NASHVILLE |DATE: JUNE 21, 2011
FROM: TODD BRODGINSKI/MITCH SCHNEIDER/AARON FETERL
LUCHA VaVOOM’s
SPECIAL SUMMER SPECTACULAR JUST ANNOUNCED:
THE 9TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
ONE NIGHT ONLY
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18
AT THE MAYAN THEATRE
IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
STARRING LEGENDARY LUCHADORE HIJO DEL SANTO!!!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Coming off two simultaneous “Cinco de Mayan” sold-out shows May 5 at the Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles and at Chicago’s Park West, LUCHA VaVOOM have announced their 9th anniversary SPECIAL SUMMER SPECTACULAR. The no-holds-barred show will take place Thursday, August 18 at Los Angeles’ Mayan Theatre and will star legendary Luchadore Hijo Del Santo (“Son of the Saint”), one of the most successful stars in Lucha Libre. In a first, LUCHA VaVOOM–the mind-blowing and acclaimed Mexican masked wrestling/burlesque/comedy ensemble–are asking their fiercely devoted followers to help curate the show.
Fans can email LUCHA VaVOOM letting them know who they want to see wrestle, what wrestling matches and dancers they would like to see and which acts they would like the dancers to perform. If LUCHA VaVOOM picks your idea, you will win a pair of tickets to the show and photos with the wrestlers and dancers of your choice. Fans can enter the contest by emailing their answers to: contest@luchavavoom.com. Winners will be notified by email on July 5. Fans can enter as many times as they like as long as their answers are different. Entries must be received by July 1.
Founded in Los Angeles in 2003 by Rita D’Albert and Liz Fairbairn, Lucha VaVOOM is good vs. evil played out in quick, exhibition-style, one-fall Lucha Libre matches for maximum enjoyment and action. The Los Angeles Times said, “Far-out flamboyance always prevails at Lucha VaVOOM, a spectacle of Mexican freestyle wrestling with an L.A. twist (7/09/06).”
Arguably more rock than rock and more punk than punk, Lucha VaVOOM has created a Los Angeles tradition: from the low-rider car parade escorting the performers as the crowd enters the iconic Mayan Theater, to the local luminaries they attract (Drew Carey and Jack Black have sat in), to Burlesque (which was revived right here in Los Angeles), to Lucha Libre, where masked heroic wrestlers, in character-driven style, flip, fly and amaze. It all comes together to make one fun, surreal, glam-bam spectacle of raucous entertainment. You could say it’s a wrestling show for people that don’t like wrestling (and those that do).
At Lucha VaVOOM, they like a little sexo with their violencia. In between matches, the finest handpicked burlesque acts from around the world wow the crowds with their unique striptease skills, including raucous aerial acts, pogo-stick peelers and hula-hoop hotties.
Tickets available online or at these fine stores:
Wacko 4633 Hollywood Blvd & BRAT 1938 14th St, Santa Monica
http://luchavavoom.com/
http://twitter.com/LuchaVaVOOM
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.youtube.com/LuchaVaVoomVideo
–Link to AOL’S “YOU’VE GOT”: http://video.aol.com/video/youve-got-lucha-vavoom/72057660955930506
–Link to photo gallery at LA Weekly.com (from the Feb 2011 Mayan Theatre shows):
http://www.laweekly.com/slideshow/lucha-va-voom-kinky-valentine-show-32551686/
–Here’s a sampling of what the press has to say:
“Lucha VaVoom has a big future.”
Time Magazine
“… It’s enough to make even the most jaded Hollywood insider jump up and yell ‘Smackdown.’”
Rolling Stone
“Lucha VaVoom is the most exciting, bonkers show I’ve seen in ages.”
The FACE (U.K.)
“A madcap mix of Mexican wrestling, comedy, and vintage burlesque. I love, love, love it.”
Vanity Fair
“With this perfectly balance evening of sex, comedy & comicbook violence, the populace of earth deserves nothing less than a global tour. Everyone needs a little Lucha VaVoom in their life.”
Bizarre (U.K.)
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