September 1-3, 2006
At Davidson
College in Davidson, N.C., USA
The Family Vaudeville Extravaganza
Show time is 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 2, in the Duke Family Performance Hall at Davidson College. Tickets are $5. Reservations can be made by calling the College Union ticket office, 704-894-2135 from 10-4 weekdays beginning August 21. Or order your tickets online by clicking here. The Duke Family Performance Hall is building number 31 on this campus map.
Performers in the show include Juggling Sensei Matt Hall, Randy Cabral with his juggling comedy and other useless skills, Bubble Master Darren Burrell, the eccentric comedy of Kirk Marsh, the juggling mastery of the Dazzling Dimuzios, and Karl Saliter with his amazing platform dive into a Dixie cup of water!
For more than 15
years The Great Fettucini (a.k.a. Steve Langley) has traveled
the world in presenting a show described as "a three-ring circus on a
caffeine high" and "slapstick for the baby boom generation." Steve presents physical and verbal comedy with a wide
range of circus skills such as club juggling, unicycling, bouncing balls,
spinning plates, dancing diabolos, and clanging cups. He has performed
at festivals and fairs nationwide, on the high seas on cruise ships, and
in 1996 he was entertaining athletes in the Olympic Village in Atlanta. He and partners, performing as The Fettucini Brothers,
have also been featured on national TV shows such as "An Evening at the
Improv," "The Statler Brothers Show" and "The Crook and Chase Show." Matt Hall began his juggling career at the tender age of age 27. Seven short years later, he won the silver medal for Individuals at the 2003 International Jugglers' Association's (IJA) Festival in Reno, Nevada. Soon afterwards, Matt received invitations to perform as a guest star at the 2003 European Juggling Convention, the 2004 British Juggling Convention in Derby, England, and in the 2004 IJA Cascade of Stars show. He was awarded the Ben Linder Award for being the most Inspirational Juggler at the 2004 Portland Juggling Festival, represented the USA at the ESPN/World Juggling Federation championships and waschosen as the 2005 Peoples' Choice Award winner at the IJA Festival in Davenport, Iowa, where he also took top honors in the Diabolo and Cigar Boxes prop competitions. This year, he has performed and emceed shows at the Sydney Juggling Festival in Australia, the Israeli Juggling Festival, and the British Juggling Convention. He won a coveted Groundhog Phil Award for "Most Mind Bending" at the Atlanta Juggling Festival. Matt still considers himself a hobby juggler, and works full-time as a high school Japanese language teacher in San Jose, Calif. He says, "I think of myself as a regular guy who keeps ending up in amazing situations despite not being that great a juggler. It's very Forrest Gump-like. All I can say is if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone."
Visit
Matt's home page.
As a corporate entertainer for fifteen years, Randy Cabral has performed more than 5,000 shows at Walt Disney World, and has sailed three oceans while headlining on major cruise lines. He learned to juggle at age 16, earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in psychology, then honed his entertainer skills studying with Ringling Brothers clowns, choreographers from Cirque du Soleil, and actors from Broadway and Second City in Chicago. He is most proud of his ability to play Yankee Doodle on seven instruments.
Visit
www.randyjuggler.com
Kirk Marsh has been described as Charlie Chaplin, Jerry Lewis, and Dick Van Dyke rolled into one. Marsh combines a quirky personality with vaudeville's rich traditions of magic, juggling, eccentric dance, and audience participation, and leaves audiences in stitches with his comic portrayal of a man at odds with his life and his props. For the past ten years Marsh has been entertaining audiences in casinos from Beirut to Las Vegas, on the largest cruise ships in the world, and in widely renowned circuses. Visit
www.kirkmarsh.com
"Burl the Bubble Guy" was accepted into Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey's Clown College in 1995, and got hooked on bubble tricks. He developed his act with the Kelly Miller Circus beginning from 1996-2000, and then joined Ringling Brothers Circus, which named him "Boss Clown" in 2003. But Burl has now left the road and settled in Myrtle Beach, where he joins the Seaside Clowns perfoming at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion, and occasionally performs on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
Visit
www.burlthebubbleguy.com
Karl Saliter has been a full time international performer for 20 years, performing extensively throughout the US, in Europe and Asia, and on stages from the Palace of Variety in Times Square, to Lincoln Center. His trademark "Amazing Cup Dive" features an attempted dive into a dixie cup of water from a three-foot-high board. The absurdity of the setup rivets the attention of audiences like a gorilla holding a pet egg. Assisted by audience members, Karl dons bathing cap, flippers, and goggles in to prepare, and his execution is a winner every time.
