Horse Trade Theater Group Presents THE BEACHES 2 THAT STOLE CHRISTMAS, 12/12

Beaches 2 will steal your hearts (and souls) with their holiday themed sketch comedy show! God help us, every one. Featuring musical guest, Reggie Watts! 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) Sunday, December 12th @ 7pm. Tickets ($5) are available at the door. They serve beer!

Reggie Watts, hilarious, brilliant, unpredictable - is a staple of the international performance scene. Reggie's improvised musical sets are created on-the-spot using only his formidable voice and a looping machine. No two songs are ever the same. As a solo performer, Reggie has played sold-out runs at Conan O'Brien's Legally Prohibited from Appearing on Television Tour, Fusebox, SXSW, Bonnaroo, Soho Theatre (London), Brian Eno's Luminous Festival at the Sydney Opera House, Montreal Comedy Festival, Vancouver Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, Sydney Festival, and cities throughout the world. Reggie also received the ECNY Award (2009) and Andy Kaufmann Award (2006) for his brand of innovative stand-up performance. On screen, Reggie has appeared on Conan, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, HBO's The Yes Men Save The World, Comedy Central's Michael and Michael Have Issues, UK's "Funny Or Die", and the PBS' revamped Electric Company. "Sharp, wry and elusive ... Reggie moves seamlessly from skits to songs to off-kilter stand-up, while talking in a subway train full of accents." - New York Times
MEET BEACHES 2:

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, a competition judged by John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Musto, Leslie Jordan, and a room full of rabid gays. Her Miss Fag Hag video won the Skinny Girl Margarita Online Video Challenge, presented by Bethenny Frankel. 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

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. 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. Bob and Tobly have one cat that has been dead for two years, wrote and directed two "successful" off-Broadway "plays" based on TV's Saved by the Bell, and are webmasters of the rarely updated and highly offensive: prettyponyparty.com.

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. 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.

 

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