit further. I have now found Duncan H. Christy of Norwalk who will be playing at the last show at FMHC on April 4, 2013 starting at 7:00 pm. Usually people just milled about drinking wine and chatting until 7:30 which they now can still do. But there will be accompaniment in the vestibule and the songs will be themed to "The Art of the Deal" which is the title of the show. Well, show up and hear the six stories we've got lined up from four men and two women. It's usually the women who outnumber the men.
Steve Bellwood, Peter Bloom, Derek Bolcer, Tom Fiffer, Kathleen Kiley, Maryann Villanueva.
Graveyard marriages, bartered 747 jets, size matters issues, buying a first class airplane seat for gorillas, getting burned in the kitchen and then run over by a Hummer, and the mafia chasing you for a silly bar bet you made half kidding. Those are the deals made, kept, broken, lived with....
When Steve di Costanzo came to our Storytelling show at Fairfield Museum and HistoCenter more than a year ago he invited us to do a segment on his Monday late night show, and we were quite happy being folded into Radio Base Camp at 11 pm.
When the rapidly growing listenership for WPKN began to request more community involvement for the independent station, the Program Director Ebong Udama picked Dennis Quinn a communications professor at Hofstra and an experienced radio drama buff for a show they folded easily into MouseMuse "Real People, Real Stories," with little cross over but lots of parallel pathways.
We both debuted with a Saturday show. Ours is at Noon. We debuted in December right after Christmas. On January 26. 2013 we aired our second show. The response was heartening, We offered free tickets on the air to the first emailer who defined disorderly conduct in respect to theme for our next show: The Wheels of Justice--Crimes and Misdemeanors on February 7, again at FMHC. See our facebook page for the quote from our radio listener, the first email to pop into the queue. Thanks to the two others who got there, but not first. Thanks to the 3 listeners who signed up on this site to receive our notices.
Storytellers from our archives, Bill Bosch, Ivy Eisenberg, Joe Limone, Blake Schneering can be heard on the www.wpkn.org archives. If you've been a storyteller, you'll be sure to hear one of your tales at some point. We post the program in advance.
New Storytellers or people wanting to be Storytellers should get in touch through our website, and we will surely be in touch.
TOTALLY Kimleigh made a debut in New York a couple of years ago at the Fringe Festival. Every critic, including the Wall Street Journal raved. She moved to L.A. where she is a sell-out and well-known talent who has been on the "Mentalist" and other TV Shows. On DECEMBER 8, we bring Kimleigh to The Bijou Theatre, www.thebijoutheatre.com for a jaw dropping solo performance that will have you laughing, crying and applauding the miracles of humanity. This is not just a woman's show. This is a life-transforiming experience. See the trailers and make sure you get there. There are high wire moments in www.TotallyKimleigh.com
But the best moments are the ones where you see her live.
Doors open at 7 PM
Dinner is available, drinks are fabulous, table side service or auditorium seats.
Travel Stories for Planes,Trains, Automobiles.
Writers, singers and songwriters capture us, captivate us in ways no one else can. They offer us illumination for the dark spaces in our souls by baring their own.
Come. Join us on Tuesday, November 13th as "Opening Chapters, Closing Notes" brings both to Two Boots Restaurant. This expansion of the 'Writer's Cafe' features writer/singer/songwriters offering their gift of crafted word through spoken word and song. The featured artist will Robert Steven Williams, an incredibly talented guitarist, lyricist and author from Westport. In addition, Tom Fiffer, author of the Tom Aplomb blog and a gifted storyteller, will be joining him onstage reading from selected short stories.
In addition to having a great night out, you'll also be helping others. All proceeds from the $10 cover charge will be donated to the Red Cross for Disaster Relief.
Doors open at 7. Event runs from 7:30PM -8:30 PM.
Two Boots Restaurant is located in Bridgeport at 281 Fairfield Avenue. Call 203-331-1377 or visit www.twobootsbridgeport.com.
'Tis a beautiful thing to be Irish or to be in the company of the Irish.
"There by the lake of beer,
We'd be drinking good health forever,
And every drop a prayer."
~from A Lake of Beer for God, by St. Brigid of Kildare
And nothing goes better with good company and good drink than great storytelling. We're in the process of interviewing storytellers and we have a quite a few names. The Gaelic Club will be open to the public for this event, which is rare indeed. The pub bar will be open for those who care to enjoy a wee dram. Do remember to bring cash as it is a cash bar only. Located on Beach Road in Fairfield, tucked away just off the Post Road, The Gaelic Club is a hidden bit of heaven.
October 18, 20112 at The Bijou www.thebijoutheatre.com. will be absolutely thrilling for, Joe Limone and Ina opening the evening, onstage for Adam Wade, www.Adamwade.com. Adam is the 18 time StorySLAM winner at the "Moth." Adam is like the Garrison Keeler of the Northeast. Homey, adorable and humble. He's able to make fun of himself. It's a gift that has landed him nighttime TV gigs in Storytelling. The show will feature Ina doing two 8 minute stories, Joe doing a "clliff serialized story for 12 minutes, and Adam Wade is his incredibly likable way will make you stop, look, listen and care. He's a rare bird. Vulnerable and funny. Mark your calendars. Adam has never been around these parts. This is big stuff for MouseMuse. Yay!