#LastDance Comes to the Hollywood Fringe Festival
RealQueerStories in collaboration with One City One Pride, the City of West Hollywood, Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 and Asylum presents #LastDance. A show within a show where things get real once the makeup comes off. when queens are brought together for a memorial, the truth comes out how they ended up in Los Angeles, how they really feel about drag, each other and themselves. ASYLUM @ McCadden Place Theatre - 1157 N. McCadden Place Hollywood, CA 90038.
It's BOYS IN THE BAND with a little PARIS IS BURNING thrown in! #LastDance with make audiences rethink what really is behind the wigs, makeup and heels and find out they are people just like them.
With a special cast and crew of diverse, gender non-conformists, non binary, trans and cis gendered actors and allies, this mix of amazing talent is sure to blow the audiences away with their authenticity and electricity onstage! A directorial debut of, downtown queen, Miss Barbie Q in collaboration with theatre director, Cinnamon Rivera, they created the organization RealQueerStories, after working together on EASTSIDE QUEER STORIES last year at Little Casa Theatre in Boyle Heights, CA. With Mari Mercado on as Associate Producer and original music from LGBT artists: Robbie McDaniel, Sounds of Asteroth and Sister Mantos, her expertise and their music will add an even further special touch to the whole production.
WHAT:
#LastDance
WHO:
Presented by: RealQueerStories in collaboration with One City One Pride, the City of West Hollywood, Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 and Asylum
Directed by: Miss Barbie Q and Cinnamon Rivera
Written by: Miss Barbie Q and Cinnamon Rivera
CAST:
Chela Demuir as GAIL STORM
Miss Barbie Q as RACHEL MONROE
Karlo Ishibashi as HELEN HEELS
Christian Ferrer as SEMI SWEET CHARITY
and introducing Zo Anthony Shay as DANNY
WHERE: Hollywood Fringe Festival, ASYLUM @ McCadden Place Theatre - 1157 N. McCadden Place Hollywood, CA 90038
WHEN:
Sun, June 4th @7p PREVIEW
Sun, June 11th @10:30p
Sun, June 18th @1p
Fri, June 23rd @7:30p
Sat, June 24th @8:30p CLOSING SHOW
ADMISSION: 21+
TICKETS: $12 with comps available for members of the press upon request
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4184?tab=tickets
HOW:
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4184?tab=details
SOCIAL:
Facebook Page
Facebook Event Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/810577775747334/
About.Me
https://about.me/hashtaglastdance
https://twitter.com/RealQueerStory
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