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NEWS RELEASE — “THE MISMATCH GAME” RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER FOR 2 NIGHTS ONLY — 3/14 and 3/1

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
and Dennis Hensley
Present

The MisMatch Game
WITH HOST DENNIS HENSLEY

AT LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER’S RENBERG THEATRE
Saturday, March 14 at 8pm
Sunday, March 15 at 7pm

The MisMatch GameIt’s time once again to “get ready to match the stars with a new edition of Dennis Hensley’s The MisMatch Game, the show the Los Angeles Times calls, “witty, ribald … an adventure in surrealist era bending.” The perennial LA cult favorite returns to the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre for two hilarious nights only, Saturday, March 14 at 8pm and Sunday, March 15 at 7pm.

Producer and host Dennis ‘Gene Rayburn’ Hensley will be joined onstage by a panel of some of LA’s most creative, hilarious, and demented comic minds. Fractured celebrity impersonations include such luminaries (living and otherwise) as Zooey Deschanel, Bea Arthur, Harvey Fierstein, Cher, Ricardo Montalbán, and Tim Gunn. The casts for Saturday 3/14 includes Willam Belli as Jessica Simpson, Rachel Butera as Wanda Sykes, Danny Casillas as Reba Arriva, Drew Droege as Tanya Roberts, Sam Pancake as Lucille Ball, and Tony Tripoli as Charles Nelson Reilly. On Sunday 3/15, the cast will be Jackie Beat as Bea Arthur, Maile Flanagan as Danny Bonaduce, Nadya Ginsburg as Cher, Tom Lenk as Zooey Deschanel, Felix Pire as Ricardo Montalbán, and Marc Samuel as Bill Cosby. Cast members subject to change. Hensley and company are once again generously donating the proceeds to benefit the Center’s array of free and low-cost services.

The MisMatch Game regularly fills the house at its irregularly scheduled gigs at the Renberg Theatre. Audiences keep coming back for the razor’s-edge improv (the panel has no clue what the questions will be) and the sassy, racy, and decidedly un-PC wit and wildness. The Advocate honored The MisMatch Game with a “10 Best Theatre” citation, saying, “This recurring Los Angeles happening re-imagines the ‘70s TV game show The MisMatch Game with full-camp press and excellent sub-lebrity impersonations.” With kitschy prizes for volunteer contestants pulled from the audience, it’s time to dig out that leisure suit for a racy, irreverent, side-splitting parody of ‘70s game show insanity.

The MisMatch Game will be played on Saturday, March 14 at 8pm and Sunday, March 15 at 7pm. General admission tickets are $15. All seats may be purchased online at www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. Net proceeds from all ticket sales will support the full range of free and low-cost programs and services offered by the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at the Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood. Free onsite parking is available.

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02-24-15

NEWS RELEASE — MOLLY RINGWALD AT CATALINA BAR & GRILL — TWO SHOWS ONLY, Sunday 3/8 at 7pm & 9:30pm

CHRIS ISAACSON PRESENTS
MOTION PICTURE ICON
AND
CONCORD RECORDING ARTIST
MOLLY RINGWALD
CELEBRATING HER DEBUT CD
“EXCEPT SOMETIMES”

CATALINA BAR & GRILL IN HOLLYWOOD
TWO SHOWS ONLY
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 AT 7PM & 9:30PM

Molly RingwaldChris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret have announced the final concerts of Molly Ringwald’s West Coast Tour on Sunday, March 8 at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood. The tour, which has included more than 160 performances in seven countries and is now on its way home to Los Angeles with upcoming appearances in San Francisco, San Diego, and Palm Springs, will play two shows at Catalina at 7pm and 9:30pm.

Long before for her starring roles in such films as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and The Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald was singing. She began performing with her father’s jazz band when she was only three years old and has never stopped. The shows at Catalina will return her to those early roots — she will perform a mix of songs from her new CD Except Sometimes (available on Concord Records) along with beloved hits from the Great American Songbook, creating a unique evening of unexpected musical connections. A Golden Globe-nominated actress at age 13, Ringwald is also known for several acclaimed stage performances including the 1998 revival of Cabaret, How I Learned to Drive, and Enchanted April on Broadway, and When Harry Met Sally in the West End.

Chris Isaacson Presents was recently nominated for four BroadwayWorld.com Awards for its presentation of concerts in 2014 starring Laura Benanti, Danny Gurwin, Jeremy Jordan, and Jennifer Holliday. For more information about the Molly Ringwald shows and upcoming CIP events visit www.ChrisIsaacsonPresents.com.

Molly Ringwald will play two performances only at the Catalina Bar & Grill, 6725 W. Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood on Sunday, March 8, at 7pm and 9:30pm. Doors open at 5:30pm for cocktail and dinner service for the 7pm show and doors open at 8:30 for the 9:30pm show. Single entrée or drink minimums apply. Admission is $35 for the 7pm show and $25 for the 9:30 show, and VIP seating is available for both. Purchases made before March 1 receive $5 off and online purchases will receive priority seating. Tickets are on sale now and may be obtained online at www.TicketWeb.com or by phone at (866) 468-3399.

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02-06-15

The Price Opens! (LAArtsOnline.com)

The PriceThe Price runs at The Mark Taper Forum February 11- March 22

The Price Opens!

By Ken Werther

When discussing legendary American playwright Arthur Miller, the first words that come up are Death of a Salesman, the watershed, historic winner of the 1949 Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama that introduced the American everyman Willy Loman to the world. Almost 20 years later, The Price opened on Broadway and New York Times critic Clive Barnes called it “…one of the most engrossing plays that Miller has ever written.” The Price has been revived on Broadway three times since its Broadway debut and it was adapted for television in 1971 and nominated for four Emmy Awards (winning two).

The Mark Taper Forum is reviving The Price, a play that has been described as a poignant story about the cost of choices made over a lifetime. Even with its impressive production and award history, this beautiful play is one of Arthur Miller’s lesser known. I’ve read but have never seen it and I am truly thrilled that I can be there on opening night to finally take it in. Directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes, the Taper cast will feature actors with combined accolades and awards too numerous to count; you really can’t do much better than Kate Burton, John Bedford Lloyd, Alan Mandell and Sam Robards.

I’ve been going to the theatre since I was a very little boy and sometimes I still get amazed by how many classic American plays have escaped me. Thanks Mark Taper Forum and here I come!

The Price plays at Mark Taper Forum, located at 135 N. Grand Ave, from February 11 to March 22.