CANARSIE SUITE At the Edge of Vaudeville The gilded dreams of small-time performers Birdie and Gladys LeRoy unravel at the seams: Birdie thrashes in the undertow of an existential crisis while anything-for-a-smile Gladys battles to save the sensational LeRoy Sister-Act from doom. AlexFranck.com “AMAZING,” “POWERFUL” - NY Clown Theater Festival “Relentless, Broadway-size energy” - Prague TV Canarsie Suite is a hilarious Vaudeville Noir that celebrates the gritty, courageous stage life of female entertainers in the 1900s as it chronicles the madcap adventures of the LeRoy Sisters in the final days of Vaudeville. Inspired by the audacity and struggles of historical figures such as the young Frances Gumm before she became Judy Garland, the Cherry Sisters who dodged many a rotten tomato, and Georgia Lee, the great “Lady of the Evening” on the Alaskan frontier, Canarsie Suite weaves a darkly contemporary tale of crisis and discovery through a side-splitting carnival of dance, song, knife throwing, acrobatic gorillas, and High Melodrama.