May 22, 2014

Comedy Show Brings “Golden Voices” to Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, MO – The award-winning comedy show
Right Between the Ears hauls its big bag of radio
spoofery to Kansas City for a live performance at
the 2014 HearNOW Festival -- Saturday, June 21 at
7:30pm at Community Christian Church.

Joining the Right Between the Ears cast for this
performance are singer/actress Barbara Rosenblat,
the "Meryl Streep of audiobooks" and a Broadway/TV
veteran; and 10-time Audie Award-winner, actor and
BBC broadcaster Simon Vance.

The HearNOW Festival is the audio equivalent of a
film festival for contemporary storytelling in all
its forms: classic radio theatre, audiobooks,
experimental narrative and more. The four-day
festival, June 19-22, will offer numerous live and
recorded performances at venues throughout Kansas
City.

With over 400 audiobook titles to her credit,
Barbara Rosenblat has been named one of Audiofile
Magazine's "Golden Voices". She's appeared in
London's West End theatre, worked for the BBC,
British film and television and performed on
Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The
Secret Garden and the critically acclaimed revival
of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio starring Liev
Schrieber. On TV, Barbara has appeared in Law and
Order SVU, Tales of the Unexpected and The Guiding
Light; her film credits include Little Shop of
Horrors and Reds.

Named a "Golden Voice" by Audiofile Magazine and a
"Voice of Choice" by Booklist Magazine, Simon
Vance was a newsreader and presenter for BBC Radio
4 before moving to the U.S. Called "the gold
standard of narrators" by author Neal Gaiman, he
has recorded more than 700 audiobooks, including
the Audio Award-winning The Complete Sherlock
Holmes and Dracula. On TV, Simon has appeared in
Criminal Minds, Nash Bridges and The Evidence,
plus lending his distinctive voice to such video
games as Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through
Time and King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride.

Tickets for this special live performance of Right
Between the Ears are $10.00 until June 1 ($15.00
thereafter) and are on sale now at
www.rightbetweentheears.com.

Right Between the Ears is a four-time winner of
the Gold Medal as Best Comedy Show at the New York
Festivals, and is broadcast every week on Kansas
Public Radio stations (91.5, Lawrence; 89.7,
Emporia; 91.3, Junction City; 99.5 Manhattan; and
90.3 Chanute). The show has also been heard on
National Public Radio, Sirius-XM and BBC Radio 4.

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