Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents
Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Zoom Style With Jim Brochu
Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents, is normally filmed from the Hotel Edison, but today we went Zoom Style. Live From The Edison Times Square Chronicles is a podcast extension of T2C. Today owner Suzanna Bowling talked with Jim Brochu. Brochu wrote and starred Off-Broadway in Zero Hour , a one-person play about the life and career of actor and comedian Zero Mostel, from 2009–2010. For this performance, he won the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Solo Performance. Brochu's stage debut was in a production of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew . In 2005, he was nominated by the Los Angeles Ovation Awards as Best Actor in a Musical for The Big Voice , an honor he won from both the Palm Springs Desert Star Awards and the Valley Theatre League ADA Awards. In 2007 and 2008, he and Steve Schalchlin co-wrote the musical The Big Voice: God or Merman , which Brochu starred in Off-Broadway. The Big Voice: God or Merman? was also given the Ovation Award as Best Musical, presented to Brochu and Schalchlin by Jerry Herman. Brochu was a friend of Lucille Ball and is the author of her unauthorized biography, titled Lucy in the Afternoon , and in this capacity, appeared on an episode of MythBusters . Jim Brochu has written his first murder mystery, set in turn of the 20th century vaudeville. Like Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express," everybody has a reason and an opportunity to murder Frank. The characters are all at the early part of their careers, which is why Jack Benny turns out to be the guy who figures out the real killer. The group are a mixture of fictional characters and real characters, perhaps with their original names, which will be changed as they become famous. Also there is a big Surprise at the end of the book but you have to be a real movie buff to recognize it.
