Wednesday, August 27, 2008

We Can't Remember What You Look Like


El: I’m sad, Mel.

Mel: Tell me why.

El: I can’t remember what our audience looks like.

Mel: They look like people.

El: I know that, but I can’t picture their faces. I want to see their faces!

Mel: Can’t you just picture them in your mind’s eye?

El: I don’t know how.

Mel: I’ll help you. Close your eyes…

El: They’re closed.

Mel: Now imagine the most attractive people that you have ever seen…

El: Oh that's nice. I see Clive Owen and Angelina Jolie and Jake Gyllenhaal …

Mel: Maybe a little less attractive than that.

El: Ok. I see Michael and Jenny and Sandy and Rich…wow! This is just like the magic mirror from Romper Room!

Mel: Are you un-sad now?

El: No. Now I just miss them more. I want to see them in person.

Mel: Then you know what to do.

El: Offer them a discount to our next gig?

Mel: Correct.


Comix Musical Revue:
An evening with New York's top-rated musical comedy performers.
Tuesday, September 2nd at 8PM
Comix - 353 West 14th Street
Advance tickets - $15
Day of show tickets - $20


Thursday, September 11th at 9:30PM
The Duplex - 61 Christopher Street
$10 + 2 drink minimum

Wanna buy a pair of panties and attach them to your fridge with a magnet, all the while singing along to a recording of "Fagnet"?
Go to www.MelAndEl.com to figure out how.

Friday, August 15, 2008

What We Did On Our Summer Vacation



On our summer vacation, we got to go to New York Stage and Film. That's a theatre development program on the Vassar College campus. We were part of a group of really neat writers, musicians and performers who were all artists in residence from Ars Nova. Being an artist in residence means you get to work on your art under a tree. 





Sometimes we worked indoors, too.



We worked really hard...




... but there was also plenty of time for recreation.



 Our director, Moritz, taught us how to bowl with intensity. You might say he was a Bowler in Residence. 




Here he is holding his beer in residence. He deserves it.

We even went out dancing at the resident gay bar.


El is pictured here doing the universal sign for "moron".


Mornings were hard for some of us. If our composer Patrick didn't have plenty of coffee he became a zombie in residence.


All in all, we had a really super time. We're very excited to be back in the city so we can try out some of our new songs at upcoming gigs. We hope that you'll continue to be our audience. In residence.



Comix Musical Revue
An evening with New York's top-rated
musical comedy performers.
Tuesday, September 2nd at 8PM
Comix - 353 West 14th Street
Click HERE for tickets and info





On the Rocks with Danny Leary
Thursday, September 11th at 9:30PM
The Duplex - 61 Christopher Street
Click HERE for tickets and info