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Mickee's on the radio tonight in a grand battle of sorcery, with the future of Florida at stake. Don't miss it! 

Tune in to WVFS FM 89.7 tonight at 9 PM, or listen to the live stream at http://www.wvfs.fsu.edu

Tao Z. Jonz will be doing the Monkey Bungo all night long (or until they stop) with a guest rodent chorus at the Clubhouse this First Friday, August 5. General First Friday festivities, including a variety of food, art, and general gettin' down start all over Railroad Square at 6:00, with music on the main stage in the Clubhouse starting at 7:30.

Fun, fun, fun, and admission is free!

This is it!!   Vamping high-heeled boys and the Ballerinas of Bilitis will be strutting their stuff on the Faust stage tonight, tomorrow and next weekend.  Amazing amount of work has gone into making this one of the queerest of the Queer As Faust cabarets.  And the only way you'll get any more out of me about it is if you go to the link for "Faust with Benefits" and buy a ticket.  Come see for yourself why we're truly the community theatre for the weird community!!

Many thanks to all who stopped in and took a seat to watch some of our skits for the upcoming "Faust with Benefits" performance in rehearsal.  It not only gave the audience a snap shot of what to expect at the shows, but it gave the performers an opportunity to practice in front of the "live studio audience" and see what works and what needs some tweaking.   We've spruced up the rathole, did a some yoga stretching to let the money flow a little easier into the Faust coffers, and made the material of this cabaret "broadcast-friendly" for the "Mickee Faust's It Gets Better?" radio show on the 29th.   Rehearsals resumed this afternoon: closeted queers, dancing dykes, and high-heeled boys.  Intrigued?  Get your tickets now for June 17, 18, 24 or 25.

I find myself spending many hours of my waking moments in the day replaying and rethinking blocking for the pieces in the "Faust with Benefits" cabaret.  Things are going well in the pieces I'm involved with, both as performer and director.  But it is an odd experience to find yourself wondering, "How do you make a vulva puppet shoot laser beams and become a character separate from the puppeteer?"   You'll just have to see it to believe it! 

Cirque de Faust, the Mickee Faust Club's spring cabaret, opens April 1!

Yes, rats, mice, voles, shrews, rodent-curious, and allies, spring has sprung, and there have been major doings at the Clubhouse:

• Guest artists Elizabeth Whitney and Lea Robinson passing around the Southern Comfort during their show, "Syrup in Our Shorts."
• Yet another stage of construction work done in the Adelaide Schnittman rehearsal hall, with more to come.
• Writers' meeting kick-offs for upcoming radio shows and this summer's Queer as Faust 4: Queer Quatro.
  
• A lovingly re-organized costume/prop space (rapidly disorganizing itself, even now, in the name of . . . )
• Writing, costume- and set-building-, and mad, mad rehearsing for Cirque de Faust:  The Most Obsessive Show on Earth!

With the arrival of a new governor and a brand-new legislative session, Faustkateers thoughts, naturally, turn to getting the heck out of Dodge. What better way than to run away and join the circus? 

Unfortunately, the circuses we contacted were not interested in trained rat acts. (They spook the elephants.) 

So naturally, we decided to put on our own show, built around our own personal obsessions. All-new material: music, sketch comedy, original monologues, and less-easily-categorized Faustian madness from the most sideshow-worthy reaches of our slave rat minds. Don't miss it!



Mickee Faust presents

Cirque de Faust:
The Most Obsessive Show on Earth

An all-new cabaret

April 1-2 & 7-9, 2011

Curtain at 8 PM.

Join us in the backyard at 7 PM for live music with Eclectic Acoustic.

General Admission - $15.00
Students, Retirees, and People with Disabilities - $10.00

OK, so the Republicans with the support of the Mad Hatter Party, scored big wins in elections all over the country.  Now what will they do?  Tune in Wednesday night January 5th to WVFS-FM 89.7 at 9pm and listen to what public radio might sound like with Republicans running the show!   It's a re-working of the 2005 Mickee Faust's National Privatized Radio, with such classics as Words for the Wise Guys, Creation Science Friday, and Endangered Species Splendid Table.  Laugh now...before it becomes a reality!  Wednesday, Jan. 5th 9-10pm.  If you can't listen on the radio, tune in via the web: www.wvfs.fsu.edu.

Last night's First Friday twisted carol singing at the Clubhouse was a blast!  If you have pictures, recordings, or video of the event, please send them to sharon@mickeefaust.org, and we'll post them here.

(Alternatively, you could send them to the folks in the pictures, recordings, etc., point them to this blog entry, and wait for the hush money to roll in.) 

(Please note that parenthetical remarks are intended as satire, and not actual suggestions to take up illegal activities, which we would never, ever condone.  But seriously, send us the pics.)

Yet another  has bit the dust!  But not without first taking in a nice haul of cash and pleasing that fickle little entity known as our audience. If you missed it, you'll want to choke on your own envy and die.   It was best show we've done in over a decade.   But then I say that after every damn show.

Anyway, we're closing down for the -- or rather we're  being frozen out.  In the meantime join us for one last sheebang-- the

This year we'll have live music AND a machine. Whet those vocal chords and come join us as we do our own X-mas brand of caroling.  Absolutely free of course!

 

tty

GIVE US YOUR BEST NEW SLOGAN FOR BP; WIN A WEEKEND ON THE GULF COAST

Beach Polluters? Bothered Patrons? Bastard Pigs? Broken Promises?

In the wake of one of the country’s worst man-made disasters in history, the Mickee Faust Club, those rascally rodents of Railroad Square, is offering up a spankin’ fresh twist on the much lamented BP Gulf of Mexico oil disaster:

Give us your most provocative, outrageous ad slogan spoofing our friends across the pond, British Petroleum. In exchange, we will give you two free tickets to our fall cabaret show, “Apocalypse Faust” and a can of anchovies (yes!)

“The BP oil spill is Beyond Pardonable,” says Terry Galloway, artistic director of Mickee Faust who plays the company’s disreputable rat leader. “We’re throwing down the oily rag and challenging the Tallahassee community to come up with their own skewering slogans for the oil barbarians.”

Four finalists will have their slogans featured in a skit during the upcoming “Apocalypse Faust”. This fall cabaret show is a darkly comedic look at the very best in disasters past, present and future done as only Mickee Faust can do: with wicked humor, rancor, and general weirdness.

The finalists will get the free can of anchovies, two tickets to one performance, and the thrill of having their slogan included in the show. They will also be eligible to win a grand prize: a grouper and weekend stay for two in Franklin County with accommodation at the Sportsmen Lodge B&B in Eastpoint, FL.

Entries must be received by 12 P.M. November 3rd. Send entries to contest@mickeefaust.com or drop by or mail entries to the Mickee Faust Clubhouse.

“Apocalypse Faust” will be performed at the Mickee Faust Clubhouse, 623 McDonnell Drive in Railroad Square at 8 P.M. on Friday and Saturday November 5-6, and Thursday through Saturday, November 11-13.