The Performances

Crazy Ideas:
the World According to the Minds of Irreverent Literary Humorists
May 8, 2004
8 P.M.
St. Andrew's Church, 163 Main Street in New Paltz
Admission $7
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Classic humor writing from a fantasy 'slumber party' of writers. - Vanity Fair

The list of this evening's voices of humor could best be called a “treasury of laughter,” representing the best comic writers in existence: from classic voices, such as Groucho Marx and James Thurber, to cutting-edge contemporary writers, such as Etgar Keret, Woody Allen, Steve Martin and David Sedaris, with Laurie Colwin and Bobbi Katz representing the woman’s comic point of view.

Stories to be read include: James Thurber’s classic “There’s An Owl In My Room,” Groucho Marx’s “Press Agents I Have Known,” Laurie Colwin’s “Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir,” and Steve Martin’s hilarious “Changes In The Memory After Fifty.” Israel’s hip young writer, Etgar Keret, is represented with “Jet Lag” and local author Bobbi Katz is featured with her story of a young woman’s coming of age, “Betrayal.” Rounding out the line-up will be Woody Allen’s “Selections From the Allen Notebooks” and an atypical story by David Sedaris, “Our Perfect Summer.”

Crazy Ideas will be an irresistibly funny gathering of ideas and words. This hilarious collection of sketches, parodies and poems will provide the perfect cure for everyone’s spring fever. The readers for these humorous stories are Don Wildy, Ruth Berg, Richard Cattabiani, Sean Marrinan, Christine Crawfis and Robert G. Miller.

The perfect cure for your "spring fever." Come and let us make you laugh.

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