TODD
ROBBINS has done a wide variety of things during his career . . . a number of
them were even legal. Classically trained as an actor at the American Conservatory
Theatre, he has spent a lifetime immersed in American popular entertainment.
Todd is a featured performer
with Sideshows by the Seashore (at Coney Island), the last remaining sideshow
in America. With this show, he eats glass, walks over broken bottles, sticks
his hand into animal trap, hammers a four and a half inch nail into his nose,
eats fire, swallows swords, breaks a cinder block brick on top of his head with
a sledge hammer and blows up a hot water bottle until it bursts. The most remarkable
thing about all this is that it's all real without an ounce of trickery. He has
taken these classic sideshow stunts, put his own comic spin on them, and created
one of the most amazing and amusing acts in show business. Todd has performed
this one man concert of "deception free amazement" at The Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., the Carnegie Recital Hall, at colleges and universities
across the country
and on the television shows of David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Howard
Stern and Geraldo Rivera.
Todd has been associated with the Big Apple Circus for more than a dozen
years (performing in various roles including the ringmaster) and can often be
seen playing piano with Woody Allen's
jazz band at the Cafe Carlyle. As part of a parole agreement, Todd performs
regularly at New
York’s longest running Off-Broadway magic show, Monday Night Magic.