Parlor Performances Presents Socially Responsible Mega-Showcase! - Monday & Tuesday, May 19th & 20th, 7:30 PM - Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos * 12121 W. Pico Blvd., LA
Parlor Performances’ Socially Responsible Mega-Showcase!
Proceeds to Benefit Disaster Relief Organizations!
Monday & Tuesday, May 19th & 20th at 7:30 PM
Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos - 12121 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles
(1 door w. of Bundy - Level P2) ~ Park Free
$15 up to any amount (cash or check only)
8 mini-performances nightly by comics, musical satirists, solo theatre all addressing themes of Immigration, Globalization &/or The Environment!
The Sultans of Satire (Mid-East comic relief! – 3 different sultans each night!) "Sultans" features an impressive line-up of today’s most talented comedians of Middle Eastern descent-more than a dozen men and women of Arab, Israeil, Iranian, Armenian, Greek & Turkish heritage.
World’s wittiest bass player/songwriter/singer Jay Leonhart … "Add Jay Leonhart to the small, very exclusive list of jazz humorists… …Oscar Brown Jr., Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough…" Don Heckman, LA Times * The show begins with Leonhart attempting to give the audience its bass lesson, but sensing that maybe the audience is not so devoted to bass viol studies, his "lesson" quickly and skillfully turns into a series of funny and touching songs and vignettes about life, with or without a bass in tow.
Award-winning monologist Jude Narita… Excerpts from Narita’s award-winning dramatic and humorous one-woman plays about Asian and Asian American women celebrating our differences, while illuminating the universal similarities of us all. Narita’s women are breaking stereotypes, creating true identity, surviving war, surviving internment, cherishing family, and holding onto their dreams for the future.
Fred Blanco’s Stories of Cesar Chavez… This one man theatrical presentation depicts the life and times of Cesar E. Chavez, one of the most inspirational and influential civil rights leaders of our time. The play offers a compelling look at the man and his struggle for equality through the eight various characters brought to life on stage.
Vicki Juditz (think Sarah Vowell!) hilarious, hard-hitting new show on Going Green!… "a born storyteller… what sets her writing, and her performance, apart is her sense of humor, and an eye for the incongruous and ridiculous." L.A. Times * Frequently compared to Sarah Vowell and David Sedaris, Juditz is an Ovation Award winner (LA’s Tony equivalent). "Juditz employs empathy and a self-deprecating humor that lay bare the foibles and tragedy of the human condition, causing us to reflect on our own moral choices." LA Weekly
Stephanie Satie’s Coming to America; Refugees… "an intimate, affecting solo meditation on political and cultural persecution." Los Angeles Times "Coming to America" presents a portrait gallery of 8 women whose lives have been transformed first, by extraordinary events in their country of birth, and then by their response to America. This piece includes women from Afghanistan, Iraq, Armenia, Cambodia, El Salvador, India, Iran, Russia and the former Yugoslavia.
Just added! Brilliant political satirists Darryl Henriques and Betsy Salkind!
Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (1 door w. of Bundy * Level P2) * Park free! *
RSVP to Jeannine Frank * (310) 471-3979 * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com
