John Leguizamo - Ghetto Klown |
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Date: Tuesday February 14, 2012
Time: 8:00 PM Details:
John Leguizamo will perform, live on stage, his Broadway smash hit “Ghetto Klown”, directed by Fisher Stevens, on a five-city tour of Texas in February 2012. This will be the first time that he has performed in these cities since his record breaking tour of “SEXAHOLIX … a love story” eight years ago. The venues include Paramount Theatre in Austin February 9-11; American Bank Center Selena Auditorium in Corpus Christi on February 14; The Majestic Theatre in Dallas February 16-18; The McAllen Civic Auditorium in McAllen on February 21; and the Worthan Center Cullen Theatre in Houston February 23-25. Leguizamo said, “I love that all my peoples are showing up to witness the latest chapter of my life on stage; I want to keep this show open until I’ve messed up my 10 year old son enough for him to be my understudy.” Conceived and performed by Emmy and Obie Award winner John Leguizamo and directed by Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens, “Ghetto Klown” is presented by WestBeth Entertainment. “Ghetto Klown” is the next chapter in John Leguizamo’s popular personal and professional story. It is his fifth one-man play, his third on Broadway, and follows in the uninhibited tradition of his “Mambo Mouth,” “Spic-O-Rama,” “Freak,” and “Sexaholix … a Love Story.” In Leguizamo’s trademark style, the piece explodes with energy, heating up the stage with vivid accounts of the colorful characters who have populated his life. He takes audiences from his adolescent memories in Queens to the early days of his acting career and on to the sets of major motion pictures and his roles opposite some of Hollywood's biggest stars.Leguizamo explains, ““Ghetto Klown” is all the things I say to my therapist and my manager, but would never want the general public to know. It’s cheaper than a lawsuit and I get to take a bow at the end. It’s like Wikileaks but with no international manhunt. Yet.” Currently performing the piece six performances a week at Charing Cross Theatre in London (Oct 25-Nov 12, 2011), Leguizamo just completed a sensational engagement in Los Angeles – where the Los Angeles Times said that he is “a nuclear performer, ricocheting around the stage as though he had been shot out of a pistol! This dancing dynamo and ace mimic, provides a tour --the high points and lows -- of his career in showbiz in his hip-hop version of the talking cure.” On Broadway, the New York Times said that “Ghetto Klown” is ”hilarious and irresistible - Leguizamo has the energy of a 12 year old who just downed a Red Bull and a jumbo package of Twinkies as he bops, boogies and break-dances across the stage re-living his rollicking subway ride of life from obscurity to celebrity in Hollywood and New York." “Ghetto Klown” was showcased in earlier incarnations in cities including Philadelphia, New Haven, Santa Fe, Louisville, La Jolla, Berkeley, Toronto, and at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival. *Select H-E-B's: |
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