Emmy winning star of all three “Ice Age” films, “Carlito’s Way,” Baz Lurhmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!,” “To Wong Foo…” and “Executive Decision” stars in “Ghetto Klown”
Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo, known for his many film roles — as the voice of Sid in all three “Ice Age” films, Baz Lurhmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!,” “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,” “Carlito’s Way,” “Executive Decision,” and the current “One For The Money” starring Katherine Heigl – continues his US tour. Next stop for Ghetto Klown include Texas and Florida.
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; the Worthan Center Cullen Theatre in Houston February 23-25, The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in Orlando March 6, The David A. Stratz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa March 8, and the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami March 9-11.
The New York Times says that Leguizamo on stage is “irresistible. He has the energy of a 12-year old who has just downed a Red Bull and a jumbo package of Twinkies.” Variety says he is hyper-talented with “Dead-on and deliciously cruel impersonations.” The Los Angeles Times says he is “a nuclear performer, ricocheting around the stage as though he had been shot out of a pistol!”
John says, “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 Leguizamo and directed by Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens, “Ghetto Klown” is presented by WestBeth Entertainment.
Tickets now on sale; ticket information can be found at http://ghettoklown.com
Leguizamo, who has appeared in more than fifty films and was also seen on Nickelodeon series “The Brothers Garcia,” as well as on “ER” and “Miami Vice,” is also one of the nation’s most accomplished stage performers. “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 that populate 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 recently completed sensational engagements in London and Los Angeles, where LAist.com said, “The guy just possesses the stage with a spirit and an energy like no one else’s in the game today.” He performs in five cities in Texas in Feb 2012.
On Broadway, New York Magazine said he is “a 4,000 watt bulb of energy.” Broadway World said he is “screamingly funny.” The New York Daily News said, “He hits the stage like a gale force Hispanic hurricane.” And What’s on Stage.com warned that “at 47, he is still dangerously handsome, break dancing and body popping across the stage, firing off Hollywood impressions with gusto. Steven Seagal and Brian De Palma should watch their backs.”
“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.
WESTBETH ENTERTAINMENT, Arnold Engelman—President, is a producing organization that has successfully and consistently produced critically acclaimed, financially successful, groundbreaking entertainment for 30 years. From Billy Connolly to Eddie Izzard, John Leguizamo to The Jim Henson Company, Lewis Black to The Family Guy, WestBeth has been the creative catalyst, partner and producer of some of the most innovative productions in North America. Productions include Eddie Izzard’s Dress To Kill, Circle, Sexie, and Stripped—a 35 city US Tour, and his 2010 US Arena tour, Billy Connolly’s Too Old To Die Young tour in America and Canada, Lewis Black’s Nothing Sacred show at New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as Lewis’ Dual Citizenship Tour in Canada, Tommy Tiernan US dates, Dylan Moran US dates, Christopher Titus’ NEVERLUTION, Shaun Majumder’s Canada Tour, and Billy Connolly Live in Seattle, Boston, Chicago and his 2010 Canada tour ‘The Man Live’. Most recent productions include John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown on Broadway, Los Angeles and London, Eddie Izzard’s Stripped to on the Shore at the Shoreline Amphitheater and Stripped to the Bowl at Hollywood Bowl and Henson Alternative’s Stuffed And Unstrung tour. http://www.westbethent.com
Calendar Listing for “Ghetto Klown” U.S. Tour
Visit http://www.ghettoklown.com
Thursday – Saturday – Feb 23-25/jueves-sábado
Houston – Wortham Center Cullen Theatre, 501 Texas Ave. Houston TX 77002
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50
Phone 713-222-5400 M-F 10 am-5 pm
Online http://www.explorehouston.org/ticketing
Tuesday, March 6/martes 6 de marzo
Orlando – Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston St. Orlando, FL 32801
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50
Phone 800-745-3000
Online: Ticketmaster.com
Thursday, March 8/jueves 8 de marzo
Tampa- The David A. Stratz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts,
1010 North W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50
Phone 813-229-7827
Online: http://www.strazcenter.org
Friday-Sunday, March 9-11/viernes-domingo marzo 9-11
Miami- The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre,
1700 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50 premium seating also available.
Phone: 800-745-3000
Online: http://www.livenation.com
Florida será la próxima sede de la obra “Ghetto Klown” que estelariza y creó el conocido actor John Leguizamo, dirigida por Fisher Stevens. Su más reciente trabajo acaba de culminar su exitosa y aclamada temporada en Broadway en la ciudad de Nueva York, se presentó en Los Angeles con gran éxito y tuvo una aceptación sin precedentes en Colombia hace sólo unas semanas.
El trabajo del conocido actor incluye: la personificación de Sid en las tres ediciones de “Ice Age” filmes como , Baz Lurhmann’s “Romeo + Juliet”, “Moulin Rouge!,” “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,” “Carlito’s Way,” “Executive Decision,” y el más reciente “One For The Money” junto a Katherine Heigl entre otros.
Dicha puesta en escena tendrá lugar en: The Worthan Center Cullen Theatre en Houston 23-25 de febrero, The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre en Orlando el 6 de marzo, The David A. Stratz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts en Tampa 8 de marzo, y en el Fillmore Miami Beach en el Jackie Gleason Theater en Miami marzo 9-11.
Leguizamo comenta: “Me llena de emoción que toda mi gente estén asistiendo a mis presentaciones para ser testigos del más reciente capítulo de mi vida en el escenario; y mi meta es continuar presentando este proyecto hasta que mi hijo de 10 años herede todo de mi y se convierta en mi “understudy”.
Creada y actuada por el ganador de Emmy y Premio Obie, John Leguizamo y el director ganador de Premio de la Academia Fisher Stevens, GHETTO KLOWN es presentada por WestBeth Entertainment.
GHETTO KLOWN es el próximo capítulo en la popular personal y profesional vida de John Leguizamo y es su quinto “solo show”, y el tercero en Broadway. A este trabajo le anteceden Mambo Mouth, Spic-O-Rama, Freak y Sexaholix…a Love Story. En GHETTO KLOWN él da una mirada cercana y muy personal sin censura.
En su estilo muy particular, esta pieza explora con energía, llevando audiencias en una aventura ferviente, y calentando el escenario con vivencias en las cuales el presenta los coloridos personajes que han definido facetas a través de su vida: memorias de adolescente en Queens, los comienzos de su carrera y más allá; los desenfrenados 80s en la escena avant-garde del teatro, anécdotas de escenas de sus películas y sus papeles junto a algunas de las figuras más grandes del mundo del cine en Hollywood.
Leguizamo añade: GHETTO KLOWN es todas las cosas que sólo le comento a mi terapista y a mi manager, que jamás le contaría al público en general. Pero llegué a la conclusión que llevarlo a escena es más barato que una demanda legal y encima de esto puedo saludar y dar gracias al final del show. Es mi propia tragi-comedia”.
Calendario “Ghetto Klown” U.S. Tour
Visita http://www.ghettoklown.com
Thursday – Saturday – Feb 23-25/jueves-sábado
Houston – Wortham Center Cullen Theatre, 501 Texas Ave. Houston TX 77002
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50
Phone 713-222-5400 M-F 10 am-5 pm
Online http://www.explorehouston.org/ticketing
Tuesday, March 6/martes 6 de marzo
Orlando – Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston St. Orlando, FL 32801
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50
Phone 800-745-3000
Online: Ticketmaster.com
Thursday, March 8/jueves 8 de marzo
Tampa- The David A. Stratz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts,
1010 North W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50
Phone 813-229-7827
Online: http://www.strazcenter.org
Friday-Sunday, March 9-11/viernes-domingo marzo 9-11
Miami- The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre,
1700 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139
$29.50, $39.50 & $49.50 premium seating also available.
Phone: 800-745-3000
Online: http://www.livenation.com
WestBeth Entertainment, Arnold Engelman- (Presidente) – es una compañía que produce/promueve consistentemente aclamadas piezas y financieramente exitosas, y entretenimiento innovador en los últimos 30 años. Desde Billy Connolly a Eddie Izzard, Mike Myers a Lewis Black, John Leguizamo a Margaret Cho, Wigfield a Hedwig, y The Family Guy hasta Tenacious D. WestBeth ha sido un catalista de ideas, socio y productor de algunas de las producciones más únicas en su estilo que han salido en y fuera de Nueva York. Producciones incluyen: Billy Connolly “Too Old To Die Young” su Tour en Estados Unidos y Canada, Eddie Izzard “Dress To Kill”, “Circle”, “Sexie”, “Stripped” en una gira de 35 ciudades en los Estados Unidos en el 2008, 2010 US Arena Tour, Tour 2010 así como también la exitosa gira “Stripped” en Canada en esa primavera. Otros de sus créditos incluyen el show de Lewis Black “Nothing Sacred” en el Lincoln Center de Nueva York y en el Carnegie Hall así como el trabajo de Lewis titulado “Dual Citizenship” Tour en Canada y su edición mas reciente “In God We Rust” en el City Center de Nueva York durante 3 noches en el mes de abril del 2010. Otros proyectos incluyen “Stuffed And Unstrung” de Henson en la ciudad de Nueva York y su tour adicional, y “Neverlution” de Christopher Titus, exclusiva por tres noches en el New York City Center y el Just for Laughs Festival en Montreal, Dylan Moran Live in Los Angeles y San Francisco, Billy Conolly Live in Seattle, Boston, Chicago y su gira en Canada del 2010 titulada “The Man Alive”. Sus próximos proyectos incluyen los trabajos de Christopher Titus, Shaun Majumder, Mary Lynn Rajskub. http://www.westbethent.com
