Horse Trade Theater Group Presents JON BENET RAMSEY: MURDER MYSTERY THEATRE

Beaches 2 is a sketch comedy group, and they have a monthly comedy show! This month, they will present a one-act play. Featuring the famed lesbian security guard turned poet, Molly Dykeman! The comedy show, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group and Beaches 2, will play at Under St Marks Theater (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and A) Thursday, April 14th @ 10:30pm. Tickets ($5) are available at the door. They serve beer!

On December 26th, 1996, Jon Benét Ramsey was murdered by an unknown person or persons. 15 years later, her case remains one of the most horrifying and unsettling unsolved murders in our country's history. And now it's a brand new comedy musical! Featuring toe-tappingly terrifying songs, JONBENET RAMSEY: MURDER MYSTERY THEATRE is sure to the most talked about Off-Off-Off Broadway production in days! Beaches 2: Sketch Comedy Group has vowed to do what the Colorado police department, FBI, Government, CIA, and CSI: Miami all failed to do: solve this case. Beaches 2 will bring the killer to justice and bring Jon Benet back to life. A humorous blend of the Bad Seed, Lolita, Home Alone, and Apocalypse Now- you won't want to miss this! Don't tell your friends the surprise ending!

Starring:
Mary Crosbie as Patsy Ramsey
Bob McSmith as Jon Ramsey
Tobly McSmith as Timmy Benét Ramsey
Katrin Hier as Everybody Else
And Jon Benét Ramsey as herself.

Every second Thursday of the month, Beaches 2 will bring you a brand new hour-long sketch comedy show! Each month they choose a theme and write thousands of jokes on that topic. Past topics include farts, the holidays, John Travolta, getting dumped, and pageants. Beaches 2: sketch comedy for best friends.

Molly Equality Dykeman aka Andrea Alton (performer/writer/poetess) has performed all over New York including such places as Comix, The PIT, Dixon Place, UCB, The Knitting Factory & Arlene's Grocery. She brought down the house at last years The Miss Fag Hag Pageant at Comix (a benefit for The Harvey Milk School) and Murray's Hill Miss Lez Pageant. She's also performed at the Chicago, Toronto, DC & San Francisco Sketch Comedy Festivals. www.mollyequalitydykeman.com and www.andreaalton.com

MEET BEACHES 2:

Mary Crosbie is from Canada. She loves cats more than some people. She has done many commercials, one time with Martin Scorsese, another time with Danica Patrick. She has been doing comedy for many years. She does a cable access show in Manhattan called "the Moe and Mary Show" every Friday at 6. Mary loves life!

Bob and Tobly McSmith are two disease-carrying monkeys that should probably be quarantined. Formerly going by the name Skrit Steak and The English Mufkins they have been nominated for a cornucopia of honors including: Class Favorite (Tobly, 5th Grade), Class Masturbator (Bob, 1st-12th Grade), and most recently: Most Likely to Be Arrested on a Playground. Their debut album Prostitute Sauce was called "The deranged ramblings of mental patients"- Hussie Skunk Radio and "Not as bad as it could have been"- Tobly's Mom. Bob and Tobly wrote and directed two "successful" off-Broadway "plays" based on TV's Saved by the Bell (BAYSIDE! THE UNMUSICAL! And BAYSIDE 2! ELECTRIC SCREECHIO!), which Michael Musto called "The Best Off Broadway Production of Saved By The Bell". They are the founders of the First Annual (and only) Phuck the Phringe Phestival, and do not like to be touched. Bob and Tobly have one cat that has been dead for two years and are webmasters of the rarely updated and highly offensive: prettyponyparty.com.

Tanya O'Debra is an art-doer. Her play Radio Star was nominated for three New York Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Full Length Script, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Original Music. Radio Star ran at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Red Room, Ars Nova, and is published by Original Works. Miss O'Debra is the reigning Miss Fag Hag 2010. Formerly of comedic twin sister act, The O'Debra Twins, Miss O'Debra was the co-host of the popular open mic SHOW AND TELL at The Bowery Poetry Club for five years. Miss O'Debra was the co-writer, co-director, and a cast member of Fuck You or Dead Pee-holes; an American Tale in 13 Acts, which won the top award at Fringe NYC. She plays Patrice O'Debra in Straight Up Vampire, a perennial favorite at Joe's Pub. Creep on her at www.tanyaodebra.com "There can be no doubting O'Debra's talent: she's got a vocal arsenal that puts Saturday Night Live's Kristin Wiig to shame." - NY Press

Ben Lerman is the composer for Beaches 2! If the Flight of the Conchords and Stephen Lynch had a gay lovechild, it would be NYC's ukulele comedian Ben Lerman. Ben plays his solo comedy concert of original, twisted songs all over the country. He was recently nominated for an ECNY Award for Best Musical Comedy Act. You can hear him regularly on the Keith and the Girl podcast and on the Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius Radio. Please look at him and listen to him at benlerman.net. "Hilarious... Lerman is an extremely talented singer-songwriter." --Fringe Guru, Edinburgh

Horse Trade Theater Group is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

For more information, visit online at www.beaches2.com or www.horseTRADE.info.

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