Mom and Dad's 44th Anniversary

This year mom and dad decided to celebrate their 44th Anniversary by staying at the Lummi (Dad's an official "card-holder" now) casino hotel, and coming to Vaudevillingham.

Sadye and I sang her hot dog song, with a few added lines to help celebrate their 44 year anniversary.

This was their reaction, captured by the talented Thaddeus Hink.

Priceless. I love these two!

Vaudevillingham with Sayde

 Sadye MC'd Vaudevillingham this month as a pizza slice. I stopped by the Quarry before hand to see if she needed any help getting ready for it, and we decided to do some vignettes in the show together so whipped together this fork costume! It was so fun, I sure love working with Sadye!

And then of course there's a fork in the road...

Here's a snippet from some of her other Vaudevillingham acts.

This is her trapeze act she is doing to try to win Abraham Lincoln's love, after feeding him a sandwich.

Here she performed free-style rapping with back-up dancers.

Here she put on pants with no hands to dramatic exciting music.

Success!

This gal is solid gold. Full comedy, full kindness, full out fun. I'm a full-on fan!

May Vaudevillingham

The set list. I was Super Cowboy (an act I started from Deep Clown) whose job was fighting toilet-paper nightmares, demons, and monsters under yer bed with her trusty squirt gun.

Mom and Pops at Vaudevillingham

My folks came to Vaudevillingham this month. I was so excited to hear they were coming, I put an act together with them in mind. I was offered the opportunity to run it the day before for James and Jamsie's feedback showing of their newest show. I was so delighted, and nervous, and grateful for it... the feedback helped me shape it better for the Vham show for my folks. Here's the Vham line up.

I called myself "Twirella Awesomella". I was a kid version of myself, performing for my parents a song and dance with a moustache ribbon (photo by Thaddeus Hink).

 It was fun acknowledging them, I just love and appreciate them so much! Here we are after the show...

Along with a bunch of Guildies who also love them!

Aaaaand, one in particular that mom reeeealy liked...

 Patrick. Just like my dad's name.

He was a good sport.
Another awesome? Well, my dad (after seeing so many performers from the Valentine's Day Show huddled around two bathroom mirrors) bought the Guild two plug-in rolling suitcase vanity mirrors with lights and everything! Here's Heidi using it.

And he donated more of his "Dads Hats". He said since I won't take money from him, he has to find some way to "make it fair" between my siblings and I. Well, whether I think his rational is necessary or not, the entire circus guild was delighted by his extremely thoughtful and generous contribution, and have been using it ever since. Thanks dad!

December Vaudevillingham 2014

I recently acquired (after asking around, then Todd trading a set for 4 tickets to Vaudevillingham) a fireman's pants and jacket. It's totally too big for me, and totally amazing. (This is Chipps wearing it, with Greg stuffed inside!)

So, it was time to put the fireman act on the stage. Thanks to a long afternoon with Rod helping me with the sound edits (baby noises, fire noises, Bonnie Tyler's "I Need a Hero" song), it was Vham draft ready.

I had recently acquired a red long under-onsie with the bum flap (from Anneka's free pile), which, since included in the act is an unsavory striptease, it was my dream outfit for under the fireman costume.

It was also Vaudevillinghams 7 year birthday (we think). So I dressed as Marilyn and sang happy birthday to Vham while Jason blew his leaf blower up my dress, and Chipps finished by confetti cannoning from under the dress too. It was super fun. Days later, a sweet gal named Linda saw me at the Y and said "You were great playing Marilyn Monroe. Your legs were perfect for it".

What a compliment!

October Vaudevillingham 2014

This month I got my Moustache song with bubbles and striptease act finished. It has been a culmination of many things. The song was written with help from RJ. The intro was with help from Chipps. The shave cream was from my class in Maine, along with the bubbles out of the mouth (done brilliantly by the sweetest comedienne Michela). The striptease part came from saying yes to an impromptu burlesque show at the Quarry. There are a few kinks to be worked out, but here's the link to the "final" product so far.

Moustache Song.

Vaudevillingham!

Oh Vaudevillingham. Back in the day I was the organizer of the whole thing... for 3 years (somewhere around 2008-2011). This bottle of wine was an idea RJ and I hatched to help the guild raise money. I think we raised a few bucks. The artwork was by George Jartos, and I designed the label. The wine was from the Whatcom Winemakers.

Vaudevillingham has been going strong for 6-ish years now. Chelsea is the current organizer, and she is recruiting them young to keep this performance legacy rolling!

Our youngest volunteer, Matia! Such a cute kid!

Vaude-Valentines and Mark Growden

For the fourth consecutive year, Anneka has coordinated the Valentines Day show for the Circus.

This year I was lucky enough to perform two acts with two of my most favorite people. Mylee came up for almost two weeks, and in that time, we finished choreographing and costuming the routine we performed for the Valentine's day show. We originally did it for our friend Mark Growden's show which was the week before Valentines day, and we also performed it at Vaudevillingham for a total of 3 performances! Here's the video from Valentines Day... it starts around 40 seconds.

Here's the video of Wren (the other of my most favorite people in no particular order) and I performing our re-worked version of the rope act as "The Knotty Nuptuals" at the Valentines Day show.

And we couldn't help but get "roped in" to the photo booth manned by the the incomparable Jeff Lefferts!

Here is the second act Mylee and I performed at Vaudevillingham... I love my job in this one... Don a moustache? Check. Look tough? Check. Get danced-up on by a beautiful woman? Check!

For Mark Growden's show, JustinCredible (first photo) put an act to Mark's song Saint Judas... here's the video and two fun photos of us together.

There were lots of other awesome acts for Valentines Day and Vaudevillingham. If you get a chance, come check out Vaudevillingham the 15th of every month at our new space 1401 6th Street off Harris in Fairhaven. To know of other awesome circusings or to help be reminded of Vham, you can sign up to receive our monthly newsletter at our website bellinghamcircusguild.com!