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”It’s Your Birthday Whether It’s Your Birthday or Not!”
The Birthday Experience is a live comedy variety show celebrating whomever has a birthday that month! But anyone can attend -birthday or no birthday- it will be fun for everyone! Is it your birthday? Or a friend's birthday? Come on along! Even if it isn't, come on along!
The Birthday Experience has Robert Dayton as your excitable host, along with bandleader and sparkling keyboardist Jon Steinmeier, classic comedic clowning by Inessa Frantowski (scared to come alone? Don't be! Inessa will be your friend for the duration of the show), and wonderful puppeteer Molly Fite with Puppet Molly -a very good dancer! A gaggle of new friends for the audience to visit each and every show! There's cake, balloons, prizes, and surprises! And loads more birthday style entertainment!
Featuring:
Special Guest Natalie Palamides
Special Guest Kyle Mizono
Music by Jon Steinmeier
Puppeteer- Molly Fite
Classic clowning by George Chen (Mike Hans)
Hosted by Robert Dayton
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About Robert Dayton:
Hailing from Canada and now based in L.A., Robert has a long history of hosting and putting on live comedy variety shows. He’s toured all over North America and Australia and released a few albums with the comedic song-and-dance duo Canned Hamm, the unpredictable and lucid ‘no two shows the same’ act July Fourth Toilet, and the glittery larger-than-life character The Canadian Romantic which has a lenticular winking photo, videos, a doll, and art book. He hosts the Uh Oh Canadia screening series at Whammy. Robert has written a forthcoming history of Canadian Glam; his previous book was a pen-and-ink humour break-up book entitled The Empty Bed. Robert’s writing has appeared in Cinema Sewer, Maggot Brain, a piece on forgotten comedy duo La Troupe Grotesque for Nicolas Winding Refn’s website, as well as The Onion, and more. Credits include Male Fantasy, Scare Tactics, Jackboys video, etc. He won a National Magazine Award for his work as host/co-creator of the Pagelicker video series (Hazlitt/Random House) and holds an M.F.A. More here: www.robertdayton.com
About Jon Steinmeier:
As a thoughtful and versatile composer, Jon has written music for theater, ballet, television, short and feature film, and other live performance contexts. As a pro multi-instrumentalist and charismatic performer, he has spent over 15 years touring the US and Europe, performing and recording with artists including Mavis Staples, Andrew Bird, Tim Booth, Bobby Conn, Mucca Pazza, and Baby Dee.
Jon now lives in Los Angeles, where he composes and produces music for picture, performs music and comedy in studios and on stages, teaches music, and collaborates with other artists. He is also the bandleader for the popular comedy variety show Scot Nery’s Boobie Trap, as part of Fire Leopard.
About Molly Fite:
Molly Fite is a native of Vancouver, Washington. She trained at The Jim Henson Company as a puppeteer, and you can see her puppeting every week at the historic Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Highland Park. There she created and hosted an evening puppet/variety show for adults called When Puppets Are Your Only Friends. She has puppeteered for Pink Martini at The Hollywood Bowl, has appeared on Nick Junior's Ryan's Mystery Playdate, and in music videos for Allison Ponthier, and Twin Temple. Most recently she spent the summer in residency with Bob Baker at Knott's Berry Farm performing four puppet shows a day. She performs stand-up, sketch, and improv comedy, all over Los Angeles and has trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, I.O. West, The Groundlings, and The Second City. She has an MFA in Acting from UCSD, and she loves you very much.
Doors at 10 PM, Show starts at 10:30 PM
Seating begins 15 minutes before showtime, there is NO LATE SEATING. Seats are assigned on a first come first served basis, from the front of the theatre to the back. If you want to sit closer, be sure to arrive earlier.
Shows start no later than 10 MINUTES after the scheduled show time.