SHE’S HISTORY
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Chatting With Gloria Steinem After My Bella Abzug Performance
PHOTO CREDIT Robin L Gallagher
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who said;
“with admiration for a terrific performance”.
PHOTO CREDIT Robin L Gallagher
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The Most Shocking And Unnatural Incident Ever Recorded In The History Of Womanity!
March is Women’s History Month. Most people don’t know that. And THAT is shocking.
In honor of women, PBS has aired a fantastic three hour documentary called MAKERS.COM – “a digital platform developed by AOL, showcasing hundreds of compelling stories from women of today and tomorrow.” What a great idea! (You can watch the entire show on their website http://www.makers.com/). The show is loaded with fabulous females telling their true horrifying and inspiring stories such as Oprah telling a story of how in 1980, she was co-hosting a Baltimore TV show and earning $22,000 and learned her male co-host was earning $50,000. When she complained to her boss, he asked why she should make that much and she told him “because we are doing the same job”. He argued with her and defended the male co-host, saying he had a family to support and bills to pay. Oprah said she knew she couldn’t make a big stink or she would be blackballed. She just thought; “I’ll show him”. And that’s when she got the idea to have her OWN show…READ MORE.
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UPCOMING SHOW
JUST ADDED! ONE LOS ANGELES SUNDAY MATINEE
PAST EVENTS
THANKSGIVING FUNDRAISER
New York City
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17th at 7:00PM
The Museum Of Motherhood
401 East 84th Street at 1st Avenue (212.452.9816)
http://www.mommuseum.org/theater/
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NEW YORK CITY
MONDAY NOVEMBER 19th
5:30-8:30PM
Manhattan Borough President’s Office
One Centre Street
Exhibit Runs November 1st-30th
Reception Monday November 19th
Women On The Move Celebrates
The Thirty-fifth Anniversary of
The National
Women’s Conference of 1977
Ticket Info Coming Soon
Presented by Jeanette Watson Sanger and
Diana Mara Henry – Bella Abzug’s Official Photographer
Featuring Former Commissioners, Delegates and Bella’s Former Staffers
Honored Guests Include: Former Commissioner Rita Elway Brogan
Feminist, Author and Activist Kate Millet
and Amy Simon performing as Bella Abzug
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Texas, November 19th, 1977 The Spirit Of Houston
Trail Blazing, Hat-Wearing, Peace-Making Bella Abzug – who joined Congress at the age of fifty – pulled off another miracle, organizing The National Women’s Conference which she got the government to pay for! A Fabulous Federal First and a major major coup! With a “special emphasis on the representation of low-income women, members of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups, and women of all ages,” every state was represented with two thousand delegates, along with eighteen-thousand women and supportive men, many husbands, who supported their wives by carrying their little babies so the moms could go to meetings. Also carried – a torch from Seneca Falls, New York (home of the First Women’s Conference in 1848) to Houston, Texas. It was presented to Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford and Rosalyn Carter who said it was“…the most important and exciting conference I have ever attended”. Also on hand, Coretta Scott King, Maya Angelou, Billie Jean King and of course the glorious Gloria Steinem, to name a few. The thirty-fifth Anniversary of this historic event is being celebrated in Manhattan, Monday, November 19th 2012, with yours truly speaking as Bella Abzug.
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
Lady Bird Johnson, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford and Bella Abzug
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PAST EVENTS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21st at 7:00PM
SHE’S HISTORY! back at The Lounge Theater in Hollywood
6201 Santa Monica Blvd at El Centro (just East of Vine)
July 11th New York City
Los Angeles – Three Matinees In May
SHE’S HISTORY! back at The Lounge Theater in Hollywood
Sundays at 2:00PM
May 6th, Sunday May 13th – MOTHER’S DAY! and Sunday May 20th
New York City, March 2012
Benefit for Museum Of Motherhood
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San Diego, California
March 2012
Women’s Museum Of California Fundraiser
Downtown YWCA Auditorium
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Monterey, California
March 15th
U.S. Army Fort Hunter Liggett
Ethnic Observance Women’s History Month
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Burbank, California
Burbank Public Library Young Adult Services
7:00PM Thursday, February 23, 2012
Buena Vista Branch Library
300 N. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91505
(818) 238-5620
FREE!
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Boynton Beach, Florida
Monday February 13th
Banyan Springs Woman’s Club
Private Show
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MARCH 2012 BLOG
FIVE HUNDRED FORTY FABULOUS FUTURE FEMINISTS
If someone were outside the All Girl Immaculate Heart High School gymnasium -which doubles as an auditorium – and heard the cheers – one would assume there was a game going on. But no. The girls were cheering at Mary Wollstonecraft, and Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass.
It was March 1st, 2012, the first day of Women’s History Month and I was performing SHE’S HISTORY! The Most Dangerous Women in America, Then And Now… for five hundred and forty fabulous future feminists.
This was my first high school performance and what a way to start Women’s History Month! The girls were rapt! Rapt I tell you. They CHEERED at our first feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft – who wrote our first feminist book – A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman – or as I like to call it Don’t Punish Me For Having Ovaries! They loved it when I called Bella Abzug, “a great GREAT Pain In The Ass”! They screamed with recognition at Sojourner Truth. And they went a bit crazy when Frederick Douglass came to the SHE’S HISTORY! party.
What a joy and a surprise to get this reaction from high school students. The day before I was working on some promotional materials in my Apple Class. My tag line is “Why do we know more about Snookie than Abigail Adams? My trainer – a nice 30ish year old man asked, “who is Abigail Adams”? My heart sank. The night before I was at Staples printing a photo of me and Gloria Steinem (who I got to meet again), and asked the lovely young woman helping me, “Do you know who this is?” When she said no I said “it’s Gloria Steinem”! She had no idea who she was.
Immaculate Heart, a private girls Catholic High School in Los Angeles, has a reputation as a rebel school. No wonder those girls related to SHE’S HISTORY! Afterwards, several of the girls came up to me to tell me how much they enjoyed the show. One lovely young woman gushed compliments, passionate about her desire to get “more people involved in feminism”. I almost started crying. Their very cool teacher Claire told me the school has a fabulous theater department (yay!) and the seniors were all taking AP History (a college prep course) and that is why so many were familiar with the women and story lines in the show. I profile, show slides, tell stories about, humanize and bring to life around 40 fabulous females – each one a rebel and each one deserving of their own show. I am working on Victoria Woodhull’s – the first woman to run for President in 1872. I didn’t get to perform her story for the rebels at Immaculate Heart, as I had to cut the show down to fit into their 50-minute schedule. What a fabulous fifty minutes it was! As Elizabeth Cady Stanton said to Susan B. Anthony – in a scene from the play - “I am FIRED ANEW!!!”
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Los Angeles
SHE’S HISTORY! was BACK in Los Angeles at The Lounge Theater in Hollywood for just one weekend – three shows:
