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DATE: JANUARY 18, 2017
FROM: MIKE GOWEN/MITCH SCHNEIDER, MSO PR
 LUCHA VAVOOM
CELEBRATE THEIR QUINCEANERA THIS YEAR
MARKING THE SHOW’S 15TH ANNIVERSARY
ANNUAL TWO-NIGHT VALENTINE’S DAY ENGAGEMENT
“TWISTED VALENTINE”
WITH SPECIAL GUEST COMEDIAN
RON FUNCHES
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AND THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9
AT THE MAYAN THEATRE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
FEATURING LIVE MEXICAN WRESTLING, BURLESQUE, COMEDY AND MORE
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW
 Feliz Quinceañera LUCHA VaVOOM!
2017 marks a big milestone for LUCHA VaVOOM–one of Los Angeles’ most celebrated variety shows–as they celebrate their 15th year of mind-blowing Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy. Founded in Los Angeles in 2002 by Rita D’Albert and Liz Fairbairn, two fearless pop culture visionaries who’ve been pivotal to the downtown Los Angeles renaissance, they keep amping up the inspired insanity of LUCHA VAVOOM. In a world that’s gone off the rails, LUCHA VAVOOM is needed more than ever for the collective psyche.
This year’s fun and madness gets underway with their annual two-night Valentine’s Day show on Wednesday, February 8 and Thursday, February 9 at The Mayan in downtown Los Angeles (doors at 7pm, show begins at 8pm).Tickets are on sale now can be purchased via TicketWeb, here.
This year’s show–billed as “Twisted Valentine”–will feature some of the most glamorous dancers and aerialists in the world, colliding with truly electrifying Mexican Wrestlers including: superstar CMLL Luchador, Mexico City’s RELAMPAGO versus Mexican masked mega-meanie MAGNO,singing sensation PRINCE POPPYCOCK with DIAMONDBACK ANNIE & LUX LACROIX,six-time Guinness World Record holder MARAWA THE AMAZING X CHARLIE LEMINDU, all your favorite luchadores: the bizarre love triangle of DIRTY SANCHEZ, JOEY RYAN and DAMA FINA plus THE CRAZY CHICKENS will literally light up the ring! “Twisted Valentine” will also highlight death-defying, pole-in-the air LEIGH ACOSTA who adds more girls this year to take it over the top, extra-twisted contortionist KRISTINA NEKYIA, OMG super-vixen MOANA SANTANA,and adorable aerial enchantress VERONICA YUNE! Special guest comedian and actor Ron Funches will bring his inspired irreverence. More highlights TBA.
 Photo credit: Timothy Norris About Lucha VaVOOM:
Founded in Los Angeles in 2002 by Rita D’Albert and Liz Fairbairn, LUCHA VaVOOM–the acclaimed and mind-blowing Mexican masked wrestling/burlesque/comedy ensemble voted Los Angeles’ “Best Burlesque Show” by LA Weekly for 2012 and 2013–is good vs. evil played out in quick, exhibition-style, one-fall Lucha Libre matches for maximum enjoyment and action. Arguably more rock than rock and more punk than punk, LUCHAVaVOOM 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). 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).”
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. The Los Angeles-based performance troupe has regularly sold out 1,000-seat venues across the globe (Amsterdam, Calgary, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland and Philadelphia, among many other cities), performed at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan and Big Day Out Festival in Australia since its birth in 2002 and call Los Angeles’ Mayan Theater–an elaborately appointed, 1927-built former motion-picture palace–home when not on the road. A sizzle reel featuring LUCHA VaVOOM highlights (high-octane Mexican-style lucha libre wrestling, traditional burlesque and blow-by-blow comedic commentary) can be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/nswes3x. Click here for LUCHA VaVOOM‘s EPK.
“There’s no show that’s funnier, sillier or more entertaining than this one.”
—Eric Idle (Monty Python)
“…no one that puts on a better lucha libre show than the folks at Lucha VaVOOM. Far wackier and wilder than most professional wrestling…Lucha VaVOOM lets its freak flag fly…”
“Lucha VaVOOM is an underground celebration of all things perfect in this world…Lucha VaVOOM is what will pass for primetime entertainment when the polar ice caps finally melt and there’s not a single drop of oil left to be squeezed from the planet. In the post-apocalyptic future Lucha VaVOOM’s mix of “sexo y violencia” will replace the Super Bowl, the Internet, and daytime television as humanity’s primary form of entertainment.”
“The over-the-top-wrestling-orgy of sexy ladies, masked men, and overall debauchery known as Lucha VaVOOM has long been a you’ve-either-seen-it-or-what-the-F-is-wrong-with-you proposition.”
Tickets are available at ticketweb.com and these outlets:
Wacko, 4633 Hollywood Blvd – (323) 663-0122 BRAT, 1938 14th St, Santa Monica – (310) 452-2480 For more information on Lucha VaVOOM, visit:
Click here for past Lucha VaVOOM press releases and assets
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