Celebrating 8 years of unparalleled success, playing to packed houses all over New York City, Powella Productions and the LionHearted Players present the 2009 season finale of their comedy variety show “The Kong Show: Thanks A Lot!” on Monday, November 23rd at 7pm, NOW AT A NEW LOCATION! The Grand Theater at the Producers Club, located at 358 West 44th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenue). Join Powell Leonard as your host Chuck E. Baby (channeling a hilarious impersonation of a Chuck Barris-like Gong Show TV host character) for the season finale of the vaudeville-style variety show “The Kong Show: Thanks A Lot!”
The evening is a veritable feast, chock-full of laughs served up by a slew of hip vaudeville and variety acts; featuring the sketch comedy of the LionHearted Players; the stand up comedy magic of Irish Dave Cremin; the comedy duo the Knuckleheads;
Tickets on sale at door day of the show
$15 regular admission / $12 students & seniors.
Advance Tickets: $12 Regular, $7.50 Students & Seniors
Purchase Tickets online at: http://thanksalot.eventbrite.com
Contact Powella Productions:
E-mail: LionHeartedPlayers@
www.LionHeartedPlayers.com
THE LIONHEARTED PLAYERS are an Astoria, Queens-based comedy troupe that began as an actor’s workshop in the Lower East Side’s Planet One Café in 2001. Since then, producers (and spouses) Powell Leonard and Miss Ella have produced variety, music, and comedy shows featuring some of New York's most talented singers and comedians. Powella Productions' The LionHearted Players have performed to packed houses all over New York City including Don't Tell Mama's, Danny's Skylight, the Broadway Comedy Club, the Undercroft Performance Space, the Sage Theater, and now at the Producers Club. “The Kong Show: Thanks A Lot!“ is their latest vaudeville –style comedy variety show.
Take a look at our talented performers!
INTRODUCING THE SKETCH COMEDY TROUPE THE LIONHEARTED PLAYERS:
VINNY ANAND is currently filming the movie "Dancing Scared" which is being shot in NYC. Tony Meredith signed on as the executive producer and the multi-talented Vinny Anand is playing not one, but two different roles in the movie!
LIZZIE BELL is a student of the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre. You can also see her perform with the all-female improv team, Dirt In The Skirt. Recent theatre credits include “The Empty Chair,” “Amadeus,”
RUSSELL BRADLEY BOOKERT has starred in such Off-Off Broadway productions as “The Hardships of Theatre Variety Show” (The Kraine Theatre), “The Floor” (Shetler Studios), and the independent film “Invocations”
ANDREW CORDLE has appeared throughout the United States, Europe and South America as a chamber musician and orchestral performer. As an actor Mr. Cordle has performed with the Senior Theatre Acting Repertory and this season the LionHearted Players have welcomed him to the company in a premier performance of his own work “Bon Voyage and Have a Nice Day” and as Jake in “The Bermuda Triangle of Love.”
BRIDGET DUNN has a B.A. Theatre Performance from Purdue University. Favorite roles include: Mrs. Walker in “The Who’s Tommy,” Claire De Lune in “On the Town,” Audrey in “Little Shop of Horrors,” Lydia Languish in “The Rivals,” Billie Dawn in “Born Yesterday,” Ruby “Dames at Sea” and many more. Most recently, she performed at The Attic Theatre in Jersey City in the Attic Junior series as Fanny in “Anonymous, Unknown and Grimm.” She would like to dedicate her performance to her amazing husband, Mark.
ERIK GRAHAM is a multi-talented actor and musician with a dynamic personality capable of a wide range of performances. His experience has been mostly in music as a live and studio musician playing guitar/bass, and as a recording engineer, producer/writer/
MICHAEL PICHARDO is of Dominican descent and is originally from the Lower East Side section of Downtown Manhattan. He studied theatre at Queensborough Community College where he earned his A.S. degree in Performing Arts. He can be seen in an upcoming independent feature film “The Beast Within” which is currently in pre-production and is at work on a second poetry album, which he aspires to complete this year.
CATHY SCHRAMM appeared with the LionHearted Players in her debut performance as a pill popping, hard drinking, chain smoking, cheerleader mom. Then, she was cast as the insane, Alice Osborne a.k.a. the Devil, in “I am the Devil.” She has once again been type cast and is now appearing in “What’s Your Problem?” as Carrie, just your average every day woman with acute bi-polar paranoid schizophrenia combined with violent psychotic homicidal tendencies!
ANN MARIE YOO holds a BS from Columbia University, and currently rocks out on her blue electric violin! Ann Marie holds numerous film credits, ranging from music videos to independent feature films to "30 Rock", and you can also find her credited on IMDb. Check out her work at facebook.com/
INTRODUCING OUR FEATURED PERFORMERS:
DAVE CREMIN puts a twisted spin on old tricks, combining stand-up with magic, illusion, and sleight of hand. Always striving for perfection, Dave polishes new material several nights a week as a Magical Bartender at Cronin and Phelan's Bar & Restaurant in Astoria, Queens. http://www.outofthisworldmagic.com
MINDY RAF has appeared regularly on VH1's Best Night Ever, and has contributed her comedy and voiceover work for WACB, The Daily Comedy Network, and Embraceyourgrace.com. Mindy also authored a widely read relationship column on College Humor.com that has been featured in The New Yorker and the New York Post.
http://www.MindyRaf.com
THE KNUCKLEHEADS. In November of 1999, a full-blown idiot named Michael Hannon approached another full-blown, yet closeted, idiot named Spence White about joining musical forces and becoming a more powerful supergroup comprised of two full-blown idiots. He spoke of a vision, carefully and painstakingly constructed, involving two guitars, harmonica, witty original songs, eclectic covers, improvisation, high energy, and the obligatory percussive egg, all converging to form the entertainment supernova that, today, we call The Knuckleheads. http://www.theknuckleheads.net
