{"id":7953,"date":"2013-10-21T16:29:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2013-10-21T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T21:29:51","slug":"womens-comedy-ensemble-featured-at-amazing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2013\/10\/21\/arts-culture\/womens-comedy-ensemble-featured-at-amazing-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Women's Comedy Ensemble Featured at Amazing Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7955\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013_november-women-comedy-ensemble-amazing-things.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7955\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7955\" alt=\"(photo)  Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013_november-women-comedy-ensemble-amazing-things-300x162.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013_november-women-comedy-ensemble-amazing-things-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013_november-women-comedy-ensemble-amazing-things.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women's Comedy ensemble: Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha came together when they met at The Mouth, a forum for women performers, poets and writers created by Liz Appleby.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering they could make each other laugh uproariously, they decided to pool their talents and create a fluid, humorous reflection of the world from their unique points of view.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <strong>November 6th<\/strong>, 2013, the ensemble will be featured at the <strong>Amazing Things Comedy Mique Show<\/strong> in a set entitled, \"I'll Give You Something to Laugh About\",\u00a0 a product of their collective talents told in poems, stories and <!--more-->songs.\u00a0 The show starts at 7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheryl Perreault<\/strong> is a contemplative, funny<em> (with a twist of zen)<\/em> spoken word artist. With a background in psychology, she works as a facilitator of creative writing and community arts, has two CDs of musically accompanied poetry and hosts Wake Up and Smell the Poetry, a monthly poetry\/music venue at Hopkinton based HCAM TV Studios.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz Appleby<\/strong> has been called a compassionate and often irreverent improvisational comedic storyteller in her questioning of our human behavior<strong><\/strong>. Liz performs \"live comedic blogging\" in performance on stage and also wears many other hats including Presentation Skills and ESL Coach and host of The Mouth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dianne Bilyak,<\/strong> a heady humorist\/ playwright\/poet, reads her life stories in a style similar to David Sedaris. Dianne's play is being performed as part of the United Solo Festival,in NYC in October 2013 and has a book of poems titled, Against the Turning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deborah Rocha <\/strong>is a witty and highly rhythmic singer\/songwriter with an intelligently overactive imagination. She has released two CDs, co-wrote a folk secular oratorio and is currently working on a third CD about the art in science.<\/p>\n<p>Join them and a group of other miquers doing PG14 comedy in stand up, song, story, magic and more scheduled for the show including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stephen Wheeler<\/strong> - Stand-up<\/li>\n<li><strong>PJ Karr<\/strong> - Stand-up story<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malik Haddadi<\/strong> - Comedy magic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Libby Franck<\/strong> - Storyteller<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joey Friedman<\/strong> - Stand up<\/li>\n<li><strong>Helena Leet Pellegrini<\/strong> - Storyteller<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amanda Maffei<\/strong> - Singer Songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Keating <\/strong>- Stand up<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dave Hornfischer<\/strong> - host<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets are available at the door are just $6 and only $5 for Amazing Things members.<\/p>\n<p><em>Amazing Things Arts Center is located at 160 Hollis Street in Downtown Framingham. For more info, visit\u00a0 <a title=\"Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham MA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazingthings.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.amazingthings.org<\/a> or call 508-405-2787.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Cheryl Perreault, Liz Appleby, Dianne Bilyak and Deborah Rocha came together when they met at The Mouth, a forum for women performers, poets and writers created by Liz Appleby. 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