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[Travis Stewart]

Hey, rats!

TWO WEEKS LEFT TO SEE:
"A rowdy, raucous, profane cartoon of a show with the blessed ring of truth
simmering just beneath the surface."  -- NYTheatre.com

"More fun than a Jerry Springer marathon. . .a grab bag of sharp
socio-political musings and chicken-fried melodies, with Coors Lite
references to boot." -- TheaterMania.com

Danse Macabre Theatrics & Horse Trade Theater Group Present: 
Trav S.D.'s
HOUSE OF TRASH
A Cosmically Comic White Trash Musical 
Book, Music & Lyrics by TRAV S.D. 
Musical Direction by ADAM SWIDERSKI 
Designed & Directed by FRANK CWIKLIK 
Produced by FRANK CWIKLIK & MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG 
At the Red Room, 85 East 4th Street
JULY 12th Through AUGUST 3rd 
FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS
10:30PM 
SUNDAYS
8:00PM 
Adults $15
$10 Students/Seniors 


With 8 musical numbers ranging from Vaudevillian to Country & Western to
tender ballads, "House of Trash" is a sinister, darkly comic cornpone
musical extravaganza featuring original songs and Vaudevillian lunacy.
Thought-provoking, funny, disturbing, alarming and moving -"House of Trash"
both explores and destroys every cliche you've ever heard about rural
Americana . . . deftly satirizing and sympathetically humanizing the kind of
people most New Yorkers would run screaming from. 

Featuring 
THE MAGGOT FAMILY RAMBLERS
Peter Herman, Guitar / Bernie Li, Guitar / Greg Solomon, Bass
Jaime Boyaca, Brian Biar: Drums

STARRING: Jonatha Bates, Dan Maccarone, Josh Mertz, Roger Nasser, Joe Popp,
Michele Schlossberg, Moira Stone & Adam Swiderski. And introducing Claude,
the Gorilla
Directed by Frank Cwiklik, hailed by The Village Voice, NYTheatre.com & Back
Stage as one of the most important young directors on the NYC theatre scene.
DMTheatrics recently won a 2002 Outstanding Production award from OOBR, for
their stage adaptation of "The Stranger" a 1946 film by Orson Welles.

Critic, playwright and performer, Trav S.D. is the author of some 30 plays,
500 songs and 1,500 embarrassing episodes. His plays and solo pieces have
been performed at Spa, The Bowery Ballroom, HERE, The Present Company
Theatorium, Surf Reality, Collective Unconscious, Todo Con Nada, The St.
Marks Theater. He has been M.C. and producer of the American Vaudeville
Theatre since 1996; his book on the history of Vaudeville will be published
by Faber & Faber in 2004. His freelance writings have been published in
American Theatre, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Reason, and Back
Stage. His next production, "Sea of Love," will be presented in Soho Think
Tank's Ice Factory Festival July 31-August 3, 2002. "House of Trash" was
published in "Plays and Playwrights 2001" by The New York Theatre
Experience. Four monologues from "House of Trash" have been selected for
publication in "The Best Men's Monologues of 2001" by Smith & Krauss, which
be published in fall 2002.