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Nice review of Jay Johnson's Broadway show "The Two and Only!". Although the author, John Heilpern, is not necessarly a big fan of ventriloquism, he does write an interesting article..

Oh.. and when you finish the article, I've provided here a link that'll get you a FREE copy of a classic ventriloquism book, sold to thousands of young men in days past. I've compiled it as a PDF, and all you need to do is right click and 'save as' to your desktop.. ~Download~

(If you have a friend you think may be interested in it, pass it on...)

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Gog’s on Groadway—Perils of Ventriloquism

When it comes to ventriloquists, I’m with you. They do not make my spirits soar. Even in childhood, I always dreaded a ventriloquist coming onstage with his wooden “friend” folded in a suitcase crying, “Let me out! Let me out!”

No disrespect to the masterly ventriloquist Jay Johnson, whose The Two and Only! is currently on Broadway, but I prefer magicians, with their whiff of the sideshow demimonde of card sharps, hustlers and circus freaks. True, the ventriloquist has always possessed his own twilight zone—the grinning dummy in the cupboard who flickers to life to murder anyone who happens to be around, particularly the ventriloquist. Or this creepy, personal favorite of mine: the dummy who’s really the ventriloquist! ~Read More~