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Welcome to Mystery…

Friday, July 5, 2024
Welcome to Mystery…

Rogue Swan has a tradition, in their vaudeville productions, of opening the show with “Welcome to Mystery”. This is accompanied by a sort of organized chaos of players interracting and doing “stuff”. Not much there for my short zoom, but I like to grab a...

Hey Big Spender…

Thursday, July 4, 2024
Hey Big Spender…

The first big number of Rogue Swan’s “Decayed” vaudeville, after the opening, was seven ladies performing “Big Spender”, a somewhat naughty ditty. Here are two shots from that number, eked quite painfully from pure red lighting. The intro is the group addressing...

Rogue's "Major Men" – Coney Island

Thursday, July 4, 2024
Rogue's Major Men – Coney Island

Well, this group changes so much – maybe this will be it. For one performance they even had to change their name to The Three Quarters. They sounded good though. My one observation is that in the “other” River City, they are always, persistently, around...

Rogue Vaudeville Cast/band portrait – Which one tells the truth?

Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Rogue Vaudeville Cast/band portrait – Which one tells the truth?

Every major performance needs its cast portrait – and every Rogue performance needs one where they are all just being themselves. That’s where one can get some idea of what each one of them is like, both on stage and in real life. The color version is out...

Bre Soars with Dance in the Graveyard and Does a Great Chair Leap

Monday, July 1, 2024
Bre Soars with Dance in the Graveyard and Does a Great Chair Leap

I have my liiiiisst of needed images from Lilli. The two today I had already begun working on – Bre singing Dance in the Graveyard, and then in Bitch of Living outdoing everyone with her chair leap – I have the whole thing in three stages as she came down....

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