Hensley & Montiel Bring their Vaudeville Act to Santa Monica, Closes 12/19

Gramps' Trunks, LLC in Association with The Promenade Playhouse present AIN'T WE GOT FUN!, written by Ben Hensley and Michael Montiel and directed by Lindsay Martin. AIN'T WE GOT FUN! will open on Saturday, November 20 at 3:00 pm and continue every Saturday and Sunday until December 19 at The Promenade Playhouse, 1404 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica, CA.

AIN'T WE GOT FUN! is an act of COLOR in the Vaudeville Genre. Featuring 15 comedic songs and skits from the turn of the century, AIN'T WE GOT FUN! takes audiences back to a time of simpler theatricality when a rubber chicken was really, REALLY funny. It is a pastiche of forgotten (yet remembered) Vaudeville skits and comedy songs featuring Pack Up Your Troubles, Gallagher and Shean, When You're Smiling, Are You From Dixie?, Ma, He's Makin' Eyes At Me, And Her Mother Comes Too, Goodbye My Lady Love, and of course Ain't We Got Fun!.

Hensley & Montiel premiered their first production AIN'T WE GOT FUN! at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June and have subsequently been presented by various presenters throughout southern California including The Theatre Asylum in Hollywood, The Mark Blankenship Ballet Company at the Historic Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles as well as DiPiazza's Restaurant and Lounge in Long Beach.

ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM

BEN HENSLEY (Writer/Producer/Actor) has worked in regional theatres from Memphis to Santa Fe to Alaska. While a Resident Company Member of Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, Ben enjoyed performing in Closer (Dirty Dr. Larry), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Steve), The Dinner Party (Albert), and Hair (Claude) for which Ben was nominated for a Memphis Theatre Award for Best Actor. Los Angeles credits include Downey CLO's productions of Forum (Hero), Good News (Bobby) and Fiddler on the Roof (Motel). Ben was also seen as Timothy John in the West Coast Premiere of Splendora at Celebration Theatre as well as Thomas Jefferson in the critically lauded production of 1776 at Actors Co-Op. Film/T.V. - On Bloody Sunday (Warner Bros), Fixing Rhonda, and Passions (NBC) as well as many commercials.

MICHAEL MONTIEL (Writer/Actor/Production Designer) has been performing throughout Southern California since he was very young. Favorite credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour), Pippin (Pippin), Forum (Hero), and Beauty and the Beast (Lefou). Michael regularly performs with the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Film/T.V. - Community (NBC), Zeke and Luther (DisneyXD), Glee (Fox), and Love and Secrets (Limestreet Ent.)

LINDSAY MARTIN (Choreographer/Director) Lindsay received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cal State Fullerton in 2004. Since then she has been choreographing and performing professionally throughout southern California. Choreography credits include Urinetown, (Garland Nomination) Once on this Island, Sona Tera Roman Hess, Annie Get your Gun, Company, Nine, Footloose, Music Man, Once Upon a Mattress and A Grand Night for Singing. She also choreographed a musical tribute to the band Journey for the OC Pavilion in 2008. Lindsay teaches dance at the Performing Arts Studio West in Inglewood.

AIN'T WE GOT FUN! will open on Saturday November 20, 2010 and perform until December 19, 2010. Performances for AIN'T WE GOT FUN! are Saturdays and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 and the show is appropriate for ALL AGES. The running time is 45 minutes and the show is performed without an intermission. For tickets, please visit www.brownpapertickets.com and search "AIN'T WE GOT FUN!".

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