Andrew Martin's AN APPETIZING YARN Comes to The Duplex, 11/1

By: Oct. 09, 2015
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Following a triumphant world premiere in the 2015 UNFringed Festival, at the Secret Theatre in Long Island City (where it placed second for Audience Favorite), award-winning writer/entertainer/radio personality Andrew Martin brings his critically-acclaimed original one-man play, AN APPETIZING YARN, to the world-famous Duplex Cabaret Theater, 61 Christopher Street (at the crest of 7th Avenue South and West 4th Street) in the heart of Greenwich Village, on Sunday, November 1st, at 6:30 PM.

A ninety-minute autobiographical piece, AN APPETIZING YARN encompasses Mr. Martin's family history and his journey through a most-unusual childhood and adolescence in the Central Queens enclave of Rego Park. In telling his truth through humor, he touches upon such subjects as having a manor-born mother and a father from the other side of the tracks, an event of sexual molestation on a Boy Scout hike, striking back physically after being bullied, coming to terms with his homosexuality while attending theater camp on Long Island, his discovery of the Rocky Horror culture as a teenager, becoming a drag artist and fixture on the Andy Warhol scene for a time, and a brief mention of his affair with a renowned theater composer.

In addition, the play focuses on Mr. Martin's lifelong love of knitting and needlecrafting. As such, he commences finishing a knitted woolen winter hat right before the audience's eyes as the narrative unfolds, which is subsequently raffled off for one fortunate spectator to take home as a door prize. The action also includes a question-and-answer period with the audience.

Andrew Martin was born in New York City on an outrageously hot day in 1968, along with his twin sister. With a family steeped in entertainment circles, it was inevitable that he would follow a career into theater. After beginning study at age nine, his first professional engagement was as a founding member of the internationally-acclaimed TADA! Youth Theater in 1984. He went on to featured roles in plays and musicals at Theater for the New City, the Irish Arts Center, Grove Street Playhouse and Greenwich House besides film and television, and maintains the distinction of being the only thespian in New York history to work consistently for thirty-eight years without acquiring so much as one union affiliation. He received the 2010 PCTF Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor as the title role in "Green! The Musical!" presented by the Planet Connections Theater Festivity at the Gene Frankel Theater, and several awards as Outstanding Writer/Entertainer for the Spotlight-On Festival, as part of the sketch comedy troupe The Mistake between 2004-07. In 1998 he was a finalist for the New York's Funniest Gay Man competition at StandUpNY, and in 1994 received a MAC Award nomination for Outstanding Male Musical/Comedy, as well as being named Personality Of The Year by WBAI-FM radio. His credits as an entertainment journalist and radio personality are endless, and his first book, "All For The Best: How Godspell Transferred From Stage To Screen," was published in November of 2011.

AN APPETIZING YARN is directed by Dennis Gleason, and technical direction is provided by Lisa Moss.

Tickets my be purchased online at www.purplepass.com/#82211/The_Duplex-Andrew_Martin_in_An_Appetizing_Yarn-The_Duplex_Cabaret_Theatre-November-01-2015.html for $18 plus a small service fee. Tickets may also be purchased at the door for a flat fee of $20. A two-drink minimum is required of all attendees. Persons under the age of twenty-one will not be seated.



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