Starting September 14, Chicks and Giggles will be twice a week. In addition to Tuesdays downtown at Mo Pitkin’s at 8PM, there will be also be a show in Midtown at The Time Out New York Lounge on 50th Street. If you work or live near Hell’s Kitchen, check out Chicks and Giggles’ Hell Angels Fridays at 10PM.
My college roommate and close buddy Ginger O’Neill is currently in Niger volunteering for the Peace Corps. She sent me this picture of her host sister, Rahila, with a note about the 2007 EstroGenius Festival and her portion of it called “Voices of Africa.” Be like a bra and support these girls!
EstroGenius 2007 – Voices of Africa
Benefit for Young Girls Scholarship Fund
This year, the festival will launch an exciting new program VOICES OF AFRICA (VOA),
a collaboration with Peace Corps Niger. Ginger O’Neill, a former EstroGenius volunteer, is currently serving a two-year appointment in Birni N’Gaoure, Niger about two hours from the country’s capital, Niamey.
She teaches songwriting as well as reading and writing to girls in her village. She has encouraged them to express themselves through music, poetry and monologues, which she has translated into English. These pieces will be performed by NYC teenage girls as part of the EstroGenius Festival this fall. The money raised from these performances will benefit the Peace Corps Partnership Program.
Directed By: Atonia Pettiford
Assistant Director: Linda Strobert
Technical Advisor: Bill Eisele
Production Assistant: Michael Strobert
Featuring: Jane Cantuna, Mark Christopher, Mikala Duke, Danielle Falls, Marc Gauthier, Hollie Graze, Louise Harris, Christopher Holland, Chesevah King, Ariel Miles, Ernestine Njieha, John Reese, Mariela Reyes, Bernice Rogers, Atalya Slater, Angelina Stokes, Kyle Williams & Mayra Zarate.
Vocalist: Nzingha Nkhrumah
Drums: Arthur Toombs & Brandon Armstead
Dancer: Yolanda Walters
Friday, Sept 28 at 6pm
Saturday, Sept 29 at 2:30 and 4:30pm
Advance tix for 2:30pm at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/199481
Advance tix for 4:30pm at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/199491
Chicks and Giggles performer Erin Hall will be in Williamsburg: The Musical which is part of the New York Fringe Festival.
Williamsburg! The Musical is a hilarious pop/rock parody of
Brooklyn’s over-hyped hipster ‘hood. A suicidal Trust-Funder
encounters a disenchanted Hasidic Jew in the shadow of the
Williamsburg Bridge. On their potholed road to love, they battle a
greedy real estate agent whose diabolical plan to overtake the
neighborhood spawns an army of zombie-like hipsters. Will the unlikely
heroes of Williamsburg band together to save the sub-borough? Or will
gentrification reign? With songs like “One Stop (To Excitement),”
“Peter Luger Lullaby,” and “Million Dollar Crackhouse,” this timely
Roast of the Burg juxtaposes Missed Connections and “Hipstory Lessons”
to comically exploit the cultural mish-mash of “the coolest
neighborhood in America.”
Created by Nicola Barber, Will Brumley, Brooke Fox, and Kurt
Gellersted
Music by Kurt Gellersted & Brooke Fox
Lyrics by Brooke Fox
Directed & Choreographed by Deborah Wolfson
Showtimes are as follows:
Saturday, August 11th, 9:30pm
Sunday, August 12th, 12 noon
Monday, August 13th, 5:30pm
Sunday, August 19th, 4:45pm
Friday, August 24th, 9:45pm
$15 tickets are available by going to this site:
www.williamsburgthemusical.com/tickets.html
Performance Venue: The Village Theater, 158 Bleecker (at Thompson)
A,B,C, D, E, F, V to West 4th