Pics from CYRANO A-GO-GO at the 2019 Elgin Fringe Fest

All photos of Brad McEntire performing Cyrano A-Go-Go at the 2019 Elgin Fringe Festival at the Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, IL. Photo Credit for all pics: Joshua Smith

Announcing CYRANO A-GO-GO at the 2019 Theatre Crude Fringe Fest

Cyrano A-Go-Go is an exploration of one restless theatre artist's fascination with the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. A chance encounter with the script at a suburban library at the age of fifteen leads McEntire into a wonderful, and sometimes elusive, calling. Mixing the personal, historical and literary into a journey through Rostand's play McEntire puts a funny, warm, insightful spin on the usual coming-of-age one-man show.
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Friday, September 27 at 10:00 pm
Saturday, September 28 at 1:00pm

Playing at the...
The Capital View Event Center,
5201 N Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73105
[Map HERE]

Tickets $15 and can be purchased... online HERE or at the door.

More Info... HERE

Announcing CYRANO A-GO-GO at the 2019 Elgin Fringe Festival

Cyrano A-Go-Go is an exploration of one restless theatre artist's fascination with the 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. A chance encounter with the script at a suburban library at the age of fifteen leads McEntire into a wonderful, and sometimes elusive, calling. Mixing the personal, historical and literary into a journey through Rostand's play McEntire puts a funny, warm, insightful spin on the usual coming-of-age one-man show.

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Thursday, September 12 at 7:30pm

Friday, September 13 at 9pm

Saturday, September 14 at 10:30pm

Sunday, September 15 at 4:30pm

Side Street Studio Arts, located at 15 1/2 Ziegler Ct, Elgin, IL 60120

Tickets $10

Info... HERE

Pics from CYRANO A-GO-GO

CYRANO A-GO-GO wins Best of Fest

Brad McEntire in Cyrano A-Go-Go

‘The Spark,’ ‘I’ll Regret This Tomorrow,’ ‘Cyrano-A-Go-Go’ win Best of Loop awards 
by Nancy Churnin | DallasNews.com | March 15, 2015 

Out of the Loop passholders selected the three Best of Loop winners at WaterTower Theatre’s 2015 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival: The Spark for the main stage, Cyrano-A-Go-Go for the Stone Cottage and I’ll Regret This Tomorrow for the Studio space. The results were announced by WaterTower Theatre Sunday on the final day of the 10-day festival. 

Each has deep local roots. 

The Spark, a world premiere about a father who tells imaginative stories to his daughter, was WaterTower’s entry in its festival and was directed and written by Kelsey Leigh Ervi, who co-produced the festival with WaterTower’s artistic director Terry Martin. 

Cyrano-A-Go-Go, a monologue about the historical impact of the play, Cyrano de Bergerac, and what it meant to an impressionable young teenager who checked it out of a local library, was the second win in a row for Dallas-based Audacity Theatre Lab and Brad McEntire, the writer and star of the one-man show. 

I’ll Regret This Tomorrow offers a witty cabaret act by New York-based Tori Scott, who grew up in Arlington and wove stories of performing at Theatre Arlington into a performance backed by a three-person band.

Original post... HERE

CYRANO A-GO-GO in the Dallas Observer

Brad McEntire in Cyrano A-Go-Go

Some Strong Solo Turns at WaterTower's 14th Out of the Loop Festival 
By Elaine Liner | Tue., Mar. 10 2015 | DallasObserver.com 

Unrequited love, that hard right to the heart, that sharp cut to the gut, has inspired two good new solo shows by local actor-writers Van Quattro and Brad McEntire. Quattro's Standing 8 Count and McEntire's Cyrano A-Go-Go were audience faves on the opening weekend of the 14th annual Out of the Loop theater festival at Addison's WaterTower Theatre. 

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Cyrano A-Go-Go also uses lost love as a theme, weaving in the history of Edmund Rostand's timeless play about the big-nosed romantic who is so insecure around women. Cyrano speaks his passionate thoughts through a handsome (but dumb) surrogate. McEntire unmasks his own hard lessons as a young performer, romantically and professionally. "Unrequited love was, by default, my love of choice," he says at the top of the one-hour show, presented in casual lecture format. 

McEntire acts some of the loveliest bits of Rostand's original Cyrano, occasionally digressing to discuss other topics. He refers to the "optimal experience" and the "flow" of true happiness, which McEntire says he felt as a high school kid in Carrollton, plucking Cyrano de Bergerac off a library shelf and reading it twice in one afternoon. 

"It takes a big-hearted character actor to play Cyrano," McEntire says in his play. And a man who's felt some heartbreak, too. (This one produced by Audacity Theatre Lab goes on again at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13; and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 15, in the Stone Cottage at WaterTower.) 

 Out of the Loop Festival continues through March 15 at WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Rd., Addison. Tickets, $10 per show, 972-450-6232. 

Original article... HERE

CYRANO A-GO-GO at OOtL

CYRANO A-GO-GO is an exploration of one restless theatre artist's fascination with the swashbuckling 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. A chance encounter with the script at a suburban public library at the age of 15 leads to a cruel and wonderful calling. Presented as an old-school oration the piece mixes the personal, historical and literary into a journey through Rostand's play.McEntire presents a funny, warm, insightful meditation on the nature of theatricality, the nobility of personal identity and the hard-won lessons of love, unrequited and otherwise. 

Playing as part of the 2015 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival 
 WaterTower Theatre at the Addison Theatre Centre 
Stone Cottage Theatre 
15650 Addison Road, 
Addison, TX 75001 

Saturday March 7 – 5:00 pm 
Friday March 13 – 7:30 pm 
Sunday March 15 – 7:30 pm 

TICKETS: Single tickets to all events go on sale Feb. 24. Festival Passes, now on sale, include one admission to each Festival event and are $65. WaterTower Theatre subscribers receive $10 off each Festival pass. Individual ticket prices for each event are $10 or $15. 

More ticket information at 972-450-6232 or via email at: boxoffice@watertowertheatre.org 

More info... HERE

Pics from CYRANO A-GO-GO in Houston

First off, the folks at the Houston Fringe were very hospitable. The most welcoming group we at Audacity have come across in a long while. The festival was not very big (it is still growing), but a good time was had by all and some good theatre was put on. 

One small note: the venue that CYRANO A-GO-GO was in ended up being an outdoor "stage." Or should I say PATIO! The original costume of a full black suit was whittled down over the next few performances to a more casual attire due to the 96 degree heat.

CYRANO A-GO-GO at 2012 Houston Fringe

Brad McEntire will be presenting his "original oration" CYRANO A-GO-GO at the Houston Fringe Festival this weekend. Here's the deets:

A note about the piece:

Since the age of fifteen, during the first few weeks of his first ever theatre class, Brad McEntire has been obsessed with the swashbuckling, romantic, tragicomic play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand. In this original oration, McEntire explores his fascination with Rostand’s play from many angles: historical, literary and personal. Through this exploration, CYRANO A-GO-GO reflects McEntire’s own life-long coming-to-terms with the hard lessons about how art imitates life, and vice versa...

A note about the oration format:

Oration, in which a single speaker takes the stage to discuss a given topic, was a well-known format from the mid-1800s through the mid-1900s. A cross between a theatrical performance, lecture and staged reading, the form was made popular by such orators as Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain. This presentation is a contemporary take on this format.

When:

Thursday, September 6th at 7 PM

Friday, September 7th at 7 PM

Saturday, September 8th at 8:30 PM

Where:

Bohemeo's Cafe and Theatre,
708 Telephone Road,
Houston, TX 77023

As part of the Houston Fringe Festival.

For tickets head HERE.

CYRANO A-GO-GO Houston Fringe venue

Exact times to come, but CYRANO A-GO-GO will play at... 
Bohemeo's Cafe and Theatre, 
708 Telephone Road, 
Houston, TX 77023
September 6-8, 2012 as part of the Houston Fringe Festival.

CYRANO A-GO-GO goes to Houston

McEntire performing his solo "oration" CYRANO A-GO-GO

Here at Audacity we are pleased as punch that some of the shows we've developed over the last few years are getting out to a variety of audiences at festivals around the country. We have just received word that Brad McEntire's solo "Oration" CYRANO A-GO-GO has been invited to the 5th Annual Houston Fringe Festival.

The festival runs August 30-September 15, 2012. More exact performance dates and times as details come in.

The text, monsieur, the text...

CYRANO A-GO-GO excerpt "The Text, Monsieur..." from FT Bonnigan on Vimeo.

CYRANO A-GO-GO mentioned in D Magazine Blog

McEntire performing CYRANO A-GO-GO

Audacity Offers a Companion to ‘Cyrano’

D Magazine's FrontRow Blog

Author: By Peter Simek

Post date: June 23rd, 2011 9:30am

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Shakespeare Dallas kicked off its summer season with a play not by the Elizabethan playwright, but rather Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. As Kris Noteboom writes on TheaterJones, Cyrano is also the favorite play of Audacity Theatre Labs’s Brad McEntire, and in conjunction with the Shakespeare Dallas run, McEnire is presenting his Cyrano A-Go-Go at the Green Zone. From the TJ piece:

Throughout the hour-and-15-minute piece, McEntire delivers more of the history from his favorite play whilst tying it in with events from his own life in an engaging, educational experience sure to enrich the impact of Cyrano.
During the oration, McEntire recounts the nerve-wracked opening night and the subsequent two hour standing ovation, the conundrum of being the brother-like guy friend, and the impact of the play on his pursuit of theater.
The whole of the piece is well-organized, jumping from past to present, from fiction to fact, between his life and Cyrano’s with great aplomb. There’s never a dull moment, and the experience will not only augment your appreciation for Rostand’s masterpiece, but the theater and arts in general, with an interesting bit of history thrown in.

CYRANO A-GO-GO has begun!

McEntire has opened his new solo show, an "oration" on Cyrano de Bergerac and how the piece has impacted his life. Info on this "free" show here.

Also, a swell essay by McEntire has recently run on TheaterJones.com about the opening night of Cyrano in 1897. Check it out here.

Nice mention of CYRANO A-GO-GO on Neighborsgo.com. Check it out here.

CYRANO A-GO-GO

Brad McEntire presents a new monologue coinciding with the Shakespeare Dallas production of the Rostand play this summer!

CYRANO A-GO-GO is semi-autobiographical exploration of one restless theatre artist's fascination with the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. A chance encounter with the script at a suburban public library at the age of 15 leads to a cruel and wonderful calling. Mixing the personal, historical and literary into a journey through Rostand's play and the behind-the-scenes story of it's creation. McEntire puts a funny, warm, insightful spin on the usual coming-of-age one-man show.

Plays Saturday afternoons at 3 PM from June 18 to July 9, 2011.
At the Green Zone, 161 Riveredge Drive, Dallas, TX 75207 (map)

Admission FREE! (though suggested donation of $5-10 is appreciated)

CYRANO A-GO-GO: Study Guide up

Wanna bone up on your Cyrano de Bergerac in anticipation of ATL's CYRANO A-GO-GO or maybe the Shakespeare Dallas production of Cyrano this summer?

Here's your chance! We've put up a handy dandy study guide on the Audacity website HERE.

Knowledge for all! Theatre for all!

CYRANO A-GO-GO promo

Cyrano A-Go-Go Promo from FT Bonnigan on Vimeo.