New Conservatory Theatre Presents Adult Night of Cabaret

NCTC is proud to present "Tom Orr in I Feel a Thong Coming On!" Previews are August 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd and the show opens Saturday, August 23rd. All performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 2pm at The New Conservatory Theatre Center (Theatre III), located at 25 Van Ness Ave. near Market St. in San Francisco, 94102. Tickets are $18 for previews and $28 for all other performances (NCTC Subscribers receive $3 off per ticket). Tickets are available at the NCTC Box Office (415) 861-8972, or online at www.nctcsf.org.

After two successful runs of his solo show, iTom_shuffle, at San Francisco's The Garage, and this past spring at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood, Tom Orr is wrapping up the 2008 Summer Cabaret Series with his new act, I Feel a Thong Coming On! With dozens of dirty little ditties in his risqué repertoire, Orr has reunited with his original Dirty Little Showtunes! collaborators, director F. Allen Sawyer and musical director Scrumbly Koldewyn, to build this new piece made up of his filthiest, funniest, raunchiest and bawdiest Broadway parodies. His provocative lyrics are set to familiar melodies from such shows as Wicked, Aida, The Producers, Annie, Oklahoma!, Hello, Dolly!, Gypsy, Funny Girl, Hairspray, Disney & more, all with a xx twist!

Since 1997, award-winning San Francisco lyricist-playwright-singer-dancer-actor-comedian-director and "musical comedy cabaret porn star" Tom Orr entertains with his smart, satirical parodies, i.e. Dirty Little Showtunes!, his critically-acclaimed, crowd-pleasing cult hit revue that has enjoyed successful productions in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Houston & the 2006 Minneapolis Fringe Festival, won a Bay Area Theatre Critics award, and was "perhaps the gayest show ever!" (Bay Area Reporter).

Variously called "the Lenny Bruce of musical parody" and "the love child of Al Parker and Dorothy Parker," Orr is well-known for baring all (or nearly all) in his bawdy burlesque turns in Dirty Little Showtunes!, Howard Crabtree's Whoop-Dee-Doo! NCTC's 2007 production of Take Me Out, his previous solo act, Of Me I Sing, Baby!; as "The Perky Little Porn Star" in Naked Boys Singing! (2000 San Francisco and 2001 Provincetown casts); as well as for quirky quick-change character work in G-rated fare such as The Fantasticks, Mack & Mabel, Li'l Abner, One Touch of Venus, Pardon My English, Plain & Fancy, Shopping! The Musical, Simply Sondheim: A 75th Birthday Salute, Trog! and Coco, opposite Andrea Marcovicci, who lovingly dubbed Orr a "scene-stealing whore."

As a relative newcomer to the adult film industry, known as Tom Lazzari, he was nominated for a 2006 GayVN Award, the industry's "Oscar," for his scene in TitanMedia's "Closed Set: Titan Stage One." Successfully conquering an unfortunate crystal meth addiction three years ago, Orr/Lazzari has become an outspoken advocate in the fight against speed use in the gay community, writing songs about his recovery and contributing his time and talents to a variety of outreach campaigns, including the Stonewall Project and www.tweaker.org's "Hot Sex Without Crystal? Hell Yeah!" and Better World Advertising's "Resist Meth" sites.

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