Vermont Vaudeville has worked with over 83 guest acts in 21 different theaters and created 23 brand new productions, reaching many thousands of people throughout Vermont.
FALL – Experimenting with venues, Vermont Vaudeville puts up the Reap What You Sow Harvest Season Vaudeville Show at the Lamb Abbey (now defunct) in Montpelier. They try the Hyde Park Opera House, and return to the Hardwick Town House. The Gorilla joins the core cast. Guest artists include: Daniel Forlano, Melissa Knowles, Al Mireault, Dolly Wagglers.
2010
SPRING – Vermont Vaudeville in 3-D. rolls out at the Hardwick Town House, their new home. Tickets are by donation. Guest acts include: Dan Berkley, Michael Trautman.
SPRING – Electricity, Vermont Vaudeville’s 5th production, plays at the Hardwick Town House. Vermont Vaudeville produces Michael Trautman’s show Head in the Clouds. Guest acts include: The Yo-Yo People, The Outsiders, Kelsey Strauch, Rip Keller.
FALL – When it Rains it Pours is Vermont Vaudeville’s first completely sold out show at the Hardwick Town House. After this capacity show, Vermont Vaudeville and the Town House board remove seats in the balcony so that you can see the stage from every seat. Otto Muller joins the core cast as official pianist. Guest acts include: Dave Cox, Ben Matchstick, Dolly Wagglers.
WINTER – Vermont Vaudeville tries its first winter show at the Orleans Municipal Building and decides never to do a pre-holiday show again.
2012
SPRING – After starting the season off with a show at the Montgomery Grange Hall, Vermont Vaudeville decides to set official ticket prices and offers 2 nights of shows at the Hardwick Town House! Perfect Harmony reaches about 450 people. Guest acts include: Rob Mermin, Melissa Knowles, Tom Murphy.
FALL – In Four More Yearsthe Hardwick Town House audience reelects Vermont Vaudeville. Guest acts include: Alakazam, Red Wing Puppet Theater, Shanty Town, Lindsay McCaw.
SUMMER – The Jewish Community of Greater Stowe (JCOGS) produces Vermont Vaudeville’s first summer-time show. The show is a great success.
FALL – Vermont Vaudeville introduces the Saturday matinee to the Hardwick Town House weekend. Hurry Up & Wait sells out both evening shows and earns Vermont Vaudeville it’s first standing ovation at the end of the show. Guest acts include: Waldo & Woodhead, Gregory Corbino, Jason Hicks, Amanda Huotari, Fritz Grobe.
2014
WINTER – Receiving a grant from the Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Vaudeville embarks on an ambitious winter tour, receives a lot of press, and sells out shows around the state. Theaters include: Barton Memorial Building, Haybarn Theater, Flynn Space, New England Youth Theater, Big Picture Theater, Town Hall Theater, Tupelo Music Hall, Bellows Falls Middle School Auditorium, and Old Castle Theater. Guest acts include: Wacky Chad, Melissa Knowles, Yo-Yo People, Stephen Stearns, Tom Murphy, Michael Trautman, Alakazam, Brin Schoellkopf, Cavan & Jan Meese.
SPRING – Red Tape premieres at the Hardwick Town House. 750 people see the show. Guest acts include: Roderick Russell.
FALL – Vermont Vaudeville begins to coordinate with local food trucks to provide more dinner options preshow in Hardwick. What Goes Up rocks the Hardwick Town House. Guest acts include: The Fourth Wall, Magic Brian, Nigel Blackstorm, Palmer Jordan.
2015
SPRING – Vermont Vaudeville (untitled show) sells out two evening shows at the Hardwick Town House and has a good showing in Stowe at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center. Guest acts include: Olivia Weinstein, Eric Bates, Jonathan Burns.
FALL – Receiving a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Vaudeville is able to offer its first Bus-in School show for students in the northeast. Autopilot brings 1200 people to the Hardwick Town House. The Gorilla is finally revealed. Guest acts include: Hilary Chaplain, Jacob Sharpe, Greg Jukes, Tim Nisbet.
2016
WINTER – Working with Essex Junction Parks & Rec Vermont Vaudeville puts on a show at Essex High School Auditorium for over 300 people. Guest acts include: Thom Wall, Olivia Weinstein.
SUMMER – Vermont Vaudeville partners with Festival of Fools to put on a show at Contois Auditorium in Burlington. Guest acts include: Derek Derek, Galumpha, Snap Boogie.
WINTER – A sold out show and a standing ovation at the Barton Memorial Building. Vermont Vaudeville is part of Rusty DeWees’ Winter Star Series at Stowe Town Hall. Guest acts include: Chloe Walier, Rusty DeWees.
SPRING – Due to high demand a Thursday evening show is added for Password, Please:_. Guest acts include: Cate Great, Vermont Vaudeville Youth Core.
FALL – Vermont Vaudeville opens Too Much Information with ‘Front Porch Forum, The Musical.’ $4733 is donated to the Hardwick Town House and to hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Guest acts include: Rob Torres, Ragtime Shepard Kings Trio.
WINTER – Vermont Vaudeville appears at First Night North: New Year’s Eve celebrations in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
2018
SPRING – Mum’s the Word, Vermont Vaudeville’s first Mother’s Day show, has a record attendance–over 1500 people. This show brings live rescue dogs on the Town House stage. The Gorilla is also a part of the show. Guest acts include: Mutts Gone Nuts and Sam Malcolm.
SUMMER – Vermont Vaudeville wins Seven Daysies: Best Comedy Troupe in Vermont award.
FALL – Vermont Vaudeville performs at Northern Vermont University’s Dibden Hall in Johnson to hundreds of students. Then a week later, to celebrate Vermont Vaudeville’s 20th production at the Hardwick Town House and 10 years of shows, for the first time VV offers two weekends of events. Who Wants to be a Vaudevillianaire? kicks off the celebrations with an anything goes local talent show with 16 acts hosted by Charlie and Margaret and with special celebrity judge appearances by Charlie’s Mom, Rob Mermin, the Gorilla, and Marco. The following weekend is the full show, 10 Years Later, featuring the co-winners of WWTBV and a brand new back drop. Guest acts included: Jan Damm, Gabriel Roberts, Eva Goodwin & Ezra Schenck, Dr. Professor A. Nonnamis, The Red Trouser Show, Greg Jukes, and 14 other local talents.
2019
SPRING – The Cream of the Crop is VV’s first show to focus on agriculture. It features a real live tap dancing cow, a giant toilet, a catapulting cabbage, answers burning questions about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup heist, and of course ends with a nearly full-cast juggle. A celebration of Vermont agriculture indeed. Behind the scenes, Audrey Grant joins the team as Tech Director and Arlyn Bruccoli takes over Front of House and Box Office. Guest acts include: Coventry & Kaluza and Mike Wood.
FALL – That’s Impossible sells out all four shows at the Hardwick Town House and has the most “tech” in a show to date. Projectors, pulleys, large props, live action in the house, per-recorded interactive content, and many microphones make this a very challenging show behind the scenes but from where the audience sits, it goes off without a hitch . Guest acts include: Kaethe Hostetter, PogoFred and Billy Kidd.
2020
SPRING – Vermont Vaudeville’s Spring show, and 23rd production, scheduled for May 7, 8, 9 is canceled due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of one large show, VV’s founders and core cast produce over an hour of online content, with several Vermont viral successes, and performed over 50 mini family-sized physically distant curbside shows for the local community.
FALL – Our 23rd production, Hindsight Is So 2020, plays eight beautiful outdoor shows on the lawn at Highland Center for the Arts during peak foliage for sold out, socially-distant, mask wearing crowds. Guest acts include: Ariele Ebacher, Jan Damm, and Timo Damm.
