Save the dates!
Mon. & Tu., May 19 & 20! * 7:30pm at Steinway Hall in West L.A.
Parlor Performances Annual Parlor Palooza!
Mega-Showcase featuring 8 mini-performances each night by comedians, cabaret artists, musical satirists, solo & historical shows -- all addressing themes of Immigration, Globalization and/or The Environment!
Featured artists will include... The Sultans of Satire (Mid-East comic relief!) Award-winning monologist Jude Narita Fred Blanco's Stories of Cesar Chavez
"Sultans of Satire" features an impressive line-up of some 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. Sultans shows can range from 3 to 8 comedians. www.sultansofsatire.com
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. www.jayleonhart.com
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. www.judenarita.com
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. www.storiesofcesarchavez.com
Vicki Juditz (think Sarah Vowell!) hilarious, hard-hitting new show on Going Green! Stephanie Satie's Coming to America; Refugees
"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 * New works feature hilarious and poignant pieces on "going green" and gun control.
"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. www.refugeestheplay.com
These evenings are being presented as a showcase for performing arts presenters, as well as special event and non-profit program directors. Please tell friends and colleagues!
Steinway Hall @ Fields Pianos * 12121 W. Pico Bl. (1 door w. of Bundy * Level P2) * Park free! *
RSVP to Jeannine Frank @ (310) 476-6735 or * Jeannine@FrankEntertainment.com
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