Darlings,
This time next week it will be October and we’ll get to use all the boo jokes and ghost emojis we want! But for now, let’s enjoy the graceful final act of Sweet September.
Last week was a lovely one 'round these parts, with the triumphant return of
Sam Morril (“Still electric!” - Jamie Flam), the staged reading of
Men Don’t Whisper that brought out the stars on the stage
and in the audience (ooh la la!), a totally a sold out
Hollywood Handbook that brought out all those
Hollywood Fanbooks, (if that isn’t a thing it should be!) and the Dynasty debut of
RISK! with risky stories being told to the delight of the audience.
Cameron Esposito’s monthly show was as wonderful as ever, with some new material that made us feel many of the feelings (
all the feelings wouldn’t be good to feel, after all, there are MANY feelings that are quite unpleasant and we didn’t experience those!) Fun fact, Cameron had a best friend in high school named
Mike Macaluso. We have a
Mike Macaluso here too who's our full-time AGM! He's not the SAME Mike, but Cameron and our Mike do have a fun little spark between them. Life! And here’s another fun Macaluso Fact-a-luso: Our Mike was on a game show this week! And he WON! Yes, with the help of
Rick Fox and
John Michael Higgins, Mike won “25 Words Or Less” a new game show hosted by
MEREDITH FREAKIN' VIEIRA that Google says
requires the skills of: word associating, bidding, and clue-giving. Uncanny: Those were all listed as Additional Skills on Mike's resume (along with "adept in WordPerfect").
This week we’ve got it all! Book releases! Stand-up! Improv! Fast and the Furious themed musicals! FILM LEGENDS! Don’t believe us? Heeeere’s the breakdown!
TONIGHT! LAUREN SHIPPEN (creator of The Bright Sessions podcast) has a book release event for her novel,
The Infinite Noise, a YA supernatural joint! She’ll be in conversation with
BRITTA LUNDIN (writer for RIVERDALE, author of SHIP IT.) If you like books, imagination, celebrations of queer culture, and explorations of empathy, congratulations, THIS is your event!
WEDNESDAY! Ye ol’
WorkJuicers are back on the clock! If you’re unfamiliar, the gang you fell in love with on
THRILLING ADVENTURE HOUR went off and started themselves a damn improv troupe, and they come to the Dynasty the last Wednesday of the month. This month
PAUL F. TOMPKINS, CRAIG CACKOWSKI, MARK GAGLIARDI, ANNIE SAVAGE, HAL LUBLIN, and LI’L JANET VARNEY take the stage with guest monologist
AUTUMN REESER! It’s improv so good someone should write it all down and sell the scripts.
WITH THEIR CONSENT!
THURSDAY! Do you like hilarious things!? Congratulations!
JEN KIRKMAN will be here with a fresh n’ piping hot hour for you to enjoy. Come! Enjoy!
FRIDAY! When
they’re here, the name becomes a truism! It’s the always packed, always hilarious,
Everything’s Great! A show so powerful it needs three hosts
NICK KOCHER, DEMI ADEJUYIGBE and
ADDIE WEYRICH to contain it! This month’s special guests (not to take away from the TRUE specialness of the aforementioned hosts) are
MITRA JOUHARI, DREW TARVER, CARL TART and
DANA DONNELLY!
SATURDAY! Have you seen
The Fast and the Furious: A Musical Parody yet? Good news if you have: you can see it again and SING ALONG now that you’re acclimated! Good news if you haven’t: You can see it! And
Jamie and Vanessa agree, you don’t need to be familiar with the source material AT ALL to have the best time ever. Other people have agreed, it’s fun to be familiar with the source material! Basically what we’re presenting you with is a series of win-win situations, because we know you are a winner. We don’t believe in participation trophies, we believe in WINNER TROPHIES FOR EVERYONE. Tough love is incredibly overrated.
SUNDAY! We are having our very first 90th birthday celebration… nay, celebration is too light a word it’s...
Don Murray’s 90th Birthday Extravaganza! DON MURRAY is an actor who has been working on some of the most interesting projects in Hollywood for the last 70 years. As recently as 2017’s
TWIN PEAKS return, and as impossibly legendary as 1956’s Bus Stop, as the romantic lead opposite a lil’ lady named
MARILYN MONROE. Add to this little projects like
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Peggy Sue Got Married, and
Knotts Landing, and honey you got yourself a recipe for a flarpin’ extravaganza. Put together and hosted by
bonafide sweetie ERIC EDELSTEIN (We Bare Bears! Twin Peaks! Shameless!) the event will also feature LEGENDS including TWO Hitchcock blondes! (Reductive term for absolutely killer actors!)
TIPPI HEDREN (
The Birds! Roar! Are we allowed to talk about Roar!?) and
EVA MARIE SAINT (Oscar winner for
On The Waterfront! Indelible in
North By Northwest!) Plus
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN! You know the guy! We are FLIPPING OUT. Join us, and let your jaw drag along the floor with ours! And then at 8pm, we’ve got a bevy of modern mares in the amazing
WILD HORSES! It’s longform improv from a slew of slayers:
STEPHANIE ALLYNNE, MARY HOLLAND, LAUREN LAPKUS, ERIN WHITEHEAD and special guest,
LEISHA HAILEY (The L word!) We take our horses like we take our jokers honey, wild wild wild!
MONDAY! It’s one of the final
HARMONTOWN shows and the special guest is
MITCH HURWITZ creator of
Arrested Development (and EP of
Lady Dynamite! And a ton of other things!) so pull on your jean shorts and call up your fellow never-nudes, party in H-town whilst ye can!
In other news,
Jamie and
Vanessa had a creative summit last week in Lake Arrowhead. We discovered that: A-frames are the best type of architecture, the
Thomas Kinkade puzzle we brought wasn’t very satisfying,
classic taco flavored Doritos live up to the hype (if there was any hype), Season 2 of Fargo is as good on second viewing, and ONE of us doesn’t have panic attacks while driving up mountains! (Guesses welcome, the truth withheld.) We had some dedicated time to focus on big-picture creative endeavors for the theater, and we’re so excited to share what we’ve been dreaming of and creating google docs about for years. But also we came up with the concept of being
LINDTCEPTED (when your Lindt story is being asked what your Lindt story is) and creating a chocolate-centric area of the theater called the Lindt Trap (like The Parent Trap but with chocolate).
More like A+ frame,
Jamie and Vanessa
few Dynasty folks at the last minute (via the newsletter! remember? "There is value in the newsletter!” our version of “there’s always money in the banana stand”) and it was a great show, packed house, and it had it all: raps, laughs, and wine in Capri Sun style pouches. Aside: Capri Sun is the most chic juice name of all time. Motts, Hi C, Juicy Juice… BABY NAMES. And then, Capri Sun. It’s so evocative! You can smell the salt air! Feel the texture of the cave wall in the blue grotto. Capri Sun: it conjures the elegance of a simple silk shift dress, the luxury of a long stay in an old villa, the nostalgia of summers past and the hope of endless summers to come. CAPRI SUN. Anyway. We also had a mind-blowing comedy and magic show (thank you HARRISON GREENBAUM!) a two show night from Irish sketch sensations FOIL ARMS and HOG (very sensational!) the return of Dynasty darling CAMERON ESPOSITO, a wild horror marathon / potluck that kept us adrenaline fueled for 12 hours and the always amazing LET’S GO ATSUKO. 
favorites. TONIGHT it’s the show that will take whatever preconceptions you have about what a crossword puzzle show might be like and DESTROYYYY THEM! It’s ZACH SHERWIN’s 
for you. JUDAH: the leader we deserve. Then at 10pm it’s the triumphant return of 
On OCT 26th at 7pm come for an epic 
be decked out with spoooooky things, and we’ll be partying 
at 2pm it’s a 
her Comedy Central special here, and it promises to be VERY SPECIAL! She brought it all to every taping, and the crew jujzhed up the space reallll nice... we’re talking chandeliers and shiny floors, baby. We can’t wait to see the finished project, because the parts of the project we’ve already seen in their original state were TOPS.
Now let’s dangle this week’s bait (Dynasty IS catch and release.) WEDNESDAY we are so excited for HARRISON GREENBAUM! He’s bringing his comedy and magic show, 
Saturday we had the joy of another GO DAY! We got to hang out with our community, brag about our new WIRELESS MICS , get inspired by Brent Forrester, get a peek inside Atsuko Okatsuka’s creative process (it’s IMPERATIVE to muse aloud about make out sessions with your local pomeranian) and she taught us some hot choreo! Jamie and Vanessa CAME TO LIFE to the sound of Lizzo’s Juice, and we declared once again, that we are BORN TO DANCE. Jamie Flam described it as “electric." Now to teach our bodies to live up to our purpose. We’ll keep you posted. Then Saturday night, we had Jackie Kashian’s edition of Dynasty Tonight with a killer lineup. Jackie’s long set was amazing (of course! She’s really one of our favs), the audience was maybe the best ever (sorry other audiences! This one was just so responsive, so present, so… so dang clappy!) and we had a drop in from ZACH GALIFIANAKIS! 
He set was a treat, and we were even more excited than last time he was here (we were very excited then too) because now we’ve seen and loved all of Baskets. He plays twins in that show, so his star power has DOUBLED! Last night we writhed to the epic musical genius of SNL's Beck Bennett and Gabe Noel. They’ve been working on their music in private for the last 15 years and WHAT AN UNVEILING it was. Lights! Fog! Drones! And a tiiiiiiny little guitar. Someone described that as "electric."
included: Up & Up’s return after a month off, Lisa Loeb in concert, Major Entertainer and Neil Hamburger burgerin’ it up! Speaking of burgerin’ it up, juggler extraordinaire Michael Rayner burgered it up with FLARE using a parasol and a quarter pounder during a packed Dynasty Tonight that had it all. Afterwards we made way for another SOLD OUT Everything’s Great, this time with 1000% more scooters. That's an inside joke, to encourage you to get tickets early for the next one, cuz there's gonna be more where that came from!* 
