How To Talk Club Owners During a Recession
July 23, 2008
Remind them that entertainment was the only business besides bootlegging that continued to thrive during the Great Depression. The worse things get, the more people want to drink and forget their troubles. Instead of cutting entertainment, club owners should consider replacing fresh vegetables with canned peas, corn and carrots. Customers can obtain fresh garden greenery from other sources, such as their neighbor’s garden. Read more
Temporarily Out Of Order
March 23, 2008
I am writing lately and my microphone and amplifier are collecting dust in the mud room. I really miss entertaining you guys, but I can’t go back to singing in restaurants and bars and cabarets. My work belongs in a theater. My one woman show “This Can’t Be Happening” will be ready this summer, as will my Doris Duke performance piece. It takes time to regroup when you’ve gone way off track and it feels like absolutely nothing is happening, that you are locked in, trapped by your past, your resume, your pronouncements, your reputation. It appears that I am more of a misfit than you thought.
Comic Lectures
February 1, 2008
Laurel creates an hour long comic monologue in the form of a lecture from the information. She will take on a persona, such as Dr. L.H. Casey, Prof. Casey, Reverend Casey, L.H. Casey PHD- a persona that lends itself to the person or company being “roasted.” The persona is based on a nemesis of the person or organization. This nemesis can be a quality of personality, a real personality, or a representation of a certain personality or group that irks the person or organization being “roasted” Read more
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