Lynn Ruth Miller

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LYNN RUTH MILLER is a seasoned professional, traveling far and wide to perform at celebrated festivals and venues worldwide. Miller hit the headlines in Edinburgh at the 2005 International Fringe Festival for jumping out of a cake (almost) and removing her clothes (not quite). She left them laughing when she sat on their laps at the 2006 International Fringe Festival and at the 2007 Fringe Festival, she was dubbed the new Joan Rivers of Fringe Comedy.

Now she is 74 and she swears she hasn’t gotten the last laugh yet. Miller performs at a variety of benefits and events in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has certainly taken the Bay Area by surprise if not by storm and has become the symbol of achievement to all who know her.

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Lynn Ruth was the happy surprise at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival '05-'07.

Reviews of Lynn Ruth Miller - Festival Performances
* Ballooney Tunes, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2007
* Absolute Comedy Chaos, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2006
* Notre Dame Labor Day Theatre Festival, 2006

Lynn Ruth Miller in "Ballooney Tunes"
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
August 2007

#1

Michael Ward

"You probably wouldn't know what to expect if you were told you were going to see a 74 year old woman doing a strip tease on stage. I certainly didn't. In fact, the show turned out to be a hilarious mix of songs, stories and dance with quite a profound message underlying the frivolity, namely, it can be fun to be old.

With songs such as 'Spandex is a Girl's Best Friend' and 'Thank Heavens for Little Pads' Lynn Ruth applies her own brand of humor to a subject that many would rather not dwell upon. The result, an entertaining hour of merriment and even a bit of audience participation. Oh... and thankfully the strip tease was more tease than strip."

Anastasia Travers
Producer, Actress, Director

"Entertaining and bubbly, Lynn Ruth manages to make a small, nondescript room come alive with her seemingly endless 
energy.
Able to poke fun at herself and the process of aging, Lynn Ruth's charm captures you from the moment the show starts
with the song "The Strip Polka" all the way until the last song 'Living the Dream,' which had us all of singing along.
The night I was there, there was a mixed crowd of various ages and everyone was enjoying it. Whether you were 
already in your golden years or growing older… you got it!
This is cabaret like you've never seen it...Who knew grandma could be so funny?"

Julian Goodman

"This year I saw a different side to Lynn Ruth Miller at The Grosvenor Hilton. Here she had two shows on, “Absolute Comedy Chaos” and “Ballooney Tunes!” Comedy Chaos had her performing stand-up comedy with other invited guests, but Ballooney Tunes was my favourite! In this show, she played an 82 year old stripper practising her latest routine for the audience of a retirement home on us. She parodied song after song, flirted with the audience much to their delight, flinging certain items of unterheizen of the brassiere variety, along with sheitels, incontinence pads and medication depending on the song being performed. They ranged from 'A Bulge On The Hips May Be Quite Continental, But Spandex Is A Girl's Best Friend' and 'After You've Gone, There'll Be No Munching - After You've Gone, It's Soup For Luncheon' and one of my favourites, 'Tell Me Once, And Tell Me Twice, And Tell Me Once Again, My Hearing's Almost Gone!' There were songs about cannabis, Viagra and balding to name but a few, and the audience (of varying ages I hasten to add) just lapped them all up. The show was over all too soon, but we all joined in for a rousing chorus of 'The Older I Am, The Better I Get,' which in Lynn Ruth Miller's case is all too true! I believe she offered to perform for The Luncheon Club but never heard back from anybody. If she comes back next year, they'd be meshuggeh to miss another opportunity!"

#4

Fiona York; actress

"I watched Lynn Ruth Miller's cabaret show, Ballooney Tunes in Edinburgh at the Fringe Festival in August with a small but totally absorbed and appreciative audience - it is charming - funny - and original - celebrating the years that come to us all - but are too often regarded as the time for total retirement from life - Lynnie will never allow this to happen - and takes us with her for a wonderful evening - I had a good time."

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Lynn Ruth Miller in "Absolute Comedy Chaos"
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
August 2006

#1

"Performing at the Fringe is hard. Lynn Ruth Miller should know: the 74 year old stand-up has been here since before I was even old enough to spell 'comedy'. This show is slapdash and uneven (half-arsed I might have said, were I not so determined not to insult this lovely group of people), but a great connection with the crowd (and by crowd, I mean me and someone's mum) meant that it was fun, if not hugely funny. Matt Grantham, a 'scientifically accurate' comedian, would do really well in front of a larger audience; Helen Terry's beauty therapist sketch was disappointing; while Ms Miller herself is like Joan Rivers without the swearing. Brash and unashamed, she's doing the kind of jokes your gran wishes she was brave enough to do."

Mikelangelo
(Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen)

"I had the excellent fortune of meeting Lynn Ruth Miller and seeing her in full flight at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe. As the acting MC of The Vaudeville Cabaret at the Bongo Club, I witnessed night after night countless talented and talentless hopefuls, desperados and established artistes, and then came Lynn Ruth Miller! Her seamless blend of songs, repartee, and off the cuff antics had the crowd in the palm of her hand. This woman has it all and then more. Our spontaneous duets and dance maneuvers were a fringe highlight for me, and I am filled with excitement to see her at the helm of her own variety show at the 2007 Fringe. The world’s most saucy San Franciscan septuagenarian, Lynn Ruth Miller is a force to be reckoned with."

#3
Mark McInnes
Edinburgh 2006

“Lynn Ruth Miller is a true original, a unique and vivacious artist - writer, raconteur, singer, burlesque performer, satirist and comic. She appeared several times at the late-night cabaret, the Midnight Carousel, and never failed to bring the house down. She is inspiration to younger and less energetic artists like me.”

Notre Dame Labor Day Theatre Festival
September 27, 2006

#1

R. Dutch Fritz
NDNU Labor Day Theatre Festival Producer

"Lynn Ruth Miller performed 'Farewell to the Tooth Fairy' for the 10^th Notre Dame de Namur University's Labor Day Theatre Festival on August 31 and September 2, 2006. Her stories are warm, engaging and charming. Her choice of stories invite you to share poignant episodes throughout her life. She drew a crowd of about 50 people and was a wonderful addition to our festival and hope she will return again next year."

#2

Karen Byrnes
Director Notre Dame Theatre Festival

“Lynn Ruth Miller’s original material provides hilarious insights into aging and dating in the senior years with a darkly, comic twist”

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