Banners & Cranks presents The Singing Picture Show July 20 & 21 at 8:00 at The Jalopy Theatre, 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn featuring new works by a gaggle of cantastoria artists and musicians.
Performing each night will be The Dolly Wagglers combining polkas and barnstompers with tales of pre-post-consumer society;
New York’s very own Great Small Works and Circus Amok’s fabulous Jennifer Miller;
from Philadelphia/Providence, Ramshackle Enterprises featuring the wry work of Beth Nixon;
Chicago’s Meredith Miller presenting six pieces that exploit “the disturbing subtexts in jazz standards”;
Theater Oobleck with new selections from its 7-year project Baudelaire in a Box;
Vermont’s Clare Dolan premiering a brand new cantastoria; and Meredith Holch with a gripping piece of labor history in sassy rhyming couplets; and Anna Roberts-Gevalt with her sewn and stitched crankies!
Each night will feature music including the B&C All-Star Orkestar with special guest star appearances by Jalopy’s own Whiskey Spitters.
Admission is $10.
I sure wish I could join you – sounds like a LOT of fun! Hope you have great weather.