Variety performer in NYC.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined March 2009
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Haven't logged into Twitter/X in a very long time but do give me a follow on Instagram @mrmattroper if you need to get in touch and/or see what I'm up to.
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#Philadelphia. Groucho: A Life In Revue has opened. We run til 10 March at the Walnut Street Theatre. Come see me play the harp, steal the silverware, tinkle the ivories and hoard the salami. I play Harpo and Chico, with Frank Ferrante's Groucho and the many faces of Dreya Weber.
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MR. MATT ROPER retweeted
This “Sleeping Beauty,” at Abrons Arts Center, is a hilarious family show in the British holiday tradition that runs “like a steam train when it goes well.” nyti.ms/3N4wJ5t
Devastating news about my dear mate Jason. Thoughts to Maggie, his mum, who absolutely adored him. 💔
He died in his tent following a “medical incident” over the weekend nme.com/news/music/man-who-d…
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Dear @WholeFoods
I've just opened a box of one of your salmon salads and I'm struggling to find the salmon. Am I missing anything? Apart from the salmon?
Yours,
Matty.
Legend.
God Speed…
The finest of people…
Mother, Actress, Politician, Double Academy Award Winner, Tony Winner, Triple Emmy Winner…
and one of THE great Morecambe & Wise guests…
#RIPGlendaJackson
Glenda May Jackson CBE
9 May 1936-15 June 2023
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New York City is filled with smoke today from the wildfires in Canada. It’s bad. And I say that as somebody who smokes.
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My first time seeing these amazing images today. My great-granduncle, comedian Walter Groves w/ daughter Lily, c. 1902.
According to #FredKarno, Walter created the “walk” that #Chaplin incorporated into his Little Tramp persona.
Courtesy of @FionaGruber via @WilliamGGilbert
@musichallsoc perhaps you might have something related to Walter in your archives?
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Tonight and tomorrow (Fri 9.30pm & Sat at midnight) I’m back at the Slipper Room #NYC with Wilfredo and a bunch of talented downtown acts incl. Peter Strauss, Gigi Holliday, the Evil Hate Monkey and more. Come early, stay late. Tickets/reservations: slipperroom.com
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Also, take a look at the life of another g-granduncle (on my mum’s side), the quadruple threat that was comedian Walter Groves. A link to Chaplin, Vesta Tilley, Cinquevalli and more.
ABC radio doc here: abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
#MusicHallVarietyDay
#MHVD2023 #MHVD
It’s #MusicHallVarietyDay.
A shout out to my great-granduncles, Music Hall performers Johnnie Cullen and George Sanford — two Scouse brothers of the Roper clan and comedians of the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. #MHVD2023
New York is the only city in the world where the show waits for the audience and not the other way around.
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