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Feb 2021
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American Hysteria: LIVE VARIETY HOUR (Wa...

CHELSEY WEBER-SMITH
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Our Live Variety Hour is not your run-of-the-mill podcast live show, but an actual two-hour theatrical production performed in 2019. For the first time ever, you can get access to the full video on Patreon (pay what you can)! Using my background as a drag and performance art producer, a handful of my brilliant creative partners and I created a vaudevillian b ... Show More
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