No Shame Theatre Archives (1989-90)
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KEY:
Author(s) - Title (Performers, if known)
- Numbered entries indicate the piece's position in the order.
- Bulleted entries - the exact order is unknown.
1989/90 No Shame (the event) Staff Breakdown
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Todd Ristau
GENERAL MANAGER: Cheryl Snodgrass
STAGE MANAGER: Doug Dawson
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Michael Stone
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Oliver Oertel
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Mark Johnson
No Shame Theatre, Inc. Board of Directors
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Todd Ristau
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Cheryl Snodgrass
MANAGING DIRECTOR: Frederick Norberg
LITERARY MANAGER: Stan Ruth
MARKETING DIRECTOR: Dave Guerdette
No Shame Board of Advisors
Scott Smith
Stuart Hoyle
Jack Halstead
Jeff Goode
James Finney
Ashley Runnels
No Shame Board of Trustees
Margaret Ristau
FOURTH SEASON - FALL SEMESTER '89
Friday, September 15, 1989
- [Outside on the steps]
The first No Shame of the semester.
Problem finding faculty advisor. Outside at 11:30 instead of 11.
[according to the Daily Iowan article
(9/15/89) the season opened tonight]
1) Libby Simeon
[Libby and Jeri Lynn dressed as Alfalfa and Darla respectively. Alfalfa sings She'll be comin round the mountain & she'll be driven; 3rd time audience sings along; Darla tapped & played with sparklers]
2) Mike Moran - Stan Guthrie - "Judas was a shepherd who couldn't recognize his flock from the flowers." - (monologue)
3) Larry Smith - Dougian Dialogue II "Light Wait Conversation"
4) Todd Ristau - scene 15 from Thunder Without Rain (Coyote & Old Woman)
5) Jim Woster - Untitled -
(performed by Jim Woster)
[Dr. Seuss piece.--it's a Amway salesman and a Jehovah's witness, each trying to bring the other over to his 'faith'.]
6) No Shame Dance Theatre - Premiere of NS Dancers
7) No Shame Singers
"I remember this particular No Shame -- it was outside on
the front "porch" of the theater building, and there
were only half a dozen pieces,
and [Woster's Seuss piece] was the standout of the evening,
performed to raving adulation to a crowd mostly of ISCA geeks.
It was during a weak period
for No Shame -- we rarely had a theater, the audience
topped out at maybe 40, and the docket was never full.
It was during the Cheryl years." --Tasha Robinson
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives; add'l notes from Tasha Robinson]
Friday, September 22, 1989
- [Theatre B]
back at normal time
1) No Shame Singers - Clothesline Saga by Robert Zimmerman
(Stuart Hoyle, Cheryl Snodgrass, Jennifer Johnson, Kim Berg, Sussane Thomas, Vicki (?), Brad Schnurr, Inger Hatlen, Laura Miller, Michael Moran, Mark Petrak, Hannah Gale, Jeri Lynn Schulke, Dave Guerdet, Michael Moran, Jeremy (?), Ashley Runnels)
2) Ashley Runnels - "Excuse me... excuse me, do you have the time?"
3) James Woster - Your Phone Friend
4) Chris Ragner (3 years) - "Three years?"
5) Dan Layne - no script in archives
6) Dan Coffey - Captain Agriculture
7) Garry Frank - A No-Shame Piece - "Suspend your dis-belief and, at least for the present moment, imagine that I, am a threee hundred pound water buffalo"
8) No Shame Dance Theatre - "As I was attempting to fall asleep last night, I noticed a small black spot in the corner of my spackled ceiling."
- (Music used: Pere Ubu "Arabia", Butthole Surfers "The Shaw Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave")
9) Chris Ragner (self-help) - group therapy session with Gerry the Evangelist who speaks on the Pentacrest
[This is probably the notorious powdered sugar piece
- pictured on the cover of The Drama Review - with Bob Cappel as Gerry the Evangelist.
The piece ends: "I say that if god ment for man to have mind altering drugs, he would have given them to us!!!!" (Cocaine is dumped from the rafters.)]
10) T-Bone w/ Craig Chesler & Brad Schnurr
[Carolyn's notes from this show:]
- Bob did something (sex on stage?)--the evangalist who had all that cocaine dumped on him
- Sounds like T-Bone was there asking questions
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives; add'l notes from Carolyn Jacobson]
Friday, September 29, 1989
[order missing]
Comments from PARTI (??):
- And for the performance, I can't say much because it was my first.
But for the lady who did the reading on the painter:
FUCK OFF BITCH
The lady in the red sweater. I'm pissed because i happen to be
military. And she only represented the horror side of the story!
There are many reasons for war, and many horrible consequences.
But i happen to believe that you have inalienable rights and i will
defend those rights for you even if i am maimed or killed. i will
do my best so that tif can perform at no shame, and bodie can listen
to Prince, and so T-bone can smoke and play his guitar. I will
put my life on the line so pretty girls can come to IOWA and meet study a profession, and even so
you can have long hair and and earring.
Be proud your an American!
(Sounds like she read some poems)
- NS Dancers with poetry being read
- It seems that no one liked anything that the so dubbed "lady in the red
sweater"said or did. I shall be brave, or stupid, only time will tell
which, and state openly that I thought her "Ode to a Blanket" was pretty
decent work.
- I missed a good chunck of No Shame but if THIS woman in the red sweater
did "Ode to a Blanket"-she is a playwrite in the workshop here.
********************
- 169 (of 828) PARADIGM Sep. 29, 1989 at 15:03
ATTENTION! I have skit for tonight, I need three people to help.
part 1 myself
part 2 person who can argue, as much talking as part 1
part 3 one or two lines
part 4 all you need to do is beable to fall down
Friday, October 6, 1989
- [Theatre B]
1) Tom Puckett - (2 person scene) - "Is there anyone you do like?"
2) Dan Layne - Flowers
3) Chris Mortika - A No Shame Theatre Card Trick (Chris Mortika, Janet McLarty, Jacob Hugart, 3 volunteeers, Ashley)
4) Van Man(tgem) - Ode to a Frat Boy
5) Peter Ullian - Love Letters (Straight From You Heart.)
6) Oster - "I was lying in bed about three in the morning" - (monologue)
7) White Lion - (A reading of White Lion dedicated to Graham Chapman while someone shaved while reader holds mirror)
8) (Garry) Frank & Kester
9) Steve Hives sound piece
10) Todd Ristau - A.M. Radio in Iowa...
11) Whiteney Tiffany - The Continuing Adventures of Rhonda and Bullwinky
12) T-Bone
- Some very very loud music piece (Korean music?) (Done by some woman teaching acting 1.
Maybe someone Korean. Who said that if the noise hurt people, he had succeeeded.)
- The Bullwinkle skit, (aka "Bullwinkie and Rhonda" )--by City High Students
- the only serious drama was Garry Frank's piece about the fight between the two
ex-friends
- "White Rap,"--by City high school kids
Friday, October 13, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) Oster, Woodworth & Rizzazza - "See that gerbil parachutist" song
2) Scene from The Gossage Vardebian Papers by Woody Allen - (performed by Garry Frank & Bob?)
3) Karla Maria Steffens - holy communion - "There is no hatred / like that for fat / women"
4) James Woster - The Value of Human Life in America or "I like the Ones with Frank Burns" (A Headache)
5) Johnson - "I love my scooter."
6) Oster & Woodworth - "You know, I always did like dancers." - (monologue)
7) Tom Puckett - "I love her in a way I love no other living creature on this earth." (she's my special little duck)
8) Perkins - Tom & Dick in the library
9) Peter Ullian - Adventures in the Necropolis, Part One - (monologue)
10) T-Bone & Napoleon
[SM's note: (Best Song Yet) - the one w/ Craig playing tempo/percussion on his guitar]
11) No Shame Dancers - (monologue about a one-hundred year old donut shop) - "The diameter of the earth is 7,926.41 miles."
Additional comments about tonight's show:
- First piece was someone (not T-Bone) singing
- Something with Garry Frank and Bob Cappel or One with Bob Cappel alone. Not sure which.
- Reference to a Chess by mail piece done by Gary Frank and Bob--actually a Woody Allen piece.
- Doughnut dance
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives; add'l notes from Carolyn Jacobson]
Friday, October 20, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) M. Moran - Stan Guthrie Quits Smoking - (monologue)
2) Ashley Runnels - Rent-a-Friend (#1)
3) Stuart Hoyle - A Patsy Kline Song
4) Peter Schtein (aka Rob Rotman) - Yep, you guessed it. Rob was back in town.
5) John Smick - Poison - (John Smick, Brooks [Peck?])
6) Jim Woster - MAW ---One--- "Are my temples flaring? - [monologue]
7) Whitney Tiffany - "Before I discovered Gloria Steinem, or Erica Jong, or the ERA, there was my grandmother." - [monologue]
8) T-Bone
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, October 27, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) Erin Jacobs - Large Research University
2) Shawn Brown - "Will there be any monsters upstairs tonight?" "Nope, not a one... Honey."
- [monologue; Shawn's piece about her father and the divorce]
3) Rochlin - "They held hands for the first time, and stared beyond the cliff on which they stood." - [eagle monologue]
4) Adam Whisner - Solar Elephants and a Duck presents "Our First Scene"
5) Cheryl Snodgrass (an adaptation) - Original by Stephen King
[Cheryl quoting from Stephen King's *Skeleton Crew* called "Paranoid: A Chant", the
monologue about the people watching her and the man with the electric ear surfacing in her toilet,
etc. That was also a Steven King poem.]
6) Hoyle - [song]
7) Garry Frank - Lambert and Skin Canoes
[Monologue--the one where his father came down with a knife]
8) Mark Rosenfeld - The Terminator Rap - (Performed by Bruce Vieira & Mark Rosenfeld)
9) Peter Ullian - War Story - [monologue]
10) Ian Charade (aka Chris Ragner) - Mother Courage (apparently a fake script submitted into the order)
[Snodgrass archives: "Note by S.M. - Ragner deliberately improvised this piece" ...
Carolyn archives: "Well, was it marijuana or what? I've heard conflicting reports: yes it was, that's why Cheryl
freaked, no it wasn't, Cheryl was upset because the guy was rambling off his script, yes, it smelled
like it, no, it didn't look like it, etc. --It's a piece about potsmoking. Not actually smoking it,
though. (Sounds like Cheryl getting mad was staged)"]
11) Jim Woster - MAW ---two--- "You know the Israeli Army?
12) T-Bone - no script in archives
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives; add'l notes from Carolyn's archives]
Friday, November 3, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) Ryan - A few thoughts on the afterlife:
[Piece with Dano, Denise, David (He was the first skit... the monologue about God, heaven, the nature of everything, etc.)]
2) McKenna/Ungar (Unger?) - "I don't like to wear my hair this long."
[the "hair" bit ("My whole family has thick hair") was a scene from the upcoming West Side Players production "Objective Love"]
3) Ashley Runnels - Beautiful Dance piece - (Ashley Runnels, Erin Q. Purcell, Michele Sohner, Vicki Smith, Sage Calloway, Susan Thomas, Kim Berg, Jennifer Johnson)
4) Vicki West - Vicki Sickels singing a great song
5) Jim Woster - MAW ---three--- "We are the girls who really are amazing" - (Marci Glotzer & Hannah Gale)
[piece with the ex-sor member and the batcaver at the deadwood]
6) John Yapp - Our Dead Fish - "My roommates got me a Siamese fighting fish for my birthday." - (monologue)
7) Dan Adkins & Greg Jackson - Two guys meet. They break into a barbershop number. They depart.
8) Sage Callaway - "I see the details of the room very clearly now in the merciless morning light." - (monologue)
9) Peter Ullian - Welfare Victims and the Conversion of a Conservative
10) Sharon - Satire On No Shame (Fuck Spiders Who Can't Swim)
11) Snodgrass/King - "Charles needed to go to the bathroom really badly."
(Cheryl Snodgrass, Greg Jackson, Hannah Gale, Mark Johnson, Jennifer Johnson, Ashley Runnels, Kim Berg.)
[Cheryl's Further attributions: I don't know how many people caught it, but Cheryl Snodgrass'
tiger skit... the kid trying to go to the bathroom without getting eaten by the tiger in the corner...
was word-for-word (less some editing) from a Steven King short story, "Here Be Tygers".
(_Skeleton Crew_) Rorschach assures me that the order list at the beginning of the evening
credited that to King/Snodgrass (or was it Snodgrass/King?) but I certainly didn't catch it, and
neither did the people behind us. A lot of people missed parts of the skit because they were
grumbling about the fact that she hadn't credited it properly.]
12) Dossarm (Dosset/Armknecht) - "The Entanglement"
13) No Shame Singers - "Our love is here to stay" - (Stuart Hoyle [vocals/piano], Cheryl Snodgrass [vocals], Marty [bass])
Additional comments about tonight's show:
- It was awesome 'cause of all the Really awesome pieces, "Sting, huh? Yea, I'd Fuck him".
"We never really accepted his death", The piano/Acoustic Bass "jam" session. The Dance
number.
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives; add'l notes from Carolyn's archives]
Friday, November 10, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) Gurler - "They say someone born at midnight has the power to see ghosts." - (monologue)
2) Wieholt - (Cheryl's note: A Wiehold piece brought in by Jim Thorne who promised me he would make me a photocopy of it. ... It was hot theatre.)
3) Woster - When You See Power... - C.E.O. of PowerBurger International - (monologue)
4) Steve Hives sound piece
5) Jeffrey Parsons, Cheryl Graeff, Cheryl Snodgrass collaboration - Promotion/Preview - Sweeny Syblings
- (performed by Cheryl Graeff & Jeffrey Parsons)
6) Cappel - "It began as many and many a morning had, lo these many years." - the giant kumquat of fresno - (monologue)
7) Thornton - Opal Bombgarthen Show
8) Hannah Gale - He and I
9) No Shame Dancers (G.A.) - "Well, look at this. I just found this on the floor. it looks like a safety pin."
10) Gwendolyn A. Link - Mockingbird - (Gwen Link)
11) Peter Ullian - Street of Dreams
12) No Shame Singers - "So what?"
Additional comments about tonight's show:
- Table Top Theater
- Sweeney Siblings - (performed by Cheryl Graeff & Jeffrey
Parsons)
[Something else about Siblings (my journal. Sweeny Siblings? Oh. I'm
remembering that this show happened in A, and that Cheryl Graef and some man did a take-off on
the Sweeny sisters skits on SNL--moving through the audience, singing show
tunes.)]
Friday, November 17, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) Frank - The Joke
2) Blaine Kelly - Love Disconnections
3) Jeff Goode - Cows (Greg Jackson, Chris Clarke, Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode)
4) Peter Ullian - The Battle of Lexington (with puppets, army men and a rat doll)
5) Sharon - The Newspaper Skit - (Performed by "Solar Elephants and a Duck")
6) Jacobs - "The phone rings while I am asleep. I answer it. It is my roommate's boyfriend. Again."
7) No Shame Players - The Exhibit (Jeff Goode, Erin Quinn Purcell, Greg Jackson, Michele Sohner, Ashley Runnels, Jennifer Johnson, Chris Clarke, Cheryl Snodgrass)
8) T-bone
9) Peter - Blind Date
10) Jeff Goode - Alien Recording (Chris Clarke, Jeff Goode)
11) Hives sound piece
12) Dan Layne - Warp Speed
13) Jewels Peter - Mini Mono - "I've got this window."
14) Chris Ragner - [script in the Cheryl's archives is called Lat for a Date, but this is apparently not the script he performed.]
15) Cheryl Snodgrass, Cheryl Graeff, Bruce Vieira, and Jeffrey Parsons - Sweeny Syblings - Week 2. They are Reunited.
[listed in the order as: "Skip Vieiro and the Sweeny Syblings"]
Friday, December 1, 1989
- [Theatre A]
1) Chris Mortika - The Water-Torture Card Trick of Death (Chris Mortika, Jacob Hugart, Shawn Entsminger)
2) SCHWA - Psychoactive - (Performed by SCHWA)
3) Vicki West - 2 songs
4) Erin Jacobs - SOLAR ELEPHANTS AND A DUCK presents "Basketball" and "Duck Attack"
5) Tom Puckett - "I'm not the only person they've done this to." - (monologue)
6a) Price and Ahrens - What's the Use?
6b) Jon Price - Gimme Distraction
7) Woster - CAMPUS REVIEW THEATRE presents "A Cold Warrior's Homecoming"
8) No Shame Puppet Theatre - "Twenty four skulls came into view as i came into the flowered room."
9) Peter Ullian - The Ghost of the '80's - (monologue)
10) Jon Price - Restless
Friday, December 8, 1989
- [Theatre A]
I think this one is the last of the semester.--Carolyn
1) T-Bone & Napoleon - !Cealo!
2) Runnels - "I want a Barbie Townhouse, a My Little Pony, and Operation, the Wacky Doctor's Game.. And if you don't get it for me I'm going to go live with Daddy."
(Characters listed [may have been the names of the actors]: Jennifer, Ashley, Kim, Margie, Greg, Kathy, Gwen, Stuart, Boss, Pamela)
3) Consigny - Cabbie
4) Chris Mortika - A Snappy Routine (aka A Snappy Die Card Routine) - (Chris Mortika, Jacob Hugart, K. Denniger [note: the script Chris submitted into the order lists Laurel Tenny as the 3rd actor; last minute cast change?])
5) Woster - Frosty - (monologue)
6) Scott Smith - The Flight of the Cheeseman: a Christmas show
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives; add'l notes from Carolyn Jacobson]
Now that we have the order from this show (12/8), I believe the following two memos from Carolyn may refer to another date ---Jeff:
- Musical at NS which I couldn't go to (Scott's Boy with No Skin?)
- If this was the last No Shame of the semester, then the big piece of the
night was Scott Smith's Revenge of the Killer Fat Girl which included Inger Hatlen,
Jim Thorn, Fred Norberg, Erin Quinn Purcell, Scott Smith, Margie DuBé and
many many others that I can't remember. But Scott would.
There was only one other piece that night.
FOURTH SEASON - SPRING SEMESTER '90
Friday, February 2, 1990
- [Theatre B]
Probably the first show of the semester
1) Jeff Goode - Cupid, Demigod of Love - (Rich Kurschner)
2a) Brett Ratner (words and music) - Here with me
2b) Kevin Higdon (music) & Brett Ratner (lyrics) - Looks to kill
3) Chris Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: A Linking Rings Routine - (Mortika, with female volunteer from the audience)
4) Ashley Runnels - cat chaperone - "So we were sitting there on the couch, his couch, watching MTV..." - (monologue)
5) Jeff Goode / Mark Rosenfeld - Ground Hogs Day - (Mark Rosenfeld, Jeff Goode; improv on Ground Hog's Day)
6) Adam Whisner (Solar Elephants and a Duck) - Kissing the World Daily - "At first glance she looked like a soft shelled turtle." - (monologue)
7) E. Jacobs - "I found this the other day in the garbage can at Kinko's Copies. Poppy Lou! Poppy Lou!" - (monologue)
8) Locke Barrows (Neveu) - "Earth's Wake"
9) John Smick - Fruitcake - (John Smick)
10) Peter Ullian - Dream Dancing
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, February 9, 1990
- [Theatre B]
1) James Ball - Suitcase
2) Laura Quinn - "I used to sell AVON."
[according to Laura, her first ever piece at No Shame was a piece about shaving her legs]
3) Adam Whisner (music by Joe Satriani) - Strange & The Journal
[Probably a Solar Elephants and a Duck piece; includes the first of the recurring person-writing-in-journal scenes]
4) Peter Ullian - Maximum Leadership
5) Todd Ristau - $80 a week
6) Locke Barrows (Neveu) - Is Love
7) T-bone and Napoleon sing
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, February 16, 1990
- [Theatre B]
1) Garry Frank - I Am A Film Student
2a) Solar Elephants and a Duck (Steckel) - Animals Waking Up.
2b) Solar Elephants and a Duck (Steckel) - Diary Sketch
3) Jacqueline Comito - "Oh my god, ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod...I have got to tell you what has happened to me."
4) Garry Frank - Forgotten Gods (a.k.a. The Charades Plug)
5) Jacqueline Comito - "Boy have I been having this dream." - (monologue)
6) Jacqueline Comito - "I met an old man when I was sixteen..." - (monologue)
7) Todd Ristau - letter from his uncle
8) Ashley Runnels - "The other day I passed this woman as I was walking down the street." - (Ashley Runnels)
9) Stuart Hoyle
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, February 23, 1990
- [Theatre B]
1) Honn - Shallow Roots, Bald Tires
2) Jacqueline Comito - no script in archives
3) Katzen - "Good evening, tonight I'd like to talk about the Fruedian Lip - slip - panties - SLIP!"
4) Garry Frank - ICBM Tracking For Fun and Profit
5a) Jacobs (Solar Elephants and a Duck) - Two guys are standing on the street and talking to each other. - "Isn't it annoying when somebody says hello to you and you can't remember who they are?"
5b) Jacobs (Solar Elephants and a Duck) - A person comes out onstage with a journal...
6) Smick/Wasson - Attack - (In-Home Acupuncture Kit)
7) Todd Ristau - The panel discussion
8) Moran - Hitch Hiking - (monologue)
9) Norberg/Ristau - The Chemist Dreams
(Todd Ristau, Melissa, Heather, Laura Quinn, ?, ?, ?, Michael Stone, Dave Guerdet, Rich Kirschner, Mark Johnson, ?, ?, ?, Fred Norberg)
10) Christopher Calandro - The life and death of an American guitar by Christopher Calandro & Courtney Pierce-1987 - (monologue)
11) Peter Ullian - Sharkey's Town, Part One: Sharkey Says. - (monologue)
12) Locke Barrows (with acknowledgements to Brett Neveu) - Love didn't arrive, so Murder took her place, a performance poetry piece
13) Todd Ristau - Rocky and Bullwinkle - (Todd Ristau, Fred Norberg)
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, March 2, 1990
- [Theatre B]
1) Chris Mortika - A Magical Omnibus presents: Omnibus Mailbag - (Chris Mortika, Jacob Hugart, Ann Schumacher)
2) Peter Ullian - Sharkey's Town, Part Two: Charlie Does the Job.
3) Ruth Gila Berger - Creative - (monologue)
4) Hoyle - Frank Dead Yet
[Mark and Bob wait for Frank (played by an audience member) to die. Not typical of Stuart Hoyle's pieces, but that's what the evidence seems to indicate.---Jeff]
5) Flaude Merch (aka Scott Smith) - Mighty Winnebagos - (monologue)
6) Locke Barrows (with acknowledgements to Brett Neveu) - The Ashen Fear of Toothy Green, performance poetry piece #2
7) John Smick & Brooks Peck
[Random juggling until all the clubs (pins) are on the floor, ending with the words: "Infinity Sports Coupe...test drive one today."]
8) Laura Quinn - Big Top Blues
9) Stuart Hoyle sings "Moving Day"
10) T-Bone & Napoleon sing & give answers
11) Grinnel Improv Troupe - (Introducing - the Grinnell troupe - An Improv troupe - 45 minute show)
12) Todd Ristau
[Ristau as the Joker - "If you think this is art... wait'll next week"]
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, March 9, 1990
- [Theatre B]
1) Jacqueline Comito - 49 asides for a tragic theatre - (Hamomlet or What Ophelia Might Have Said)
2) Jacobs - "Oh, Government / Oh, Government / the structure of our Nation" - (poem)
3) Chris Mortika - One Cup, Three Balls (Kris Denniger, Shawn Entsminger)
4) Darren Rynell - Ali Abdul's Hostage Hut
5) Garry Frank - Crutch - (monologue)
6) John Smick - no script in archives
7) Smith - no script in archives
8) Link - no script in archives
9) Rynell - no script in archives
10) Ristau - no script in archives
11) Elvis Jones (Ullian) - no script in archives
12) Quinn - no script in archives
13) Cappel - no script in archives
14) Jeff Goode - Hair (Erin Quinn Purcell, Jeff Goode)
15) Lane - no script in archives
16) T-bone and Napoleon - no script in archives
[SOURCE: order from Cheryl Snodgrass archives]
Friday, March 30, 1990
- [Theatre B]
[This was the show videotaped for the Take One piece on IPTV]
1) Todd Ristau - The Luck of the Dead - (Stanton Dossett, Todd Ristau)
2) John Smick - Mail Call
3) Scott Smith - Iowa Song (Greg Jackson, Cheryl Snodgrass, Jim Thorn, Scott Smith [piano]...)
4) Darrin Reinoehl (or Rynell?) - Appalachin New Age
5) Elvis Jones (Ullian)
[The song I sang was my own, and it was either my cult classic, "I Know What To Do And I
Don't Tell You Want To Do, So Don't Tell Me," or "You May Be A Poet--Well, So What?" I
don't remember. The latter song contained my favorite lines I've ever written: "A poet can't
necessarily/Pick up girls/A poet doesn't usually/Rule the world/A poet can write poetry and/That's
about it/Yeah, just 'cause you're a poet/Doesn't mean/That you're hot shit!" ---Peter]
6) Karen Holman - (Losing My Virginity to Archy Hoover at the Humiliating Age of 21)
7) Locke Barrows (with acknowledgements to Brett Neveu) - It's Death --, performance poetry piece #3 - (Oliver Oertel, Cheryl Graeff, Karla Steffens and Brett Neveu) - "It's death" / "Didn't think it'd be this dark"
8) Scott Smith - Bad Day At The Beach: Part Two, The Sequel - (Jim Thorn, Margie DuBe, Jennifer Shepard, Todd Ristau, Jeff Goode... others???)
9) Jeff Goode - Commando Wombat Theatre -
(Jeff Goode, Brad Schnurr, Erin Purcell, Inger Hatlen, Jewels Peter, Greg Jackson, Darren Rynell....and others)
10) T-Bone - T-Bone gets a haircut (Rich Kirschner, Craig Chesler, Diana Dawson)
11) B.O. Ltd. (Brett & Oliver) - Nude
12) Peter Ullian - Street of Dreams
13) Jeff Goode - Dead Panther - Talking Parrot - (Greg Jackson, Jewels Peter, ...and many more)
14) Ristau - no script in archives
15) Johnson - no script in archives
[Webmaster's notes: It's possible that both Bad Day at the Beach and
Bad Day At The Beach: Part Two, The Sequel
were performed at this show in the #8 slot.]
Friday, April 6, 1990
(order missing)
Friday, April 13, 1990
(order mostly missing):
1) Chris Mortika - Spiritual Manifestations Club (Maria Bona, Nigel Ray, Ed McGuire [flute])
Best of No Shame
Friday & Saturday, April 20 & 21, 1990
- [Mabie Theater]
[Order from Brett Neveu]
[Lookie what I found in my file cabinet. It's the ORDER from BONS April 20 & 21! Here's
what I have. I don't have piece names, I just have the names from this here list:]
- Magical Omnibus
- Merch
- Woster
- Quinn
- Stephens
- Runnels
- Solar Elephants & a Duck
- --Roeroehl - (Saturday Only)
- Rosenfeld
- Smith
- Link
- Bad Day at the Beach
- Smick
- No Shame Singers
- --Roeroehl - (Saturday Only)
- Barrows - Earth's Wake by Locke Barrows with consideration to Brett Neveu
- Ristau
- Ullian
- T-Bone
- Ristau
[Webmaster's notes: Ristau remembers performing $80 a week at Best of No Shame. Since the piece debuted Feb 1990, it was probably this BONS
rather than the show in the fall, as original thought.]
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES - [1989-90]:
(Dates unknown:)
- Scott Smith - Bad Day At The Beach
[I think this piece and its sequel were both performed on March 30th, because I'm pretty sure Todd Ristau & I played the two muscle guys ---Jeff]
- Hannah Gale - Eyes
[script in Cheryl's archives for '89-'90 dated: "University of Iowa 1990";
Is it possible this was performed as part of, or near the same time as He and I, which bears the same date at the top, but was actually performed 11/10/89?]
- [author unknown (Mike Moran?)] - Another piece of lost hope and waste life - "The History of the World. Chapter 137." -
(Man tries to finish a manuscript before his execution)
[script in Cheryl's archives for '89-'90
]
- [author unknown] - 2 characters: John & Francois - "They're just school girls"
[page from a script in Cheryl's archives for '89-'90]
- [author unknown] - Half a Man
[script in Cheryl's archives for '89-'90]
- Todd Ristau - A Case of Conflict
(Todd Ristau, Stan Ruth)
[according to Todd, this was performed in 1989-90
]
Continue on to Fall 1990