( Posted on Friday, August 31, 2007 )

MAY 2010

Thursday, May 20, 7:15 PM!

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at Café Metropol
for a live reading of the play by William Ludel

“The Trials Of The Oscillating Marble Man”

Featuring Darius Dudley, Nike Doukas, Arye Gross, Michael Gross, Brent Keast, Lynn Milgrim and Peter Van Norden.

Marble Man

Inventor Benjamin Zwyckoff struggles with a huge company’s thieving entrepreneur who stole Zwyckoff’s brilliant creation – the oscillating sprinkler. The inventor’s romances, aspirations and dreams unfold in Bill Ludel’s delight of flashbacks, music and fantasy. One of the best plays the Yale Cabaret Hollywood has come across in years.

Directed by: Nicholas Hormann
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Admission is a suggested donation of $5
Save time and thank the hosting club by ordering from
the Metropol’s choice menu of food or drink.

The Café Metropol is at
923 E 3rd St
In the Downtown Los Angeles Artists District

For reservations call
310-499-4104


FEBRUARY 2010

Sunday, February 21, 4 PM

Please join Heritage Square and Yale Cabaret Hollywood
for a live reading of the experimental Interactive Television script called...

“NOIR - FACE THE MUSIC”

Noir - Face The Music

This one-time-only reading will be on Sunday, February 21, 4 PM in the Victorian Parlor of the Perry Mansion, Heritage Square. All proceeds will help fund LA’s unique living history Heritage Square Museum.

Admission is a requested donation of $10 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more.

For reservations, call 323-225-2700 ext. 223

NOIR - FACE THE MUSIC is a script commissioned from Ray Malus to create television program using the interactive infrastructure Cable TV companies are deploying for Advertising. This is a world premier. We especially encourage writers interested in television to participate in the discussion after the live reading.

About the script:

JANITOR FINDS DEAD BODY IN UNION STATION. . Why is Private Eye Buck Reilly nosing around the Mayor’s Office? Find out! Come to the Heritage Square Museum to hear the answer to this and many other questions.

Heritage Square is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.



NOVEMBER 2009

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7 PM!

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at Café Metropol
for a live reading of the play by Alex Maggio

“TOUCHDOWN JESUS”

Touchdown Jesus

In Oakhurst, Ohio, an eighty-foot statue of Jesus spreads his arms. The son of a local football coach dies in a tragic accident. His mega-church’s pastor, a friend of the family, offers to make a documentary about the boy’s life, but the young woman filmmaker who shoots the film uncovers secrets, and life gets a lot more complicated than football!

Directed by: Dani Roter
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Admission is a suggested donation of $10
which includes $5 toward food or drink at the club.
The Café Metropol is at
923 E 3rd St
In the Downtown Los Angeles Artists District

For reservations call
213-613-1537


If you are in New York City, catch our own Steve Mendillo in "Good Bobby."

Good Bobby


OCTOBER 2009

Two Yale Cabaret Hollywood Readings Have Legs!


Two plays read as part of Yale Cabaret Hollywood's 2008-2009 season are going on to greater things. "That Perfect Moment" By Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper with original songs by Sky Keegan will run in full production from Sunday, October 3 through November 8, 2009 at The NoHo Arts Center. See below for details.

Dyanne Asimow's play on ballet, now called "Les Attitudes," has a staged reading at The Lounge Theatre on Sunday, October 4, 2009 with the goal to move to full production. Details are also below here.

A big "Break a Leg" to both efforts!

In a addition to co-producing "Les Attitudes," YCH has two other projects in the works, "Touchdown Jesus" by Alex Maggio and an Interactive Mystery by Ray Malus. We are looking for more projects. If you have one in mind, please drop a line to info@YaleCabaretHollywood.com.

For tickets for "That Perfect Moment" go to www.plays411.net


JUNE 2009

Yale Drama Grads Organize and Direct Readers’ Theatre in LA’s Pershing Square Park

Sunday, June 28, 2009 5 p.m

City of Los Angeles
Department of Recreation and Parks
Pershing Square Outdoor Concert and Event Center
presents

READERS’ THEATRE* (see definition)


First Pershing Square
Photo: Ed Fuentes

The curtain rises on a new presentation area in the midst
of Pershing Square Park,
532 S Olive Street at 5th Street in Downtown Los Angeles.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:00PM.

The first Play-In-The-Park tops off the annual
FREE Neighbor Day Weekend Activities
at Pershing Square.

*Readers' Theatre is when an audience gets to imagine the scenery, costuming and special effects which no theatre company could ever afford. These directed actors work with no technical limitations at all.

Play-In-The-Park Readers' Theatre debuts
in Pershing Square Park
on June 28, 2009 at 5PM.

Organized by Walt Klappert of Yale Cabaret Hollywood.

We begin with the short delightful play…

“Mass Transit” by Evangeline Ordaz of
Downtown Los Angeles’s Theatre Group Company of Angels
directed by Julius Galacki
featuring Richard Azurdia, Julie Estrada Evans, Xavi Moreno, Nicole Ortega,
Monica Quintanilla and Armando Vasquez
It is hard enough to get the kids and wife in the car.
Forget about getting them where they are going.

Then…

W. Shay Hammond of TheSpyAnts brings us
“Doggonit,” a play by Jerry Pappas
directed by Addi Gaash
featuring Jennifer Etienne Eckert, Scott Krinsky and Mari Marks.
The animals you meet at this Veterinarian’s office
are not all brought in on a leash.

For better seating, bring your own lawn chair or blanket.
Let us know you are coming by calling 310-499-4104.

Come and Play in the Park! :-)




APRIL 2009

Yale Cabaret Hollywood And Bedlam Magazine
co-sponsor
A Play Reading About The Beat Generation

“Beat”
by Paavo Hall, Jon Howard and Walt Klappert
Directed by Steve Zuckerman

Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:00 PM
A Secret Meeting at the old Al’s Bar in the Los Angeles Arts District

Beat

Join our clandestine meeting for conspiratorial lore and poetry from the Beat Generation of the 1950's.

William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac get hassled by J. Edgar Buddha, the personification of post-war Amerika gone mad!

Featuring Cyrus Alexander, Robert Cicchini, Annika Dahlen, Charles Gideon Davis, Logan Fahey, Elizabeth Penn Payne, Peter Van Norden, and Todd Waring.

Part of YCH's ongoing development of the play, first read publicly September 2007.

Bedlam Magazine (Al’s Bar)
305 S. Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.

$10 suggested donation. Beer and wine available for purchase.

Reservations: 310-499-4104.


FEBRUARY 2009

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 4 PM!

Please join Heritage Square and Yale Cabaret Hollywood
for a live - and emotion-filled - reading of the one-act play of
“ATTITUDE X THREE”

Attitude X Three

The one-time-only reading will be Saturday, February 7, 4 PM in the Victorian Parlor of the Perry Mansion, Heritage Square. All proceeds will help fund LA’s unique living history Heritage Square Museum.

Admission is a requested donation of $15 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more.

For reservations, call 323-225-2700 ext. 223

ATTITUDE X THREE is a new play by Yale Playwright and Screenwriter Dyanne Asimow. This is a world premier reading especially adapted for the Victorian environment of Heritage Square.

About the play: As the 20th Century dawns…
Victoria, an eccentric, aging émigré ballerina…
Grace, a young, ambitious danseuse…
and Monsieur Serkiev, legendary choreographer,
once Victoria’s mentor and lover…
join in a picaresque roundelay of longing, loss, and illusion
set to the music of time.

Featuring: Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Emily Foxler, Natalie Freeman and Karen Tarleton

Directed by: Eric Scott Gould
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Heritage Square is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.


NOVEMBER 2008

Please join Yale Cabaret Hollywood
for a reading of JRR Tolkien’s

The Hobbit

adapted for stage by Markland Taylor

Saturday, November 15, 7:00 PM
La Crescenta Women’s Club

A benefit for the Crescenta Valley Arts Council

The Hobbit

Yale Cabaret Hollywood brings JRR Tolkien’s classic adventure fantasy about good against greed and evil — and the thrill of live theatre to the families of La Crescenta, courtesy of the Cresenta Valley Arts Council.

The Hobbit continues Yale Cabaret Hollywood's successful reading series, matching play with place...from its Mark Twain adaptation at Heritage Square to That Perfect Moment at Theatre West...creating memorable experiences for the audience and actors every time!

The Hobbit is a one-time-only, don't miss event!

"Far over Misty Mountains old,
once more The Hobbit will be told.
In La Crescenta like the Shire,
hear o’ Good and Evil and Dragon Fire!"

Directed by: Diane Roter

Featuring Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Chris De Carlo, Chris Desmond, Ava DuPree, Adam J. Smith, and John Waroff

Produced by: Walt Klappert

Also featured: Ukulele Bartt Sextet

Donation: $5

Saturday, November 15, 7:00 PM
La Crescenta Women's Club
4004 La Crescenta Avenue
Montrose, California

DIRECTIONS: I-210 North. Take Exit 17B La Crescenta Ave. Turn left. La Crescenta Women’s Club will be on your Left about 2 blocks south of the freeway exit.

There is ample free parking on the street.

The Women’s Club is also served by the Metro Bus Lines 90 and 91.

Women's Club Map

Reservations are not required, there are plenty of seats. You can leave a message for Yale Cabaret Hollywood at 310-499-4104 or reply to this email if you have questions or just want to let us know you are coming.

Yale Cabaret Hollywood
“The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Play Readings In Los Angeles.”



OCTOBER and NOVEMBER 2008

Yale Cabaret Hollywood invites you to...

True West Girl

Starring Barbara Bragg

Directed by Bruce Katzman

FRIDAY, Oct 24
Doors open 7:00PM
Performance 8:00PM

SUNDAY, Oct 26
Starving Artists' Night!
PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
Doors open 6:00PM
Performance 7:00PM

SUNDAY Nov 2
Doors open 6:00PM
Performance 7:00PM

TRUE WEST GIRL

Wyoming's untamed daughter, Barbara Bragg, spins theatrical magic
from the stories that won't leave her alone...
...from her father's ghost stories of the old West
to a sister who swallows stars...

— even Dick Cheney makes a guest appearance!

It's an exhilarating journey from gut-wrenching
to darkly funny to piercingly truthful...
...as the True West Girl wrestles with the angels and demons
howling in her soul like the prairie wind.

Produced by Robert Barnett

$10 suggested donation (at the door)
$10 food minimum

M-BAR & RESTAURANT
1253 N. Vine St., in Hollywood
(at Fountain, in the strip mall
on the southwest corner)

The M-Bar is located closest to Vine Street,
with an "M" on the awning over the door.

Parking is available in the lot and on the street.

RESERVATIONS highly recommended: 323-856-0036

The M-Bar: a hidden oasis of unpretentious cool...



Yale Cabaret Hollywood invites you to...
A Night of French Cabaret Songs
RETURN ENGAGEMENT! TWO NIGHTS ONLY!

SATURDAY, Oct 4
Doors open 7:00
Performance 8:00

SUNDAY, Oct 5
Doors open 6:00
Performance 7:00


FRENCH SONGS

Grab your beret and join us for a night of Gallic cabaret songs —
almost all sung in English for the first time!

Performers: Gregory Franklin, Jill Marie Burke, Matthew Solari
Musical director: Gary Mattison
Host and translator: Peter Mellencamp

Find out why audiences called A Night of French Cabaret Songs…
“Riveting…”
“Funny, poignant and remarkable…”
“I found myself jolted and elated and devastated within a single song…”
“An incredible journey.”

These fresh, new translations are filled with raucous laughter...
bittersweet tales of love lost and love regained...
and riotous assaults on the biggest sin of all: conventionality.

Vive la difference!

$10 suggested donation (at the door)
$10 food minimum

Produced by Robert Barnett

M-BAR & RESTAURANT
1253 N. Vine St., in Hollywood
(at Fountain, in the strip mall
on the southwest corner)

The M-Bar is located closest to Vine Street,
with an "M" on the awning over the door.
Parking is available in the lot and on the street.

RESERVATIONS highly recommended: 323-856-0036

The M-Bar: a hidden oasis of unpretentious cool...



SEPTEMBER 2008

Sunday, September 14, 7 PM
FREE!

“THAT PERFECT MOMENT” at THEATRE WEST

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood!
For a free reading of a funny and touching two-act comedy
By Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper
with original songs by Sky Keegan

THAT PERFECT MOMENT

THEATRE WEST
3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles

For reservations, call 310-499-4104.

THAT PERFECT MOMENT is about four guys who had one big “perfect” moment with their rock and roll band in the ‘60s. Fast forward "half a lifetime" later when a record label offers them a chance of a comeback. Comedy, chaos and matrimonial mayhem ensue.

Directed by: Richard Basch
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Featuring in speaking order Mary Linda Phillips, John Perry,
Paul Ainsley, Steve Mendillo, Bruce Katzman and Roger Cruz.

Theatre West is located between Barham and Lankershim, just down the block from Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Free parking across the street.
This is a don't miss, one-time-only event, and as thanks for your generosity in the past, this reading is absolutely free. No donations are requested this time.

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