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Sybil Bruncheon has been performing on stage, radio, TV, film, and in various Vaudeville, burlesque, church basement, county fair, and sideshow....uh..."venues" for most of her 29 years. She is available for bookings for just about anything and can be reached at bruncheon@hotmail.com and on her website sybilbruncheon.com. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Her erdo number is 16.

October 29th, 2011… This was the Halloween show we were producing with the fabulous ladies of the Red Ribbon Foundation up in Greenwich, Connecticut! ....A Costume Ball and contest, an elaborately catered banquet, prizes, dancing, a whole evening of incredible fun that took months of planning MONTHS!!...and, well, do you remember what happened??? A freak blizzard hit the entire North East! An ice storm that clung to all the leaves that hadn't even begun to fall off the trees.... and so right after I arrived in Greenwich with my co-host and costume designer Gefil Tefish and went to the venue to get ready, we listened as trees began crashing in the woods all around us mixed with the thunder and lightning from the "thunder-flurries" that rumbled all night long. Jim Cantore and the Weather Channel cast were apoplectic! The headlines reported power outages that ended up lasting for weeks afterwards in many areas. Thousands of trees were brought down, oftentimes right into people's homes and businesses. And of course, Halloween was basically canceled in the affected areas.

That night the entire committee and the volunteers divided up all the prepared (and sumptuously catered!) food, and we all retired to the chairwoman's beautiful home and had our own impromptu Halloween party with games, ghost stories, and bobbing for apples... or was it Harry Winston brooches? The old saying in show business is that "The Show MUST Go On!"... well, here's the poster for the only event in all my years that never took place!...an odd and wonderful piece of memorabilia in my collection. (ps. Interestingly, exactly one year later, Halloween was canceled again! Hurricane Sandy blacked out NYC and much of the metropolitan area! JEEESH!!)

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