an Ethel!! reunion?

[thoreau]

eons ago - back in Seattle - I helped start a comedy group called "ETHEL!!"

Originally inspired by myself, pandabuff and others as a brutal scathingly mean slam on the men's chorus subgroup "Zipper!" - - it morphed into much, much more. We sang everything from backstreet boys to other artists - in full on ETHEL MERMAN VOICE - all 7 of us. Made for the most scary vibrato weapon ever conceived.....

The Original ETHEL!!:
E: Tony pandabuff,
T: Muffin/Moi,
H: Ken,
E: Roger,
L: Joe,
!: Chris,
!: Dan
and Robert/Her
Posing outside the club where we made our Seattle debut, O-Space

So - scary enough - this spring is the 10th Anniversary of Ethel!! The group has changed out members over the years so that now - the original gorgeous line-up you see above have all moved onto other luminous musical adventures - and Tony pandabuff has suggested that the original ETHELL!!s return from the corners of the earth and reunite at the Seattle Mens Chorus live auction on April 18th. So, Seattlites - it appears that Hurricane Muffin will be descending on your fair city come mid-April.

Having just joined the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus - and then having contact from Tony about ETHEL!! - it's lovely stew of memories of the past and wonderings about what frightening adventures I'll find with my new chorus family here in San Francisco.

Comments

[zacki1978.livejournal.com]

LOL I remember that! I was in the chorus back in the day as well and always had a blast watching you guys hehehe I have been wondering for some time now why you looked so darn familiar!

[pectopah.livejournal.com]

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10 years, eh? That means your time in Seattle and my/Ric's time overlapped. Small world.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

TA+Da - - -- via 7 years of exile in Boise Idaho from 1999 to 2006 - I moved to SF and have set up my own little corner of fabulocity. :)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. sorry about that. I reposted - see if it is working now.

[zacki1978.livejournal.com]

Love it! And ps: Thanks for the image use, you will get credit when I give him the card. :) .... next time i'll ask, sorry bout that. Bad Zack! :( hehe

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

don't worry to awful hard - just be careful. there are many artsy photo folks on LJ that'd be far less um - okay about it. no biggy :)

[pectopah.livejournal.com]

Wow, that takes me back. I remember Arospace. Ric worked at Gay City and I went to some events there.

Best wishes for Ethel!!'s reunion

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

You have certainly had an unbelievably rich life.

[wescobear.livejournal.com]

We sang everything from backstreet boys to other artists - in full on ETHEL MERMAN VOICE...

A truly terrifying concept. [g]

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

but somehow it worked and worked spectacularly -

[badgerpdx.livejournal.com]

I REMEMBER "ZIPPER" from the small ensemble festival at Ball State: I was in the subgroup of "Voices of Kentuckiana" (Inner Voices). I remember an especially lovely affairette I had with a member of Zipper, but I'd happily trade all that for a chance to had heard ETHEL! OMG! It's sounds FANTASTIC! Is there any performance footage?