Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Bette Midler, Jim Morrison, Jon Montgomery and Ashley Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5piPATUo3A
Legend in the making Ashley Mitchell interviews living legend Jon Montgomery.
This is Ashley's first time interviewing anyone but you could never tell, she's already one of the best interviewers I ever worked with. The plan is to run a few more clips from this on the web and run most of the entire 50 minute interview over the course of several episodes of the TV show. Jon has so many good stories to tell! He's a living history book of New York Music.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Lucy, Bethany and Angel LIVE This Week in NYC!!!
The MOON IS A DISCO BALL
LIVE in BROOKLYN
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
THIS THURSDAY DECEMBER 2nd
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY
1087 Broadway in Brooklyn
By the Myrtle Avenue stop on the J, M, Z
11:45 PM FREE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ANGEL YAU APPEARING LIVE!
GET ANGELERISTICIZED!
ANGEL YAU
LIVE THIS THURSDAY IN QUEENS
8:00pm
@ Waltz in Astoria
23-14 Ditmars Blvd
It's free but you have to buy food or drinks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RACHEL CLEARY
(above) from The American Girls
is also appearing Thursday December 2nd in this show called.
"Auralfixia Presents: Magick!"
which features burlesque women and is sub-titled,
"A Sextacular Holiday Feast!"
So if you're hungry in THAT way, head on over to here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153267151384104
for more info.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MORE ASHLEY SOON!
More Ashley Mitchell soon on the 209 Show!
Ashley's got shows every week, so many she can't keep me up to date on all of them!
Check her out on the web at:
http://ashleymitchell.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
LIVE in BROOKLYN
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
THIS THURSDAY DECEMBER 2nd
GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY
1087 Broadway in Brooklyn
By the Myrtle Avenue stop on the J, M, Z
11:45 PM FREE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ANGEL YAU APPEARING LIVE!
GET ANGELERISTICIZED!
ANGEL YAU
LIVE THIS THURSDAY IN QUEENS
8:00pm
@ Waltz in Astoria
23-14 Ditmars Blvd
It's free but you have to buy food or drinks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RACHEL CLEARY
(above) from The American Girls
is also appearing Thursday December 2nd in this show called.
"Auralfixia Presents: Magick!"
which features burlesque women and is sub-titled,
"A Sextacular Holiday Feast!"
So if you're hungry in THAT way, head on over to here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153267151384104
for more info.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MORE ASHLEY SOON!
More Ashley Mitchell soon on the 209 Show!
Ashley's got shows every week, so many she can't keep me up to date on all of them!
Check her out on the web at:
http://ashleymitchell.net
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
Saturday, November 27, 2010
"Call Us Cowboys" Live Theater Review
“CALL US COWBOYS” Live Theater Review
Ashley Mitchell is an extremely unique actress/writer/director who is so good at performing comedy that she took a supporting role I gave her and turned it into a starring role without changing a word of dialogue. I've become convinced while animating her voice work that she is one of the finest comedy actors I've ever heard or seen. There's no way that what I wrote was half as funny as what she read! This woman, I thought, is born to do comedy and will be making people laugh their asses off for many years to come.
Last night was the first time I ever saw Ashley perform drama, in the play “Call Us Cowboys,” at Roy Arias Theater, and I'm at a loss to put into words how blown away I was by her moving performance. Anything I write down just seems like I'm kissing ass and you won't believe me because I work with her, but I don't work with her doing drama. I have no reason to encourage her to do that!!! I need her to do my funny cartoons! Also, I've worked with some decent actors over the years, I think, going back to CHUD when I was a kid, haha (Daniel Stern, John Heard). Ashley can do things I've never seen an actor be able to do before. I don't just mean laugh on cue or cry on cue with real tears (which she does painfully convincingly), but this girl was commanding the attention of the audience sometimes even when she turned her back to us. I don't only think that she would stand out in small theater productions like this one, I think she would stand out even among the most accomplished of performers. This girl is in her early 20s and after the show I saw actors older than her asking her to go into teaching. But although Ashley's techniques are clearly well thought out, and she could probably make any actor better, there would be no way to teach someone how to be as good as Ashley Mitchell.
See? I told you, it sounds like I'm kissing butt. This is one of my problems with live plays-- there's no evidence left after the performance, it's disappeared already into the ether. If it were a youtube video, I could PROVE my points by linking you to it, but because it was live, you only have word of mouth to go on. Live theater is so ephemeral. If you can check this play out tonight or tomorrow afternoon, you'll be able to see for yourself what I'm saying, but if you miss those shows, you'll never know what you missed.
The play itself is intense and sad, about the effects of war on people's lives. There are flashback scenes of Viet Nam and Iraq, and Aki Tsuchimoto stood out most in those scenes with her quirky and interesting performance as a Viet Namese artist who gets close to the wrong Yankee. But the play comes alive in the scenes of domestic quarreling between Ashley's character Wanda and her husband Frank, played by Kevin Ploth. At points I felt like I had been trapped at my parent's house after Thanksgiving, so genuine was the writing and the performance of domestic bliss turned to an ongoing and worsening, inescapable Hell.
I thought the ending, without getting into details, was a bit “deux ex machina” as written but the remarkable way Ashley chose to perform the scene was the main topic of conversation among the audience after the show, from what I could overhear. I don't want to give spoilers concerning the plot details, but let's just say that Ms. Mitchell managed to do things not written in the script and not using words at all (!) to completely sell the ending of the play and make it seem entirely emotionally satisfying and believable. She'll make the hairs on your arm stand on end and you will know you have witnessed something very special.
Although the play was well-written and all the actors did their jobs, my thought leaving there was, “I bet I could even give Ashley ten pages of gibberish to act out but by the end of it, she'd have the audience crying or laughing or feeling whatever she wanted them to feel.” She's just out of school and has no representation yet-- a situation not likely to last all that much longer. The idea that her skills are likely to improve with time is nearly frightening.
I'll tell you now the same thing I told her after the show: Ashley Mitchell has acting super powers.
Ashley Mitchell in
Call Us Cowboys written by Bruce Colbert and directed by Jorge Navarrete
Roy Arias Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, 212-957-8358
FINAL TWO PERFORMANCES:
Tonight (Saturday 11/27) 8pm, tomorrow (Sunday 11/28) 3 pm
http://royariasstudios.com/
http://www.ashleymitchell.net/
Ashley Mitchell is an extremely unique actress/writer/director who is so good at performing comedy that she took a supporting role I gave her and turned it into a starring role without changing a word of dialogue. I've become convinced while animating her voice work that she is one of the finest comedy actors I've ever heard or seen. There's no way that what I wrote was half as funny as what she read! This woman, I thought, is born to do comedy and will be making people laugh their asses off for many years to come.
Last night was the first time I ever saw Ashley perform drama, in the play “Call Us Cowboys,” at Roy Arias Theater, and I'm at a loss to put into words how blown away I was by her moving performance. Anything I write down just seems like I'm kissing ass and you won't believe me because I work with her, but I don't work with her doing drama. I have no reason to encourage her to do that!!! I need her to do my funny cartoons! Also, I've worked with some decent actors over the years, I think, going back to CHUD when I was a kid, haha (Daniel Stern, John Heard). Ashley can do things I've never seen an actor be able to do before. I don't just mean laugh on cue or cry on cue with real tears (which she does painfully convincingly), but this girl was commanding the attention of the audience sometimes even when she turned her back to us. I don't only think that she would stand out in small theater productions like this one, I think she would stand out even among the most accomplished of performers. This girl is in her early 20s and after the show I saw actors older than her asking her to go into teaching. But although Ashley's techniques are clearly well thought out, and she could probably make any actor better, there would be no way to teach someone how to be as good as Ashley Mitchell.
See? I told you, it sounds like I'm kissing butt. This is one of my problems with live plays-- there's no evidence left after the performance, it's disappeared already into the ether. If it were a youtube video, I could PROVE my points by linking you to it, but because it was live, you only have word of mouth to go on. Live theater is so ephemeral. If you can check this play out tonight or tomorrow afternoon, you'll be able to see for yourself what I'm saying, but if you miss those shows, you'll never know what you missed.
The play itself is intense and sad, about the effects of war on people's lives. There are flashback scenes of Viet Nam and Iraq, and Aki Tsuchimoto stood out most in those scenes with her quirky and interesting performance as a Viet Namese artist who gets close to the wrong Yankee. But the play comes alive in the scenes of domestic quarreling between Ashley's character Wanda and her husband Frank, played by Kevin Ploth. At points I felt like I had been trapped at my parent's house after Thanksgiving, so genuine was the writing and the performance of domestic bliss turned to an ongoing and worsening, inescapable Hell.
I thought the ending, without getting into details, was a bit “deux ex machina” as written but the remarkable way Ashley chose to perform the scene was the main topic of conversation among the audience after the show, from what I could overhear. I don't want to give spoilers concerning the plot details, but let's just say that Ms. Mitchell managed to do things not written in the script and not using words at all (!) to completely sell the ending of the play and make it seem entirely emotionally satisfying and believable. She'll make the hairs on your arm stand on end and you will know you have witnessed something very special.
Although the play was well-written and all the actors did their jobs, my thought leaving there was, “I bet I could even give Ashley ten pages of gibberish to act out but by the end of it, she'd have the audience crying or laughing or feeling whatever she wanted them to feel.” She's just out of school and has no representation yet-- a situation not likely to last all that much longer. The idea that her skills are likely to improve with time is nearly frightening.
I'll tell you now the same thing I told her after the show: Ashley Mitchell has acting super powers.
Ashley Mitchell in
Call Us Cowboys written by Bruce Colbert and directed by Jorge Navarrete
Roy Arias Theater, 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, 212-957-8358
FINAL TWO PERFORMANCES:
Tonight (Saturday 11/27) 8pm, tomorrow (Sunday 11/28) 3 pm
http://royariasstudios.com/
http://www.ashleymitchell.net/
Friday, November 26, 2010
Ashley Mitchell All Weekend plus Meat Reviews! (Pix)
To
see this mailer in color on the web, go to: http://209show.blogspot.com
ASHLEY MITCHELL All Weekend!
Ashley from 209
Show is acting in a play this weekend that I've heard is really
good!
"CALL US COWBOYS"
@ Roy Arias Studios, 300 W. 43rd St., 5th Floor
TONIGHT (Black Friday 11/26): 8 PM
Saturday 11/27: 8 PM
Sunday 11/28: 3 PM "afternoon delight"
Admission: $15 cash (American money ONLY)
You're going to want to brag that you saw Ashley before she was a big star,
so go check her out this weekend in NYC!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
New Episode of 418 Show!
"REVIEWS OF FOODS THAT WOULD DISGUST FRANK NORA"
plus
"Lucy & Bethany to meet Frank Nora?"
and
"Other Topics Besides Frank Nora!"
Download here:
http://209show.com/418/418showep06.mp3
It should be available shortly on http://onsug.com
Full details of the contents of the mp3 download:
ROBOT INTRO, Over upstate, reviews of food that would sicken Frank Nora, 209
license plate, chili-covered pineapple slices, Yung Ki 209, new recorder, loud
outside, I hate itunes, my mp3 player broke, K-Mart inside Penn Station, stainless
steel mp3 player, quieter inside, "The American Girls" looks good
when shrunk down on my $30 video player, recording directly to mp3 on a budget,
I just got up, Lucy and Bethany and I are supposed to interview Frank Nora,
Lucy and Bethany playing in Brooklyn, WPAT interviewing Lucy & Bethany,
Me Singing 209 was a rich white New Jersey girl pretending to be a black girl
who was portrayed by a born again Christian Australian girl, possible new podcast
with Ashley and Alicia, my cartoon character has started writing her own material,
are there any female podcasters on onsug?, Ashley is in a play this weekend
and The Moon is a Disco Ball are playing Brooklyn this coming week, MEAT REVIEWS:
McRib and Subway Breakfast Special, robot outro.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
see this mailer in color on the web, go to: http://209show.blogspot.com
ASHLEY MITCHELL All Weekend!
Ashley from 209
Show is acting in a play this weekend that I've heard is really
good!
"CALL US COWBOYS"
@ Roy Arias Studios, 300 W. 43rd St., 5th Floor
TONIGHT (Black Friday 11/26): 8 PM
Saturday 11/27: 8 PM
Sunday 11/28: 3 PM "afternoon delight"
Admission: $15 cash (American money ONLY)
You're going to want to brag that you saw Ashley before she was a big star,
so go check her out this weekend in NYC!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
New Episode of 418 Show!
"REVIEWS OF FOODS THAT WOULD DISGUST FRANK NORA"
plus
"Lucy & Bethany to meet Frank Nora?"
and
"Other Topics Besides Frank Nora!"
Download here:
http://209show.com/418/418showep06.mp3
It should be available shortly on http://onsug.com
Full details of the contents of the mp3 download:
ROBOT INTRO, Over upstate, reviews of food that would sicken Frank Nora, 209
license plate, chili-covered pineapple slices, Yung Ki 209, new recorder, loud
outside, I hate itunes, my mp3 player broke, K-Mart inside Penn Station, stainless
steel mp3 player, quieter inside, "The American Girls" looks good
when shrunk down on my $30 video player, recording directly to mp3 on a budget,
I just got up, Lucy and Bethany and I are supposed to interview Frank Nora,
Lucy and Bethany playing in Brooklyn, WPAT interviewing Lucy & Bethany,
Me Singing 209 was a rich white New Jersey girl pretending to be a black girl
who was portrayed by a born again Christian Australian girl, possible new podcast
with Ashley and Alicia, my cartoon character has started writing her own material,
are there any female podcasters on onsug?, Ashley is in a play this weekend
and The Moon is a Disco Ball are playing Brooklyn this coming week, MEAT REVIEWS:
McRib and Subway Breakfast Special, robot outro.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
Monday, November 22, 2010
Celebrate the Kennedy Assassination with Angel Yau!
A TRAGIC DAY IN AMERICA'S HISTORY
This newly-discovered photograph taken just after the Kennedy assassination
and clearly showing the "grassy knoll" in the background
APPEARS to depict 209 Show star ANGEL YAU
carrying a high-powered rifle and making a quick getaway.
I know what you're thinking-- Angel is too young to have been there!
Well, the truth is, Angel's 89 years old--
it's just that Asian chicks stay young-looking.
Duh, everyone knows that.
So anyway, Angel's even more of a celebrity than we thought!
And WAY more of a bad-ass too.
...what? Too soon?
Watch Angel answer YOUR phone calls TONIGHT on TV in NYC!
Tomight Monday latenight Manhattan 2am Ch. 67 or 75
Brooklyn midnight ch. 56 or 69
http://209show.com
It's our special Thanksgiving episode--
I think I cut in some footage of a turkey cartoon or something.
That's how you can tell.
ALSO ON TONIGHT'S FABULOUS EPISODE:
THE MOON IS A DISCO BALL!
Lucy and Bethany from The Moon is a Disco Ball perform
their rain/shine hula dance
for YOU on tongiht's episode!
PLUS:
Meet the gorgeous and talented
ASHLEY MITCHELL!
Photo of Ashley by http://www.tomwaltzphotography.com/
Find out more about Ashley here: http://peterbernard.com/pbnyc/
of course, here: http://ashleymitchell.net
and, soon, here: http://theamericangirls.info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ANGEL YAU and THE MOON IS A DISCO BALL
both have shows in NEW YORK CITY coming up on
FRIDAY, DECEMBER SECOND--
the Friday AFTER Thanksgiving.
Angel is playing in Queens and The Moon girls are playing in Brooklyn.
It's gonna be a fun night of subway riding for Peter that night haha.
I will have more details for you concerning both of these
CAN'T MISS APPEARANCES
veddy veddy shortly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
This newly-discovered photograph taken just after the Kennedy assassination
and clearly showing the "grassy knoll" in the background
APPEARS to depict 209 Show star ANGEL YAU
carrying a high-powered rifle and making a quick getaway.
I know what you're thinking-- Angel is too young to have been there!
Well, the truth is, Angel's 89 years old--
it's just that Asian chicks stay young-looking.
Duh, everyone knows that.
So anyway, Angel's even more of a celebrity than we thought!
And WAY more of a bad-ass too.
...what? Too soon?
Watch Angel answer YOUR phone calls TONIGHT on TV in NYC!
Tomight Monday latenight Manhattan 2am Ch. 67 or 75
Brooklyn midnight ch. 56 or 69
http://209show.com
It's our special Thanksgiving episode--
I think I cut in some footage of a turkey cartoon or something.
That's how you can tell.
ALSO ON TONIGHT'S FABULOUS EPISODE:
THE MOON IS A DISCO BALL!
Lucy and Bethany from The Moon is a Disco Ball perform
their rain/shine hula dance
for YOU on tongiht's episode!
PLUS:
Meet the gorgeous and talented
ASHLEY MITCHELL!
Photo of Ashley by http://www.tomwaltzphotography.com/
Find out more about Ashley here: http://peterbernard.com/pbnyc/
of course, here: http://ashleymitchell.net
and, soon, here: http://theamericangirls.info
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ANGEL YAU and THE MOON IS A DISCO BALL
both have shows in NEW YORK CITY coming up on
FRIDAY, DECEMBER SECOND--
the Friday AFTER Thanksgiving.
Angel is playing in Queens and The Moon girls are playing in Brooklyn.
It's gonna be a fun night of subway riding for Peter that night haha.
I will have more details for you concerning both of these
CAN'T MISS APPEARANCES
veddy veddy shortly.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
Monday, November 15, 2010
Ashley Hosts Tonight!
Angel @ Philly Sketch Fest 2010
Angel had a lot of fun at the Philly Festival...
It was full of Glitter, Blood and Awkward Silence... the good kind!
It was the first time they invited other cities and solo performers on to this third year festival!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TONIGHT ON TV
Meet lovely and talented
ASHLEY MITCHELL
Actress/Writer and star of the forthcoming
cartoon web series,
"The American Girls"
co-starring RACHEL CLEARY
These cartoons take hellishly long to animate and render, but I swear this will
premiere soon.
There's already a Facebook page for the character Alicia America (below).
I was helping Alicia do the page at first but she fired me and now Ashley Mitchell
is helping her with it.
They still sometimes use some of my photos but they never give me photo credit
and they've changed the password so I can't access it anymore.
At least they haven't unfriended and blocked me... yet!
You can friend these crazy girls here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001885262314
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ALSO TONIGHT ON TV:
ROBOTS IN LOVE!
PLUS
ANGEL YAU LIVE @ UCB THEATRE!
PLUS
WORLD PREMIERE VIDEOS
by
THE MOON IS A DISCO BALL!!!
Watch the show TONIGHT on TV
Manhattan: Channel 67 or 75 2am
Brooklyn: 12 midnight, channel 56 or 69
Or watch it now online for free here:
http://209show.com/209show/111610.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE MOON IS A DISCO BALL in BROOKLYN!
ANGEL YAU in ASTORIA, QUEENS!!!
COMING DECEMBER SECOND!
More info after Thanksgiving!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://209show.com
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