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At West Of Lenin, A One-Night Vaudeville Show ‘Seattle: B-Sides & Rarities’

Enjoy a one-night-only cabaret at West Of Lenin next Monday, August 5th, at 7:30p.  ‘Seattle: B-Sides & Rarities’ promises to fill the ‘loud and obnoxious’ vacuum left by the absence of the Blue Angels at Seafair.  Producers Jim Jewell, Paul Shipp and Joe Zavadill want to cap off a weekend of hydros, pirates and clowns with theater, music, poetry and stories that celebrate our beloved passive-aggressive, self-satisfied, faux-hippy, civic-development-stallin’, traffic nightmare-creatin’, built on its own ashes city!

The dark and bluesy ‘B-sides’ brings together new blood and favorite performers to expose (then inappropriately fondle,) the dark underbelly of Seattle, and its bizarre, mid-summer celebration of aquatic proximity.  The show will feature:

  • short plays by Jim Jewell, Dan Tarker, and Rod Tipton
  • poetry by Paul Mullin
  • musical madness from John McKenna
  • storytelling by Jennifer Jasper

…and more!  As Producer Jewell explained, “I like to describe ‘B-sides’ as a one-night, one-stop vaudeville tour.  We are constantly recruiting new artists, and the artist line-up is always subject to change…at least until curtain.”

Supported by 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theater Festival, tickets for ‘Seattle: B-Sides & Rarities’ cost $15 on-line or $18 at the door, and can be purchased through Brown Paper Tickets.  More information can be found on the Facebook events page.