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NEWS RELEASE ✰ BROADWAY FAVORITE DAVID BURNHAM IN CONCERT ▪︎ TUESDAY 7/17 at 8:30pm IN HOLLYWOOD

DAVID BURNHAM
“LIVE BY DEMAND!”

ONE SHOW ONLY
CATALINA BAR & GRILL IN HOLLYWOOD
TUESDAY, JULY 17 AT 8:30PM

Chris Isaacson Presents has announced that master vocalist and Broadway sensation David Burnham will be appearing for one night only with his show Live by Demand! at Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood on Tuesday, July 17, at 8:30pm.

David Burnham will entertain his audience with tales from the Great White Way and beyond singing favorite tunes from Broadway and the American Songbook. Featuring songs from Wicked, Jersey Boys, Cabaret, Chicago, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The King And I, Guys and Dolls, and more. Musical direction is by Mark Vogel.

Burnham was last seen on Broadway as Fiyero in Wicked, a role he originated in the developmental workshops of the show. He was in the original Broadway of the musical The Light in the Piazza, performing both on the Tony Awards and the PBS telecast Live from Lincoln Center. He is the recipient of the prestigious Helen Hayes Award for Best Actor as well as the Best Actor Garland Award for his portrayal of Fabrizio in the National Tour of The Light in the Piazza. Burnham first gained critical acclaim when he was chosen to replace Donny Osmond as Joseph in the National Tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and he toured nationally in Jesus Christ Superstar. Last year in New York, he starred in the new off-Broadway show The Best is Yet to Come – The Music of Cy Coleman. He is the voice of the Prince in the Warner Bros. animated feature The King and I and can be heard on the soundtracks of Ghepetto and Home on the Range. Burnham performs with symphony orchestras all over the country. He has recorded two solo albums, his self-titled CD and “One Day.”

Chris Isaacson Presents (CIP) has created, produced, and promoted over 700 events since the company’s founding in 2004. From small clubs to major theatres, CIP has presented some of the most influential stars of this generation. Most recently, CIP coordinated and produced an elaborate extravaganza for the new series POSE (FX Networks) at LA Pride 2018, and the inaugural West Coast charitable event “GAIN: Brighter Futures” starring Alisan Porter (winner of NBC’s The Voice) and Grammy Award-winner Thelma Houston for Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in Beverly Hills. For more information on upcoming CIP events, including Richard Shelton (June 29), Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young (July 26 & 28), and jazz chanteuse Raya Yarbrough (September 14), go to www.ChrislsaacsonPresents.com.

Admission for David Burnham Live by Demand is $25–$50 and tickets may be purchased online at www.ChrisIsaacsonPresents.com or www.ticketweb.com or by phone at (866) 468-3399. Doors open at 7pm for cocktail and dinner service (minimums apply) and show time is 8:30pm. Catalina Bar & Grill is located at 6725 W. Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

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06/29/18

 

NEWS RELEASE ✰ ‘THE MISMATCH GAME’ RETURNS TO LGBT CENTER ▪︎ Sat 7/28 and Sun 7/29

Los Angeles LGBT Center’s
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
and Dennis Hensley
Present
THE MISMATCH GAME
CREATED AND HOSTED BY DENNIS HENSLEY

NOW IN ITS 14TH HILARIOUS YEAR!

TWO NIGHTS ONLY
Saturday, July 28 & Sunday, July 29

It’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 side-splitting parody of the ‘70s game show returns to the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre for two hilarious nights on Saturday, July 28, at 8pm and Sunday, July 29, at 7pm.

Creator, producer, and host Dennis “Gene Rayburn” Hensley will be joined onstage by a panel of some LA’s most creative, hilarious, and demented minds. Hensley and company are once again generously donating the proceeds to benefit the Center’s array of free and low-cost services. Since its debut in 2004, The MisMatch Game has raised well over $100,000 for the Los Angeles LGBT Center. With kitschy prizes for volunteer contestants pulled from the audience, it’s time to dig out that leisure suit for another run of the perennial cult favorite.

Fractured celebrity impersonations include such luminaries (living and otherwise!) as Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Harvey Fierstein, Cher, Ricardo Montalbán, and Pee Wee Herman. Visit www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre for casting news. All appearances are subject to availability.

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 and the racy, anarchic, and decidedly un-PC wit and wildness. The Advocate honored The MisMatch Game with a “10 Best Theatre” citation that said, “This recurring Los Angeles happening re-imagines the ‘70s TV game show The Match Game with full-camp press and excellent sub-lebrity impersonations.”

General admission tickets are $15 and may be purchased online at www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood, 90038.

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06/29/18

NEWS RELEASE ✰ HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL HIT “DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE” SET FOR EXTENDED RUN ▪︎ JULY 12 – 29

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and Blanket Fort Entertainment
Present
Hollywood Fringe Festival Breakout Hit
DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE
Written and Performed by Burt Grinstead and Anna Stromberg
Directed by Anna Stromberg
OPENS THURSDAY, JULY 12
FOR TEN PERFORMANCES ONLY

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and Blanket Fort Entertainment have announced an extended run of the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival breakout hit Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Nominated for six HFF Awards including Best Comedy, winner of the 2CentsTheatre Award for Distinctive Voices, and winner of the SoHo Playhouse (NYC) Fringe Encore Series Award, this genre-bending thriller had its world premiere at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre and returns for 10 performances only, July 12 through July 29.

Written and performed by Burt Grinstead and Anna Stromberg, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a dizzying, fast-paced, horrifying and hilarious extravaganza that leaves the audience questioning its own morality. Based on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the classic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, this new adaptation takes place on the dismal streets of London in the 1860s, where societal pressures silence a gentle doctor’s questions about the nature of morality. As the pressure intensifies,  Dr. Jekyll takes matters into his own hands.  Will his efforts save the world, or will they destroy all that he holds dear? After all, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Burt Grinstead has starred in films and television shows including Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and many more. This is Grinstead’s fourth role at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, following dynamic performances in Deathtrap by Ira Levin, Hit the Wall by Ike Holter, and Fool for Love by Sam Shepard. He was nominated for an Ovation Award for his portrayal of twins Peter and Craig in Dying City by Christopher Shinn at Rogue Machine Theatre.

Anna Stromberg lived and worked in New York City for 10 years performing in various off-Broadway theatres. She was a longtime member of the edgy Amoralists Theatre Company, originating roles in collaborations with Daniel Aukin, Adam Rapp, and Lyle Kessler. She won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Vanda in Venus in Fur by David Ives at The Cape Fear Playhouse. She also stars in Well Wishes on Netflix and in the indie horror feature The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan. Last year, Stromberg directed a renowned production of David Harrower’s Blackbird at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

The opening of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is set for Thursday, July 12, at 8pm.  The running schedule is as follows — Friday, July 13 at 8pm; Saturday, July 14 at 8pm; Sunday, July 15 at 7pm; Friday, July 20 at 8pm; Saturday, July 21 at 2pm; Sunday, July 22 at 7pm; Friday, July 27 at 8pm; Saturday, July 28 at 8pm; and Sunday, July 29 at 2pm. General admission tickets are $20 and may be purchased online at www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre is located at 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood, 90038.

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06/28/18