I’m Only Explaining This Once: A Rosen By Any Other Name … (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by Karen Tortora-Lee on February 27, 2012

Not everyone got the kind of name that looks good on a marquee or sounds good in the sentence ” … and the award for best actor goes to …”.  And let’s all just admit it now: no one really knew how to pronounce “Gyllenhaal” till several movies in, and even then it took TWO siblings to get the world to say it properly.  Twenty years later Demi Moore still has 50% of the population putting the accent on the wrong syllable.

So.  Now imagine that you’re not that famous at all.  Nowhere near.  And you’re given a name that everyone mispronounces or mistakes for another name upon hearing it. Wouldn’t you change your name too?  You would if you were Moe Rosen, writer and performer of I’m Only Explaining This Once, his solo-show currently playing at the Red Room.
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I’m Only Explaining This Once: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium on February 18, 2012

Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?

I’m Only Explaining This Once

Written & Performed by Moe Rosen – New York, NY

Hi I’m Moe. I changed my name last year. This show is about why. It’s hard to explain, so I like to do it in large groups to save time.

Show Times:

• Thu 2/23 @ 11pm
• Sat 2/25 @ 5pm
• Sun 2/26 @ 2pm
• Wed 2/29 @ 9:30pm
• Fri 3/2 @ 6:30pm
• Sun 3/4 @ 5pm

Answers by Moe Rosen

(Writer / Performer)

Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Moe: The title has to do with my name and changing it, that is so impossible to understand that I literally had to write a one man show about it in order to explain it to friends.

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