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Ed Zacko is a native of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He never intended to
sail around the world. His dream was to move to New York, study with
drum greats Gary Chester and Louis Bellson and play the drums with the
"Big Boys." Ed has backed major stars such as Danny DeVito, Chuck
Berry, Bobby Rydel and Zoot Simms. He has played in the orchestra of
the Radio City Music Hall, Broadway musicals with Ben Vereen, Jerry
Lewis and Doug Henning and has played on many recordings and movie
sound tracks. It was on a tour with George Gobel and Glen Campbell
when his life took a radical turn.
George looked at him one day at
lunch and asked, "What are you doing with all the money I'm paying
you? One day this tour will end and the money will all be gone. Buy
some land! Buy a boat! When this tour is over I want you to have
something solid to show for this time on the road. Do something with
the money that will give your life some lasting meaning."
So, Ed bought some land and his first boat, an 18 ft catboat he
called Drummer Buoy, and went back to playing the drums. Two years
later he met Ellen while playing in the pit orchestra of one of Broadway's soon
to be, latest, greatest....FLOPS !
That show only ran for three weeks. Ellen and Ed's is still running after thirty-one years.
Enjoy the show!
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Ellen Floody-Zacko is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first part of her life focused on learning to play the violin. She was fortunate to study with some of the finest violin teachers in the United States: Mary Drane West, Lea Foli, John Tartaglia, Robert Bloch, William Starr, Ora Shiran and Itzak Perlman.
A certified Suzuki Teacher through the MacPahil School for the Performing Arts, Ellen pursued a career playing and teaching violin. A summer playing at the Aspen Music Festival forced a change in her life to move to New York to play Broadway shows.
One evening as the
orchestra finished playing the entr'acte of the show, Ellen
leaned over to the drummer who was reading Sailing Alone Around the World and asked, "Why would anyone want to sail around the world
alone?" It is here that "The Partnership--Voyage of Entr'acte " begins.
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The crew of Entr'acte is made up of Mike the Moose, Charlie the Bear, and Baby G the Gorilla (in Spanish, Chiquitin). These boys bring joy to all they meet. They are brilliant at adapting to new countries and customs. Charlie went from a bear to a beach bum with an earring in the Bahamas, to Don Carlos of Seville and Soca Warrior in Trinidad. Mike became the Matador "Migolito" in Spain, to a rasta moose in Trinidad and is now selling coffee in Costa Rica. Baby G was a banana exporter in the Bahamas, a picador in Spain, joined a pan band in Trinidad and is now starting the first Costa Rican baseball team. They are always joined by the locals, the hit of any anchorage and ready to party.
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