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Did You Resolve to See More Of Me This Year?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:06:51 GMT

If you resolved this year to treat yourself well, have more fun, see more friends, meet cool new people, then Original Cyn is the place for you. The same is true if you resolved to drink more, see more naked girls, and lose weight (hey, pole dancing is great exercise!)

Original Cyn is extra sinful with Metal Monday's NIK SIN hosting the insanity! You've had four whole days to recover from New Years Eve, now it's time to break in your new resolutions with performances by

JENNY C'EST QUOI
JEZEBEL TWIST
MISS MARY CYN
ROSIE 151

Where will this amazing night take place? 10pm at the Lucky 13 Saloon of course! 273 13th Street, right off 5th avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. F train to 4th and 9th stop, and walk just a few short blocks for a FREE show and notorious after party.

See you there!

Original Cyn Burlesque is produced by Miss Mary Cyn and Joe the Shark.

Resolutions/goals/whatever

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:54:33 GMT

Things I want to do in 2010

Paint more: There's a series I started years ago and want to finish and put on display in 2012/13. To do this I'll have to finish an average of one painting every two months. It won't be easy but I think I can do it.

Keep taking better care of myself: More veggies, more baths, more exercise. I'm trying to frame this all as luxury. Delicious veggie recipes welcome!

Make more/better money: Smitty recently became a freelancer (anyone looking for small business advice, let me know!) so money is a bit more of a concern than it already was. BUT I've been getting booked for better paying side gigs. Slipper Room has me booked three times this month and I'm shooting giant porn again in a couple weeks. I've also started shooting with RV again and taken on a more steady domming client. In the meanwhile I'm interviewing people about different industries I'm interested in and hoping that leads to a day job that I actually enjoy *fingers crossed*

Spend less time on the internet: Or at least less time mindless clicking back and forth from e-mail to twitter to lj to facebook. There are better things to do with my time, I'm pretty sure of it.

My goal for writing is to get the novel polished and start querying agents. I'm also going to try and write and submit as many short stories as I can. If you know of good places to fins call for submissions, let me know.

My goal for performing is to continue diversifying. I'm getting better at storytelling and doing it has made my teaching/public speaking better. It also helps inspire those short stories I was talking about. I'm burlesquing a good amount and am trying to force myself to do less new acts in favor of creating more polished costumes and less stress. Since I'm now performing in actual light it's time to invest in more lavish costumes and sparkleies.

I would like to say I'll post more but that really mostly depends on how my job situations pan out. I'll do my best darlings!

Quotes:

Jo Boobs: Today makes sense now! I love blaming things on my body. Anyone have a tampon?
Minnie Tonka: I do! This was Nasty Canasta's tampon.
Jo: Is it used? Is it signed?!
Quotes:

2009 Review

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:44:13 GMT

My LJ has not been nearly as detailed as it has been in previous years so I'll have to give you the broad strokes.

At the start of the year I was unemployed, broke, scared, not really sure what the hell to do with my life. But I was also working on a novel... yeah, that's pretty much it.

BUT I got a crappy job and then a slightly less crappy job.

I started storytelling and performing OMG SO MUCH burlesque. I performed in burlesque shows, parties, clubs, fundraisers, warehouses, a wedding, Paddles, a book launch, cony island and probably other places that I can't think of. OH! Most notably, I performed at the Slipper Room, which is pretty much the only well known burlesque venue in the city (Except for maybe The Box and I've only heard...um... less than favorable things about it.)

I created and performed a full length solo show with the help of Cyndi Freeman and Peter Aguero. The audience LOVED it and I'll be performing it again in January.

I finished the first draft of the novel. Now to work on revisions and short stories.

I taught at TES Fest, TES, and in Chicago. Will look into teaching more because, hot damn, I really dig it and the last time I taught I knocked it out of the goddamn park. I'm still keeping my toes in the kink world, doing modeling and sessions here and there. I'm not much for public play at the moment. Still not sure how I feel about that. I just took on a regular client, which I'm very jazzed about and a former client that I had major chemistry with resurfaced. We're talking about being play partners but, well, I'll have to find the time first.

I visited New Orleans and Chicago. Both were great. I'm looking forward to spending more time in Chicago.

I moved in with Smitty. It's been five months and things just keep getting better and better.

I made some awesome friendships. I can't stress this enough. But I've blathered on about it a lot already.

It hasn't all been candy canes and rainbows. I've had some personal issues that I'm working out in therapy. It's hard work and when you start it things kinda have to get worse before they get better. My main job is at best boring and at worst utterly soul crushing. My other job is mostly frustrating with glimmers of doing good. Some people have moved out of my life, which hurts but is for the best.
There's no silver lining for Flagg dying. He was the first close friend who's died in my life and I miss him dearly.

So, yeah, that all sucked. It's been a really rough year but it's also been good in a hell of a lot of ways and I'm trying to focus on that. I hope everyone else had a good year. I'm looking forward to continuing the upward climb in 2010.

A holiday song to schill my show

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:58:40 GMT

Park Slope Metal Bar
(sung to the tune of Winter Wonderland)

Well tonight, there's an OC
With performers hot as can be
A girl named Boo Bess
She's a Baroness
Drinking in a Park Slope metal bar

Apathy Angel's erotic
Grumblekitten's exotic
And Miss Mary Cyn
Will show you some skin
Drinking in a Park Slope metal bar

If it's sideshow that makes you a real fan
then you should know our host is Adamn Rinn
He is also known a the first real man
so he'll be drunk before the show begins

Later on girls will poledance
and you'll slip bills in their pants
Debauchery reigns
it flows through our veins
Drinking in a Park Slope metal bar

All this will take place at Lucky Thirteen
on 13th street just off 5th avenue
You'll have lots of fun at Lucky Thirteen
So we know that we can count on you

even if outside it's snowing
we know this show will be mindblowing
We'll frolic and play
in our best OC way
Drinking in a Park Slope metal bar

Tonight!

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:34:00 GMT

ORIGINAL CYN BURLESQUE returns on December 7th to chase your Monday blues away and keep you warm... in your pants.

This may very well be our rockinest show ever with metal loving performances by
MAGDALENA FOX
MISS MARY CYN
ROSIE 151
SATANICA
and hosted by PETER AGUERO.
Come for the burlesque, stay for the drunkery and pole dancing!

The show starts at 10pm on Monday night and is COMPLETELY FREE.
Lucky 13 Saloon is located at the corner of 5th Avenue and 13th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. To get there, take the F or N train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk one block to 5th Ave and 4 blocks to 13th St.

Shows This Week

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:18:56 GMT

Hello my darling audience. I've got some great shows coming up; storytelling, burlesque and a benefit for a theatre and I hope I'll see ya'll out at one of the shows.

TONIGHT I'm storytelling at Forbidden Kiss
8 pm, at Stage Left Studio, 438 W. 37th Street, 5A, NYC.

Performers include Cheryl King, TC Corwin, Lewis Paul,
Jill Melanie Wirth, Carl Kissin, Brian Longwell,
DeeAnne Gorman, Danielle Bauman and Alithea Howes

Tickets $18, available at www.smarttix.com.
Use discount code KISS to get $5 discount.

Then on MONDAY
ORIGINAL CYN BURLESQUE returns on December 7th to chase your Monday blues away and keep you warm... in your pants.
With performances by
MAGDALENA FOX
MISS MARY CYN
ROSIE 151
SATANICA
and hosted by PETER AGUERO.
Come for the burlesque, stay for the drunkery and pole dancing!

The show starts at 10pm on Monday night and is COMPLETELY FREE.
Lucky 13 Saloon is located at the corner of 5th Avenue and 13th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. To get there, take the F or N train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk one block to 5th Ave and 4 blocks to 13th St.

THURSDAY
I'm performing in a benefit for ABroad Stage Company!
Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls, ABroadRAISED presents to you the GREATEST SIDE SHOW ON EARTH!! (for only $5)

Don your dapperest 1920’s garb and mingle with fabulous freaks of all kinds all in support of ABSCo’s future.
And get a sneak peak of their upcoming production FREAKISH, a BRAND NEW PLAY by Rebecca Stokes...creeping its way around the corner...

$5 tickets at www.brownpapertickets.org
Freak show, carnival games, popcorn, fire, swords and more!!
Visit www.abroadstageco.com for more details!
Or buy your tickets immediately at
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/90844

And then I'm flying to Chicago to teach my class "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Hit Me" a class on introducing your vanilla partners to the world of kink.
Then I'm coming back, hopefully going to Show Us Your Cans a burlesque food drive and THEN performing in Curious Burlesque.

Rock on. I hope to see ya'll at a show or, in some cases, in Chicago.

Counting all my blessings

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:46:22 GMT

Despite its rather dubious background, I think thanksgiving is a great holiday, if only because people *should* stop and think about what they're thankful for because it's far too easy to focus on what one doesn't have. Hell, I think they should have MORE thanksgivings.

In a lot of ways it doesn't seem like I have that much more than I had last year. My life is far from fixed. My main assets are still my friends, my family and myself. But those assets are all richer, deeper, stronger. So here we go.

I'm thankful for Smitty. I have no idea where I'd be without him. He helped me get a job, keep my apartment, keep my sanity. More than anything he's believed in me and helped me believe in myself. Also, he makes me laugh. I am so freaking lucky.

I said this all on my birthday but, wow, my social support system has gotten better. I have more friends, better friends and closer friends. For that I am infinitely grateful.

My parents are the same wonderful and supportive nuts they've always been.

And I'm still flawed but a lot less broken. I'm a lot more focused and possibly even more productive. Thank, freaking, god.

Miss Me?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:45:21 GMT

My Darlings,
I certainly missed you! Luckily we'll have some great opportunities to catch up. This week we have Original Cyn, Epic Win's Cartoon Show, and a reading from my novel at Reader's Kiss.
Details below!

MONDAY
Remember, my turkey act only comes but once a year...

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Hosted by SCHAFFER THE DARKLORD
with performances by
APATHY ANGEL
JUSTINA FLASH
MISS MARY CYN
VERONICA VROOM

Where? The Lucky 13 Saloon. 13th Street and 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Train to 4th and 9th ave.
When? Monday November 16th, 10pm.
How much? FREE!
Did I neglect to mention the aftershow? Come for the burlesque, stay for the notorious aftershow with pole dancing.

Original Cyn Burlesque is produced by Miss Mary Cyn and Joe the Shark

SATURDAY
EPIC WIN Burlesque is back, kids!

Following up on the success of the "Video Games Vixens" shows, co-hosts/producers/nerds Nelson Lugo and Schaffer the Darklord return with a fresh installment of EPIC WIN! This time around, the boys and girls celebrate cartoons and the brightly-colored foxes that star in them. Pour a bowl of Cap’N Crunch and gather 'round the boob tube, because this month, EPIC WIN is gonna party like it’s Saturday morning!

Starring:
Miss Mary Cyn as Bugs Bunny!
Lefty Lucy as Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls!
Victoria Privates does Schoolhouse Rock!
Bonnie Voy’age as She-Ra: Princess of Power!
BB Heart as Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop!
Magdalena Fox as April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Plus raps from Schaffer, magic from Lugo and another round of the geekiest raffle in town.

EPIC WIN Burlesque presents “CARTOONS!”
Saturday November 21st
@ The TANK (Downstairs)
354 W. 45th St.
NYC
Doors @ 8:30pm
Show @ 9:00pm
$15
Advance tix available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/89571

then
SUNDAY
Reader's Kiss is an erotic salon. A testing ground for writers, poets, musicians and performers to unveil new material to an intimate audience. I'll be reading a scene from my newly finished novel (well, ok, the FIRST draft is finished)

The show starts at 6 pm. Join us after the show for beverages, and conversation with the Reader's Kiss company of performers.
Tickets $10
Stage Left Studio is located at 438 W 37th Street 5A, NYC, just east of 37 Arts.

I hope to see you soon!

Boosting the Signal

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:52:20 GMT

Lee Harrington wrote this post and I'm reposting it to boost his signal. I'm also kind of posting this as a note to myself because it's very similar to what I want and need and it's pretty cool to see someone else word it so well and give me clues on what to look for and a few ideas of things I can do on my own to make things a little easier.
More importantly, though, Lee is an awesome guy with a great career and in many ways I want to be him when I grow up. This is a very small way I can help him be as awesome as he wants to be. Here is a link to the original post if you have helpful comments to give.

So, in the past few months I have come to realize in a VERY real sense that I need a manager/agent/business partner. I tried last year to hire an assistant. I don't want/need an assistant at this time.

I write my own stuff.
I teach my own classes.
I answer my own emails.
And paying someone to do my laundry isn't a good fit right now.

What I do need is a human who:
-Can look at my 100+ ideas and concepts and projects and have an objective eye (not over-stating, seriously- need to update that excel spreadsheet)
-Can tell me (and that I can give power to to be able to) to focus on the stuff I need to do
-Can help me plot a trajectory from this mass of ideas
-Can hire individuals for projects and manage them
-Can figure out how to make the business model viable, manage finances, and wrangle LLC stuff, liscencing, etc.
-Can write grant proposals *and* bank borrowing proposals/business plans
-Gets my vision
-Understands that sometimes there are things that I *have* to do for spiritual reasons
-Will tell me to go to sleep and work on it later
-Can find gigs, book them, and help me negotiate such things or negotiate them for me
-Can tell me to stop taking gigs so I have time to do work that makes more money or helps the trajectory better
-Who gets that my plan for world domination does not stop at the kink community
-Who understands the concepts of kink and sexuality enough to not look at me strange when I think there may be a market for this one thing... and can argue pros and cons with each thing (or hear out my arguments with a degree of objectivity)
-Is not using my work as a way to launch their own career
-Who wants to be part of making Passion And Soul the kick ass brand it needs to be
-Who can laugh and be with me socially

So yeah, I'm dreaming/planning/visioning out loud. I keep laughing that I'm looking for a K. (referring to SJ's partner/manager/wrangler/roadie). The romantic partner part is not part of the requirement, though I admit that there is a quiet piece of me that wants that too. Someone with the above skills who I am also emotionally/sexually compatible with? That would be amazing.

But either way- consider this being me boosting my signal. If folks know I am looking for a manager/agent/business partner, maybe in their journeys they will meet someone and go "OMG you NEED to meet Lee Harrington," and magic can happen.

I dream, I plan, I see the vision and I make it my will manifest. Watch me weave magic (aka boost my signal).

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:41:53 GMT

Park Slope's hottest burlesque show returns on Monday night for another night of mayhem!

This is going to be awesome. Rosie 151 is making her debut as one of our featured performers (which means she'll be back the first monday of every month! Yay!) and, if that wasn't awesome enough, there may be fire. Just sayin.

With performances by
MISS MARY CYN
MISTY LUX
ROSABELLE SELAVY
ROSIE 151
and hosted by
CHERRY PITZ!

10 pm. FREE. Lucky 13 Saloon, 13th Street and 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. F train to 4th Ave and 9th street.

Come for the show, stay for the drinking, debauchery and poledancing.

Original Cyn Burlesque is produced on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month by Miss Mary Cyn and Joe the Shark.

Happy Birthday to Me

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:11:40 GMT

It's tempting when a birthday rolls around to ask what one has learned. But, for this birthday at least, it feels more appropriate to ask what I am learning. Thinking of my life as a ladder to be climbed has proved detrimental to my enjoyment of it. and has made mistakes, missteps and downright falls all the harder. Instead I think it's better to think of life as a practice, like yoga; some days you're tighter than others. There is no worked for perfection, merely a meandering journey of progression. This is not an easy outlook to hold on to. It's one of the things I'm learning.

I'm learning to expand my network of trust. It's not wide but it's wider and I hope it will continue to expand. As I learn to lean on more people when I need to, I'm becoming more discerning about who I urn to for support and under what circumstances. A lot of the pain in my life has come from expecting things from people that they're just not equipped to give me and though it hurts sometimes to acknowledge that you can't depend on someone for everything (or, in some cases, anything) it's much more healthy to do so and not keep banging my head against "If they really cared about me they'd..."

I'm learning to find where my boundaries are and when and where I can or should push them. I'm learning that I should be kinder to myself but I'm not really sure of where to start. I've seen people be kind to themselves in the wrong way, and I'm terrified of doing that. I'm learning how to figure out what I want. I'm learning to see and accept the reality of a situation, which is all that patience actually is.

The other temptation of a birthday is to measure how far I've come which is kind of at odds with viewing life as a practice. There are some changes in my life that I'm happy with, though. I'm living with Smitty and very happy about that. I totally didn't see that coming. I'm performing a hell of a lot more. Still not enough to live off of but I'm slowly learning what will get me there. I wrote a novel, one I'm very proud of, even if it's only a first draft. I wrote and performed a one woman show, my first since college. The reaction I got far exceeded my expectations and I'm really happy with it.

My life is a work in progress. I guess it always will be. But I have a clearer vision of what I'm working toward. And I think I'm on the right track.

PH34R MY 1337 WRI77ING 5KI115!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:10:48 GMT

OMG I FINISHED THE BOOK!!!!!!!

I know that's not a huge deal to a lot of you guys since a large portion of my f-list has already written at least one book but, DUDE, I wrote a whole book! I stuck with something for over a year and saw it through. I know there's a very long way between here and it actually finished but for now I squee. SQUEE!!!!!

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:35:30 GMT

Hello my darling readers. I have been largely MIA from LJ for a number of reasons, most of which have been these upcoming performances. So come on out and see the fruits of my labor.

This is what I'll be doing for the next couple weeks.

Original Cyn
The Halloween Edition!
Monday October 19, 10:00
Lucky 13 Saloon, 273 13th St

Waking up in California
My solo show about not being famous. This is my first time acting in, like, 4 years.
Wednesday, October 21st, 8:00
Stage Left Studio 438 west 37th st #5A

Ether
Trendy clubbing and sultry burlesque!
Thursday October 22nd, Midnight
Happy Ending, 302 Broome St

AM Preacher - Prince Show
All Prince, all boobs, all night!
Friday October 23rd, 11:00
Hell Gate Social, 12-21 Astoria Blvd

A Fundraiser for Coney Island
Still waiting on details for this...
Saturday October 24th, TBA
Coney Island Sideshow???

BTK Band
Thursday October 29th, 10:00
The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St.

Slipper Room
Friday October 30th, Midnight
Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St

Original Cyn
Monday November 2nd, 10:00
Lucky 13 Saloon, 273 13th St

Come see a show! It's the only time I see people!

If you are, sadly, not in the area you can catch a few of my performances on Smitty's youtube page They are, of course, Not safe for work.

Time to buy your tickets!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:53:30 GMT

Ok kids, time buy your tickets so my show doesn't get canceled!

Wednesday, October 21st, 8pm at Stage Left Studio 438 West 37th Street suite 5A

In Alithea Howes' new one woman show, a New York performance artist returns to her home town to face the person that she used to be and the expectations she failed to meet.

In scenes both real and imagined she confronts her highschool teachers, her ex-boyfriend, and her 17 year old self all of whom expected her to be famous by now.

Along the way she realizes that it's better to be happy than to be famous, better to be working than to be promising, and that it's not so bad being from California, as long as she doesn't have to stay there.

Tickets can be purchased here

Use the code 3OFF to get a discount. The discount is only available online so buy now!

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:36:11 GMT

With the exception of a rehearsal for my one woman show (it went swimmingly) and a slightly last minute performance at an art party with Rev. Burke Heffner, I spent the whole damn weekend cutting out costume pieces.

I never used to use patterns, partly because they're a bit on the expensive side, partly because I didn't know where the hell to find them, but also because following a pattern meant actually admitting to the fact that I was sewing. I didn't want to sew. I never wanted to be a desinger. My parents are designers. I was supposed to be the director/performer/writer to our one family theatre company.

But, somehow, growing up with designers, living with designers, talking about the theory and practice of design all the time I proved to have something of a knack for it in college. I enjoyed it too... in a way. I loved designing, I liked shopping (to a point) and I hated sewing. I tried to avoid it as much as possible and I told myself that if I wasn't using a pattern, I wasn't sewing I was just... jerry-rigging with fabric.
Eventually I realized that I was just driving myself crazy re-inventing the wheel.

So now I finally admit it. I sew. Just like my mom does. Just like I never learned from my mom in 17 years of opportunity.

*sigh* Better late than never, I guess.

I Shall Not Look Upon His Like Again

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:57:37 GMT

It's been at least 12 hours since I found out and I still don't know what to say.

Flagg is dead. He had a kidney and spleen transplant a few months ago and we thought he was going to be ok. Better than ok. Healthy again. Or close to it. But he got an infection and his body eventually succumbed to it.
He was only 42 years old

I found out last night at my show and when people asked me what was wrong I had to tell them that my friend died but "friend" seems like a lame and crippled word when it comes to describing what he was to me. He was someone I loved and admired more than I know how to explain.
He was a great man, an amazing pervert and a creative force to be reckoned with. One of the things that hurts so much about losing him is knowing some of the things he still wanted to create and knowing that they'll never happen now.

I wish I'd known him longer and I wish I'd known him better. The one time we played changed my life a little and I like to think it did the same for him. And I hate that it will never happen again. And I hate that I will never know his whole sordid life story or have another conversation with him. I am so so lucky to have shared a 10 panty evening with him, to have performed my most disturbing act for his birthday party, to have been under his straight razor.

Goodbye Flagg, thank you for everything. You will be sorely missed.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:28:42 GMT

I'm performing tonight at Forbidden Kiss, doing one of my favorite burlesque numbers with a brand new twist: I'll be singing the song while stripping down!

Join your hostess Cheryl King for this show packed with your favorite Forbidden Kissers.
TAKE A TICKET FOR THE DOOR PRIZE! A PAIR OF TIX TO THE NEXT FORBIDDEN KISS!
Delrita Doyle, bringing another amazing character-based improv
Cheryl King with TC Corwin in another "Wordless Kiss" scene
Alithea Howes , with another of her racy burlesque routines
Brian Longwell, who regales us with a story of sexual adventures in the big city
Dan Gallant, with a new erotic story
Frank Blocker with a monologue "Life with Harry"
Marlene Nichols with a new monologue written by Cheryl King
Jill Melanie Wirth and David Wirth, with "Dirty Yellow Chair"
Topher Cusumano, with a dangerous sex story

Showtime 8 pm. Join us after the show for beverages, and conversation with the Forbidden Kiss company of performers.

Tickets $18 at the door
Order in advance with code KISS for $5 off! www.smarttix.com
Stage Left Studio is located at 438 W 37th Street 5A, NYC, just east of 37 Arts.
Simply buzz the button for Stage Left, listed in the building directory, and come up the elevator to the fifth floor and walk down the hall.
Conveniently located between 9th and 10th Avenues, near the Port Authority and Penn Stations A, C or E line.

Monday is another Original Cyn! and this one will knock your socks off with TWO, count 'em TWO duet acts.

Rosey La Rouge and Schaffer the Darklord
Miss Mary Cyn and Victoria Privates
BB Heart
AND
Sizzle Dizzle
hosted by Princess Sunshine

It's free! There is an epic after party with pole dancing! And it's free!

The show starts at 10pm on Monday night at The Lucky 13 Saloon
Lucky 13 Saloon is located at the corner of 5th Avenue and 13th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. To get there, take the F or N train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk one block to 5th

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:12:33 GMT

Here comes another week of awesome!
Monday: (aka tonight)

Original Cyn brings mayhem to Monday night with our host, Peter Aguero The Towering Storyteller!

With performances by
the scintillating Scarlet Spitfire
the arousing Arden Leigh
the sizzling Stormy Leather
and
the magnetic Miss Mary Cyn

Come for the free show and stay for the party the profligacy and the poledancing!!!

Original Cyn Burlesque is produced by Miss Mary Cyn and Joe the Shark.
The show starts at 10pm on Monday night and is COMPLETELY FREE.
Lucky 13 Saloon is located at the corner of 5th Avenue and 13th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. To get there, take the F or N train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk one block to 5th Ave and 4 blocks to 13th St.

Tuesday:

One full year of Stories At The Creek. Yes! Cyndi has been charming you and Brad has been a little drunk in public for one full year. At the Creek, anyway. And we have a hell of a line up for our anniversary show, which is themed "Near Misses":

Martin Dockery (Moth Grandslammer, the Surprise)
Adam Wade (Moth Grandslam record holder)
Michelle Carlo (Moth Storyslam winner, Campfire stories)
Alithea Howes (Miss Mary Cyn, Original Cyn Burlesque, My Lolita)
Jennifer Glick (Moth Storyslams, Speakeasy Stories)
Cyndi Freeman (Moth Grandslam, Greetings From Hollywood)
and Rosie 151 (Hotsy Totsy Burlesque, Rosie Red's Burlesque)

And Brad Lawrence (Pure Rock God) will be hosting.

It is an amazing line up that is guaranteed to be a lot of fun and it is show number twelve, so a good enough excuse to drink with us after the show.

The show is only $5, starts at 8 and takes place at The Creek 10-93 Jackson Ave in upcoming hood Long Island City!

Thursday:

I'll be remounting my one woman spoken word/dance piece, My Lolita; Sexy and insightful, My Lolita tells Nabokov's most famous story from the side of the nymphet. In a performance that's part poetry and part dance My Lolita is a visceral study of the exploration and exploitation of budding sexuality.
This show sold out twice last year so for those of you who missed it, this is your second chance. For those of you who DID see it, this is your chance to see it again!

The show is only $8, starts at 8 and performs in the basement of Identity Lounge 511 E. 6th Street in Manhattan!

THEN

At midnight I will be performing burlesque at {Ether} a club night featuring dark and sultry burlesque performance. The show is free at HAPPY ENDING 302 Broome St. [btwn Forsyth + Eldridge]

Saturday:

Original Cyn brings it's debauchery to a SATURDAY NIGHT! We've made Mondays notoriously fun, just think what we can do without the threat of tuesday morning hanging over our heads!
Schaffer the Dark Lord will bring extra awesome to our line up with
the unbelievable sexiness of APATHY ANGEL
the out-of-retirement-just-for-this-night boobliciousness of MISS KRISTEN LEE
the fiery seductiveness of MISTY LUX
and
the original cynner herself MISS MARY CYN
The show is still totally FREE and will start at 10 at the Lucky 13 Saloon

Sunday:

We'll finish up the week by giving back at the Sizzling September Summer Extravaganza a benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society!
Where else can you see improv, musical theatre, burlesque, and sketch comedy, prizes and more all in one fabulous evening?!! Come join us for this wonderful benefit to help fight against blood cancers! We have an amazing roster of artists:
Alithea Howes
Taren Sterry
Katie Norlich
Peter Daniel Straus
Stephanie Sellars
Kelly Nichols
Suzanne Frazer
Jill Melanie Wirth
Brionne Davis
Marlene Nichols

Tickets are $20 and 100% of the proceeds will go directly to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in the name of Michelle Ramoni who is running the SF Marathon on October 18th with Team In Training!

The show starts at 7pm and takes place at Stage Left Studios 438 W 37th Street, Suite 5A between 9th and 10th Aves

My darling readers, that is a lot of shows and I hope to see you at at least one of them. There's something for everybody on very nearly every night of the week so I look forward to seeing you.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:22:55 GMT

September 15th, Tuesday, 9:30PM - $8

HOTSY TOTSY BURLESQUE
@ Identity, 511 East 6th street (between A & B)

Party with us at IDENTITY on September 15th as Schaffer the Darklord battles the Dark Lord for Cherry's soul! returns!
With performances by
Apathy Angel
Cherries Noire
Minnie Tonka
Miss Mary Cyn
Nelson Lugo
Delirium Tremens
and gogo by Rosabelle Selvay!

Stay afterwards for the fun that SUGAR puts on at Identity with go-go girls and booty shakin' music by live djs! Identity is located at 511 East 6th street (between A & B). 9:30, $8.

go here here to se the super awesome flyer.

Recover

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:42:15 GMT

Wow. You know you're tired when you find yourself thinking
"I don't have to stand up to shower. It's really more of a guideline than a rule."

Last week was big busy ball of awesome. I performed in six shows, three of them on the same night and, while I'm exhausted, I couldn't be happier. Even the shows that were less fun I was really happy to be in. I'm still getting the hang of slipper room. It's a really different crowd than the one I'm used to. Their expectations are different, their reactions are different, and the show itself has a wildly different vibe. Also, I'm so used to performing in the dark I was wildly under glittered. I'm going to have to start bedazzling some of my costumes and/or building acts around the more glittery things in my wardrobe.

On top of performing I saw a solo show by one of my college acting teachers. The show itself was good, though it had some weak parts. It was performed in the theatre at my old studio, though, and the audience was almost completely filled with her current students and there was something about being there that made me overwhelmingly glad not to be doing theatre anymore. I mean, yes, technically this was a solo show, which is what I still do but there was something about the look and feel of being there. Maybe it was just the bad feelings I had anchored there. Or maybe it was the students talking about the same stupid shit I talked about in college as though it were the most important thing in the world and no one had ever talked about before. Or maybe it was the horrible lighting design (and it takes a LOT for me to notice bad lighting design) and the "we don't have money/creativity for an actual set but we want to make it look like we have a set so we'll borrow some realist bits of furniture and plunk them down in an empty space" set design. Whatever it was it made me really glad to be doing the work I'm doing and not trying to fit into that world.

Of course, this raises a few questions about the design of my upcoming solo show but...well, I'll finish the script first. But now I've learned; if you don't have the money/creativity for a set, don't have a set. If you can't design lights, a simple lights up, lights down will do the trick. Or, at the very least, program your crossfades so that they don't leave the actor in the dark during pivotal moments in the play.
The solo show's coming up on october 21st, by the way. Just sayin.

I also did a photo shoot the morning after the night of three shows. THAT was rough. I mean, once I was there and posing it was fun and I think the photos are going to be great. But dragging my tired ass through the process of waking up, putting on makeup and getting into manhattan was horrible. I swear, the moment someone makes an instant makeup box like the ones they have in the 5th Element I am buying one. I don't care how much they cost, I will find a way.

I also started teaching myself web design with a really old copy of dreamweaver (which I found in the book I bought the LAST time I decided to learn webdesign.) It's not easy but in three hours of fiddling around I managed to make something not hideous which, considering this was software I had never even looked at before, that's pretty damn good. If I can make a decent website for Mary Cyn but the end of the trial, I'll purchase a cheap copy of the software and continue in this vein. If not, I'll bite the bullet and start saving to pay a professional.

Oh! AND! Smitty and I saw Rasputina at the knitting factory and, as always, they rocked. This was the second smallest venue I'd ever seen them in and it felt really intimate and friendly. Unfortunately we had to leave early so I could get to a gig but they were recording the show and will be releasing it as a CD later this fall so I'll get to hear the rest. I really loved sharing the experience with Smitty and was really happy that he liked it, too. We don't have a lot of overlap in musical tastes so I was glad to have them overlap with one of my all time favorite bands.

Overall, it was great and if I keep being this busy I'll be ditching the day job in the not too distant future.

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:29:00 GMT

This Weekend will be jam packed with some awesome burlesque by yours truly.

Saturday I'll be acting up at Forbidden Kiss at 8, Making nerdly hearts flutter at Video Game Vixens at 10, and heating up the late shift at the Slipper Room at one and two am.
Sunday I'll be doing two dark and sultry number at burlesque dance party Curious Burlesque.
Let the insanity begin! Details are posted below.

Forbidden Kiss
Delrita Doyle, bringing another amazing character-based improv
Cheryl King, with a bawdy mime piece
Carl Kissin - with "Eulogy"
Alithea Howes , with another of her racy burlesque routines
Brian Longwell, who regales us with a story of sexual adventures in the big city
Stephanie Sellars, with "Naughty Baby", a sexy song parody
DeeAnne Gorman , with poetica erotica – Haiku in Black
The Bitter Poet, with poetry and angst

Showtime 8 pm. Join us after the show for beverages, and conversation with the Forbidden Kiss company of performers.

Tickets $18
Stage Left Studio is located at 438 W 37th Street 5A, NYC, just east of 37 Arts.

"VIDEO GAME VIXENS: RESTART," an encore performance of last month's evening of 8-bit boobies and pixilated pasties.

Hosts Schaffer the Darklord (STDNYC @ PSN) and Nelson Lugo (PieManAlaMode @ XBLA) shall again shamelessly embrace their nerdiness to produce and host an epic event starring some of the most elite waggle performers Gotham has to offer. An evening filled with music, laughs and magic...but mostly, scantily clad burlesque beauties as they pay homage to some of our most beloved electronic interactive entertainments. Pwning the stage with their own brand of Konami code will be:

Magdalena Fox as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft!
Lefty Lucy as Carmen Sandiego!
Victoria Privates as a Silent Hill nurse!
Miss Mary Cyn as Guitar Hero's Judy Nails!
Bonnie Voy'age as Street Fighter's Chun Li!
And BB Heart as Princess Zelda!

Clearly, this show promises to be full of win. Again.

VIDEO GAME VIXENS: RESTART will also feature a bonus stage in which Nelson Lugo will perform a magic trick that will once and for all settle the question of whether or not there is, in fact, "cake”. But that is not all! There are also new levels and bigger maps featuring a new games-n-sex-themed Schaffer the Darklord song.
@ The Workshop Theater Company
312 W. 36th St. (btw. Ave. 8/9) 4th Floor
NYC
Doors @10:00PM
$15

The Slipper Room
The Slipper Room just turned 10, James and Camille just celebrated 10 years of marriage, and Veronica and Lincoln just celebrated their 7th and 3rd birthdays.
Good reasons to throw a party!
Featuring the antics of The Birdmann of Australia...and the world!
Food and drinks and birthday cake will be served.
DATE: Saturday, September 12
TIME: 1:30-3:30pm
LOCATION: 167 Orchard St., Corner of Stanton St.

Curious Burlesque & Dance Party

Piano's
Upstairs
158 Ludlow St.
21+ with ID
free admission

Every second Sunday of the month, at Piano's, resident performer Mademoiselle Lena of False Aristocracy, curates a night of Curious burlesque and variety, in two acts [ @ 11pm + 1am ].

The dance party continues throughout the night, from 10pm to 4am, to music provided by Mike Dextro of False Aristocracy.

This New Orleans styled event integrates live burlesque shows with a dance party, and while the themes for each night will differ, the general aesthetic will remain the same. Naughty contests, various debauchery and comedic improv by the MC lasts all night.

performances by ::

Mademoiselle Lena [ False Aristocracy // {ETHER} ]
Mary Cyn [ Original Cyn // {ETHER} ]
Apathy Angel [ myspace.com/saltyliquorice ]

My Performances for the Week

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:55:44 GMT

Monday night is Original Cyn Burlesque:
End your holiday weekend the best possible way - with a bang at ORIGINAL CYN BURELSQUE!

Performances by:

CHERRY MAGDALENE
LEFTY LUCY
MISS MARY CYN
RECKLESS ABANDON

And with his new album about to drop, who better to help us in this night of debauchery than Schaffer the Darklord!!!!!!

Original Cyn Burlesque happens the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month at the Lucky 13 Saloon in Park Slope.

Did we mention the show was FREE? That the after parties are epic?

Hope to see you there! The show starts at 10pm on Monday night and is COMPLETELY FREE.
Lucky 13 Saloon is located at the corner of 5th Avenue and 13th street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. To get there, take the F or N train to 9th St/4th Ave, then walk one block to 5th Ave and 4 blocks to 13th St.

Tuesday night is Hard Candy Burlesque's "Revenge" show.
This month featuring LIVE singing during Burlesque acts - All songs about REVENGE
Featuring
Connie Baker
Sizzle Dizzle
Miss Mary Cyn
Calamity Chang
Arden Leigh
with stage kitten Victoria Privates
and special guests
The CHANDRELLES!
with Joe the Shark on the Door
And SugarNY upstairs with DJ Cub and Gogo Dancers all night long.
9:30 at Identity, 511 E. 6th Street (Ave. A and Ave. B), $8

Saturday night is EPIC WIN Burlesque presents VIDEO GAME VIXENS: RESTART!
Bringing the flame-warring camps of casual and hardcore gamers together, EPIC WIN Burlesque (in association with The Workshop Theater Company) proudly presents "VIDEO GAME VIXENS: RESTART," an encore performance of last month's evening of 8-bit boobies and pixilated pasties.

Hosts Schaffer the Darklord (STDNYC @ PSN) and Nelson Lugo (PieManAlaMode @ XBLA) shall again shamelessly embrace their nerdiness to produce and host an epic event starring some of the most elite waggle performers Gotham has to offer. An evening filled with music, laughs and magic...but mostly, scantily clad burlesque beauties as they pay homage to some of our most beloved electronic interactive entertainments. Pwning the stage with their own brand of Konami code will be:

Magdalena Fox as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft!
Lefty Lucy as Carmen Sandiego!
Victoria Privates as a Silent Hill nurse!
Miss Mary Cyn as Guitar Hero's Judy Nails!
Bonnie Voy'age as Street Fighter's Chun Li!
And BB Heart as Princess Zelda!

Clearly, this show promises to be full of win. Again.

VIDEO GAME VIXENS: RESTART will also feature a bonus stage in which Nelson Lugo will perform a magic trick that will once and for all settle the question of whether or not there is, in fact, "cake”. But that is not all! There are also new levels and bigger maps featuring a new games-n-sex-themed Schaffer the Darklord song. And to top it all off there is even a multiplayer component called "The Rock Band Burlesque After-Party." No subscription required, but there will be micro-transactions in the form of a video game inspired raffle. As a pre-order bonus, everyone will receive a **+3 awesome** to their status.

Come for the boobies. Stay for the cake. Stay later for Rock Band with boobies while eating cake. Rest assured, VIDEO GAME VIXENS: RESTART will again give new meaning to the phrase "level up."

10:000pm at the Workshop Theatre Company, 312 W. 36th St. 4th Floor (btw. 8th/9th Ave.), $15
Buy tickets here!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/79958

and finally, Sunday the 13th, Curious Burlesque
Every second Sunday of the month, at Piano’s, resident performers Deity of BadAss Burlesque and Mademoiselle Lena of False Aristocracy, curate a night of Curious burlesque and variety, in two acts (at 11pm and 1am). The dance party continues throughout the night, from 10pm to 4am, to music provided by Mike Dextro of False Aristocracy.

This New Orleans styled event integrates live burlesque shows with a dance party, and while the themes for each night will differ, the general aesthetic will remain the same. Photobooth will be provided by Adrian Buckmaster, and tarot card readings by Courtney. Midnight raffle includes kinky prizes provided by Toys In Babeland and Demask. Naughty contests, various debauchery and comedic improv by the MC lasts all night.

Sept 13th at Pianos, 158 Ludlow St, FREE!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:37:48 GMT

I totally rocked the Slipper Room!

Not only did my performances go smoothly (despite some technical difficulties) but I brought 60% of the audience and they were all awesome people that I love dearly and was delighted to see.
The booker said they'd be happy to have me back! Yay! It's not a regular gig or anything but it's another venue I can work in, which is a step in the right direction.

Coming up this month I'll be performing in 10 gigs and with any luck I'll be getting more and shooting some fetish porn.

Quote:

There! Now no one can say that I don't own John Larroquett's spine.--- Bender

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:52:00 GMT

Friends, lovers, countrymen, lend me your hands, voices and energetic, bodies!

I'm performing tonight at the slipper room and if I really wow the owners it could become a regular gig. If it becomes a regular gig I have an actual shot at being a full time performer and I will be living my lifelong dream.

I'll be performing my heart out and I know that if you, yes, YOU are there, I will perform with even more verve, aplomb, and vavavoom!

So come on out, give me some lovin', and make my dreams come true.

You know I'd do the same for you.

10:30 pm
Tonight!
The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St near Stanton
Closest subway stations are 2nd ave F, V or Delancy st F, J, M,Z

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:07:39 GMT

Video game vixens is famous!

Check out the sexliciousness here!