The Boston Globe Review
February 14, 2008
Laurel Casey revels as a provocateur.
Even though Casey, 49, has been performing for 25 years, nobody can come up with a good description of her act. Rope-thin in a floor-length black dress and matching gloves, she “wraps a song around the listener like a silk sheet,” as one reviewer said. Yet she’s just as likely to skewer anybody who happens to be sitting in the same zip code. Read more
NY Times explains Cabaret
February 10, 2008
Barry Singer explains that Cabaret in Weimar-era Berlin was everything that New York isn’t.
Attention Chinese Restaurants!
February 10, 2008
It has been a couple of months since my performance of Vermont Folk Music. As you know, I reinterpreted such songs as Blowin In The Wind in an effort to reveal the Far Eastern roots that have for so long been overlooked by my fellow Vermonters. I feel a deep connection to this music and look forward to contacting every Chinese restaurant in the D.C. area this coming month so that I can continue to be an Ambassador of a new Vermont product: Maple Syrup laced with soy sauce.
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
