COME TO The GAZZ GATHERING and FESTIVALL CHARLESTON KICK-OFF and witness one of the more curious and interesting evenings of performance art in Charleston for awhile, staged on one of the city’s lesser known historic stages, a 500-seat theater downtown.

WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, June 22 on stage at the historic Scottish Rite Temple, 406 Capitol St. (beside the Kinko's/Pressly Ridge Building at corner of Capitol and Washington streets). Admission $10 with free after-party
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6-7 p.m.: Cash bar in the impressive Scottish Rite ballroom
7 p.m.: 10-minute opening comedy act by Dave Stacy, insurance salesman by day, cable channel wanna-be comedian at LA's famed Improv club by night
7:15: Drew the Dramatic Fool's one-man show "Help! Help! I Know This Title is Long, But Somebody's Trying to Kill Me!"
8:30 p.m: Free admission after-party at Vandalia Lounge, 212 Hale St., with ambient jazz by the Bark o’ Loungers
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SUGGESTED ATTIRE: After-work Casual or Hippie Formal
NOTE 1: The gazz.com video crew will film the evening and your smiling face may show up on the videocast of the evening at thegazz.com
NOTE 2: The evening is a fundraiser for FestivALL Charleston. Good cause!
NOTE 3: You are also welcome to come to the cocktail gathering and afterwards to Vandalia. Please pass on to interested compatriots

Drew the Dramatic Fool reinvents an ancient, if bumbling, art practiced by royal jesters, vaudeville eccentrics, silent film comedians, theatrical clowns and imperfect humans everywhere. The Dramatic Fool will perform "Help! Help! I Know This Title is Long, But Somebody's Trying to Kill Me!" in which Drew is the only member of a vaudevillian stage show left alive. In "show-must-go-on" fashion, he tries to avoid the same fate by taking on all the roles of his dearly departed counterparts. He has performed in theaters and festivals across the U.S., including The Arden Theatre at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Palace of Variety in Times Square and The NY International Festival Of Clown-Theatre.

The evening begins with a cash bar in the ballroom upstairs, followed by a short comedy act by Dave Stacy in the Temple’s little known and very cool 500-seat theater. A Charleston insurance salesman by day, Stacy was recently filmed as part of the Travel Channel show "This Job's a Trip," in which an average person is thrust into the trials of a completely different job. Stacy was given a five-minute comedy set in February on a sold-out Saturday night at the famed Los Angeles comedy club The Improv. The program will screen later that night on the cable channel.