The LeRoy Sisters
"The LeRoy Sisters" were a dynamic comic clown duo that grew out of the unravelling vaudeville sister act chronicled in the company's production, Canarsie Suite: At the Edge of Vaudeville. Although they claimed to be world famous in Newark and Elk Horn, Indiana, they never made it to the end of a performance without disaster overtaking the stage.
"The LeRoy Sisters" performed short acts across the experimental NYC Variety Arts scene - and in dive bars, music clubs, and sidewalks from Jacksonville, FL to Brighton, England. The duo also hosted riotous "Vaudeville Noir" cabarets at multiple venues in Brooklyn and took a touring show, with three other NYC-based clown artists, to the American South.
PERFORMANCES
(selected)
September 2011
Opening Clown Cabaret Hosts
Amuse Bouche Clown Festival
Brick Theater, Brooklyn
August 2011
Trav S.D.'s American Vaudeville Theatre
45Bleeker, NYC
May 2011
Dixon Place, NYC
January 2011
Bindlestiff Variety Show
Galapagos, NYC
December 2010
Cabaret Hosts
Dead Herring Holiday Cabaret, Brooklyn
November, 2010
The LeRoy Sister's Thanksgiving Spectacular
HiHo Lounge, New Orleans
The Underbelly, Jacksonville, FL
September 2010
Clown Cabaret Hosts
NY International Clown Theatre Festival
Brick Theater, Brooklyn
June 2010
Kraine Theater, NYC
May 2010
Comedy in Dance Festival
Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn
October 2009
Newark Theatre, Newark, NJ
May 2009
Voodoo Vaudeville, Brighton, UK
April 2009
Webster Hall, NYC
Drom, NYC
March 2009
The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn
January 2009
The Slipper Room, NYC
September 2008
Brick Theater, Brooklyn
"Where can both culturally elite and creatively uncouth broker peace before a stage filled with ukuleles, corsets, back flips and gorillas (while still avoiding felony charges)? In these barren times, it can be tough to procure such spicy jollies. Have no fear – The LeRoy Sisters are a pair of salacious pseudo-siblings who have raised the bar on neovaudeville psychodrama...
The Big Apple-based LeRoy Sisters are really the chimerical children of Aimee German (Gladys) and Jennifer Sargent (Birdie) – two highly talented performers as skilled at song and dance as they are at death-defying acrobatics and knife-throwing.”
- Jacksonville Folio Weekly
"It was interesting to us to realize that the limited roles that women had in the late 19th century were mostly mother, domestic worker or prostitute. As clowns, we wanted to explore and mock these ideas."
- Aimee German, Co-Creator
CREDITS
Conceived/ Co-Created by
Aimee German and Jennifer Sargent
Featuring
Aimee German and Jennifer Sargent
Music Composed/ Arranged and Performed by
Tony Melone