This past year, Jesse Gelber & Kate Manning met, fell in love, and like so many young couples, started their own vaudeville act. Billed as “the latest musical gaiety” and “a musical cocktail of fizz, fun and frolic,” the troupe has since been performing at venues throughout New York City and Brooklyn, including The Triad, Café Steinhof, Banjo Jim’s, The Reprise Room at Dillon’s and Rodeo Bar. Jesse, a formidable stride pianist in New York’s traditional jazz scene and Kate, a veteran of Broadway and national touring musical comedies allied themselves where their two worlds met – in “raggy time.” The result is an act that combines musical improvisation with theatricality and showmanship. Traveling back to the vaudeville era in search of material, Jesse and Kate became the feuding lovers Gelber & Manning: the cantankerous barroom ivory tickler and the sweet singer who dotes persistently on her beau. Along for the ride are Charlie Caranicas o...