After the success of last year’s “Sin Show” — the #1 top-selling show in the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival — SpeakeasyDC is back with another sure-fire hit. Come on down to this storytelling game show. Be part of contestants row and win prizes for guessing the correct ending in Cliffhangers, choosing sides in Catapult, finding the lie in Cover Up and more. In signature SpeakeasyDC style, all stories are true, gripping, and hilarious. Hear stories about spelling bees, murder, family secrets, bad roommates, and stolen cats. John Kevin Boggs stars as our host, Rob Parker and B. Stanely (ED of DC Arts Center) will play the role of our beloved. announcer, Todd Toddy. Directed by Amy Saidman (who directed such Fringe hits as “The Sin Show” and “Revenge of the Cat-Headed Baby”, and performed in “Chocolate Jesus”. Showcase Showdown chosen as one of the Washington Post’s best picks of the Fringe Fest. Read review in Washington City Paper.
Only four shows:
Friday, July 9
Saturday, July 10
Thursday, July 15
Friday, July 16
All shows start at 8pm, doors open at 7:30p at the US Navy Memorial – 701 Pennsylvania Ave. Next to Archives/Navy Memorial Green/Yellow line. Tickets go on sale on June 21. $15 at capfringe.org. Last year we sold out fast, so get your tickets early. More info at speakeasydc.org.
Click here for Social Media/Press Release with video, photos, and info
STARRING:
B. Stanley considers himself the man to fill the gap when necessary. He has been the director of and acted with the experimental group, Theatre Du Jour since 1982. He directs the works of several performance poets including Quique Aviles and Silvana Straw, acts in other’s performances when he can and is also currently the Director of the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan.
Bomani Darel Armah is a poet, songwriter, producer, performer and educator. Born in Washington D.C. and raised in the metropolitan area, Bomani uses his life experiences, mixed with his musical and poetic skills, to paint lyrical pictures of life as he sees it and the future as he envisions it. He was an English major with a concentration in poetry at the University of Maryland College Park and as a self-taught musician and producer is quickly making a name for himself in the national music scene. As he so aptly puts it “I’m not a rapper, I’m a poet with a hip-hop style”.
 |
Christylez Bacon (pronounced: chris-styles) is a GRAMMY
Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist
from Southeast, Washington, DC. As a performer, Christylez
multi-tasks between various instruments such as the West
African djembe drum, acoustic guitar, and the human beat-box
(oral percussion), all while continuing the oral
tradition of storytelling through his lyrics. |
 |
Regie Cabico won the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and is a 3-time National Poetry Slam Finalist. He has appeared on two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and his work appears in over 30 anthologies. BUST magazine name him in the 100 Men We Love. The Kenyon Review most recently named Cabico the “Lady Gaga of poetry”. |
 |
After working collaboratively as a writer, teacher, & improviser, Stephanie Garibaldi’s thrilled to be back in the game, unleashing her cutthroat competitive spirit at last on unsuspecting DC opponents. Whatever you do, do NOT challenge her to ping-pong, sudoku, or Name That Tune–she will school you as only SpeakeasyDC’s Educational Director can. |
 |
Cindy Kane is a writer and aspiring housewife who blogs at Bad Mommy Moments. She once had big dreams of standing next to Bob Barker and reminding the audience to control the pet population. But thanks to a $1 bidder from New Jersey, she never made it past Contestants’ Row. |
 |
Mike Kane is a marginally successful television writer and failed blogger. His favorite games include “Plnko,” “Switcheroo,” and “$uper $aver.” His actual retail price: $3.15, and all of this can be yours if… the Price is Right.
|
 |
Christopher Love used to feign illness in elementary school so that he could stay home to watch The Price is Right. He now performs in front of a captive audience of elementary school students every day as their math teacher. Within the last year, he has been on a date with a former contestant who later became legal counsel for TPIR. |
 |
Sheldon Scott broke down walls when he became one of “Barker’s Beauties”! At 5′10, 165lbs, he became one of the first “full-size” daytime TV game show models! After unsavory pictures of Scott turned up on the internet, he was forced into retirement and moved to Washington DC where he started a PAC for retired Daytime TV and Hand & Foot models! He is currently general manager of one of DC’s best restaurants — Marvin Bistro & Bar. Featured artist on CapFringe site.
|
 |
Full time dreamer. Part time superhero. Pro-Mohawk. Jessica Solomon is reclaiming the power of the Booty one performance at a time with The Saartjie Project crew (Google them!). She’s super excited and nostalgic about “The Price is Right” because it was the only TV show she watched with her Granny…until they discovered Jerry Springer. Featured artist on the CapFringe site. |
What’s the next item up for bid? Narrative.
