We love that we are back at COBBS MILL for Newly revised Dinner Theater with Broadway back to her hometown, Julie Benko. She returning with a new accompanist and part of a great duo Jason Yeager.
“Blame it on Our Youth.”
Performance $15
Drinks and a la carte menu
Full dinner menu available with advance reservations
Table service during the show.
The Lake Room overlooking the waterfalls is just where you want to be.
Westport, CT – For anyone who has attended the numerous and hilarious Storytelling events presented by Westporter Ina Chadwick’s MouseMuse Productions, it will come as no surprise that these showcase events have finally caught the eye of a NewYork City cabaret owner, John Forslund. Forslund owns the underground, a premiere venue for showcasing new talent and for the past 13 years a “go-to” au courant and eclectic entertainment destination. For Chadwick it is an ideal setting for the resources of her MouseMuse Live Magazine , a not for profit arm of the production company. Forslund says, “We are excited to be bringing Storytelling in all of its stage varieties to our venue which has already made a name for itself with Bound for Broadway. Our intention in partnering with Chadwick is to create a more robust and cultured theatre-going crowd on the upper west side, especially on Sunday afternoons.” The first show will take place on December 8, 2013 at 4PM.
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“Where’d that erection come from?”
Hear Maureen Miller Hallock muse on the current state of advertising to men and to woman, all wanting to boost their sexual power with meds you see on the 6:00 PM news.
And as if Maureen’s brilliant observations about Suburban Wifery weren’t enough, she will work in tandem with absolutely the opposite voice, Steve Bellwood. British, coal mining kid from Northern England who will dazzle you with his “When the Old Man Died” monologue.
Sunday, Oct. 27th, doors open at 4:00 PM, show starts at 4:30 PM.
$20, open seating, at La Roue Elayne at Cobbs Mill Inn, 12 Old Mill Road, Weston (203) 227-7221.
10% off dinner with ticket purchase. Dinner reservations strongly suggested.
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Fairfield’s Nationally Known Star Here
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. 
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Singer/ Song/Writer Back by Request
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
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The Chadwick Papers: Have Bed, Won’t Travel
My mother-in-law, a widow, and a woman of confusing and often conflicting ideas, recently dug in her heels, though she thoroughly disapproves of any exercise requiring the use of her legs) and went on a cruise by herself.
Despite the fact that she claims to be unable to walk from a parking lot to a restaurant door, she managed to get herself and her multiple suitcases containing three outfits with a change of shoes for for each day and for each outfit, and three for each night, to the airport. Using handicapped travel services she was wheeled around the airport carrying multiple plastic bags filled with post-its and old expired coupons in her lap, and then again wheeled through the cruise ship long lines for registry to get onboard.
Presumably she walked narrow ship’s aisle – since she is not technically handicapped.
When she settled into her cabin, she truly settled in.
We called her several times when she was in other ports besides Miami. We had been very worried about her mobility issues. She is 85 and was befuddled at 45,((or maybe 25?) so this decade has not brought much clarity for those around her as to explanations of why she does this thing or that thing.
She has always loved cruises, though she doesn’t love the quick stops at other ports if she can’t stay in the duty free shops for five hours. Beaches and museums hold no interest for her. She loves the planned meals, the all you can eat concept that still thrills many of those seniors raised during the Depression (1929). Though she is a doctor’s daughter, she claims she grew up so poor that she didn’t have a nickel to go to the movies. We know that this is an internal feeling of poverty. Her parents owned a brownstone in New York City from 1920 to 1960-something. They may have had to cut back but there was indeed food and a place to live.
Toward the end of her trip when I asked what she liked most about the trip, she said, “My bed.” She had been sleeping in a 47-year-old mattress until eight years ago when she moved from a house to a condo. When she bought the condo she bought the owners’ 25-year-old mattress.
On the ship she slept on a “Memory Foam” mattress. She awoke with no aches and pains. She reported that she only got out of bed for dinner. “This is the best nap I have ever taken.” When we tried to convince her that she should treat herself to a mattress just like the one in her stateroom, her overly thrifty side went into overdrive. “Pay for a new mattress when the old one is still working?”
“The nightly rate for a cruise is what? ” I asked.
She didn’t answer.
“This was a very expensive nap,” I said.
Yesterday, we learned that my mother-in-law was driving around looking for a tailor to hem her king-sized bed sheets from the Flower Power days. Why? She bought a memory foam mattress that is a queen. “Why should I throw away perfectly good sheets?” she said.
This time I didn’t try to convince her that she could go to Marshall’s and buy a set of sheets for less than $25. She has to do her “own thing.” She will be a taking a much cheaper nap from now on. And she can surely call her linens custom fitted.
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The Chadwick Papers: Volume 1 Issue 1
I’ve been a writer since the day I started speaking. Yes, even before I could write I was painting pictures of things that were happening all around me, and to me, and to others. Things that I found extraordinary and that other may have not even noticed. Most of the time what I marvel in is the stuff of everyday life. Today, I begin The Chadwick Papers (thank you, Mr. Dickens, and thank you Mr. Christy for naming these adventures and sometimes misadventures) which I hope will keep you amused at times, thinking at times, and realizing that we are all in a “story” together.
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….