Hosted by Mara Wilson (What Are You Afraid Of?) and Jenny Jaffe (ForeverDog Productions, Project UROK), SEND IN THE CLOWNS comes to 54 Below tonight, July 21st. Doors at 5:15 p.m.; show at 7 p.m.
Featuring Sharron Paul (Cheap Date Comedy, Lady Parts Justice), Bastard Keith (NYC burlesque star), Anna Rose Roisman (UCB, The PIT, Groundlings) and sketch group Fantasy Grandma (New York Comedy Festival, Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival).
Mara Wilson and Jenny Jaffe know the secret: most comedians love musical theater and would do anything to be in it. Come see comics talk about and take on their favorite Broadway roles in an evening lovefest between musical theater and comedy.
The concert takes place at 54 Below - 254 W. 54th St. New York NY. Tickets range from $25-$60 in advance - ticket link - Facebook event.
Mara Wilson is best known for her childhood roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda. Now she plays The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home on Welcome to Night Vale, and hosts her show about fears and anxieties, What Are You Afraid Of?, at Union Hall. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney's, Reductress, Cracked, The Toast, and she is currently at work on her first book, available through Penguin in 2016. www.marawilsonwritesstuff.com | @MaraWritesStuff on Twitter
Jenny Jaffe is a New York based comedy writer and performer whose credits include staff writing positions at CollegeHumor and MTV. She is also the founder and executive director of Project UROK, a non-profit whose mission is to create funny, meaningful videos for teenagers and young adults struggling with mental health issues, made by people who have been there before.She holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a member of (and later director of) Hammerkatz. She's from California, lives in Manhattan, and knows she'll inevitably wind up in Brooklyn. www.jennyjaffe.com | www.projecturok.org | @JennyJaffe on Twitter
Poster art by Arica Tuesday
Videos