John Leguizamo Live @ The Fillmore

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”

 

Three Nights Only — March 9-11, 2012

The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater

Miami tickets on sale Friday November 18 – visit ghettoklown.com,

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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,”  and “Executive Decision” — performs his Broadway show “Ghetto Klown” for three performances only March 9-11 at the The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater as part of his 2012 US tour.

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.

 

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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 four 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. www.westbethent.com

 

 

Calendar Listing for “Ghetto Klown” Miami Beach

Dates:     Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 9-11

Venus:    The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre,

1700 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139

 

Price:      $29.50, $39.50, $49.50 plus facility fee and ticketing service charges;

premium seating also available.

Tickets:  The Fillmore Miami Beach box office or at www.livenation.com.

 

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