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Comedienne/actress Fraction, who puts on display the "beauty of comedy," was a finalist in the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition, MGD Kings and Queens of Comedy Competition and was chosen for NBC's "Stand-up for Diversity Showcase." In addition, she has performed on BET's ComicView and in several U.S. military tours. She was featured in the hit movie BarberShop 2 and performs on Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Standup (STARZ), Bill Bellamy's Who's Got Jokes (TV One), and the new season of Russell Simmons ' Def Comedy Jam (HBO).
In 2003, [Marlon Mitchell] won the Miller Genuine Draft Comedy Search; in 2004 Truth Magazine voted him "Comedian of the Year"; and in 2005 Bean Soup Times voted him "Next Comedian to Blow" at the Bean Soup Times Comedy Awards. Recenuy, he appeared in the movie The Lyric at the Los Angeles Film Festival.In to town drifts Sonny Blake, a young man with nothing to his name but big dreams and the guitar case in his hand. Rejected by Tyrone when he applies to play at the Honeydripper, he is intercepted by the corrupt local sheriff, arrested for vagrancy and rented out as an unpaid cotton picker to the highest bidder. But when [Tyrone]'s acein-the-hole fails to materialize at the train station, his desperation leads him back to Sonny and the strange, wire-dangling object in his guitar case. The Honeydripper Lounge is all set to play its part in rock 'n' roll history.In addition to the Comedy Showcase, eta is home to a variety of other events, including a season of six Mainstage productions, the Showfolk daytime series for school aged children, the Saturday Family Matinee, a Visual Arts gallery, Book Signings, Storytelling and Music Mondays, a live cabaret series.See the full content of this document
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So You Think You're Funny? Comedy Showcase at Eta
Start the new year off with laughter at eta Creative Arts Foundation's monthly comedy showcase, "So You Think You're Funny?," presented in collaboration with Urban Connections Productions.
The fun begins this Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the eta Gallery, 7558 S. South Chicago, and continues on the third Wednesday of each month, hosted by Diane Corder, diva of the comedy scen...See the full content of this document
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