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DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2016
FROM: MIKE GOWEN/MITCH SCHNEIDER, MSO PR
 LUCHA VAVOOM
GEARS UP THIS WEEK’S ANNUAL TWO-NIGHT SPECTACULAR
“HALLOWEEN MADNESS”
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
RUPAUL’S SEASON 7 WINNER,
VIOLET CHACHKI IN HER L.A. BURLESQUE DEBUT! THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27
SOLD OUT
LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26
AT LUCHAVAVOOM.COM  Above: Artwork for “Halloween Madness” With anticipation growing for the annual two-night celebration, tickets are sold out for LUCHA VaVOOM’s Thursday (10/26) “Halloween Madness” show at The Mayan in downtown Los Angeles but fans can still purchase tickets for the Wednesday (10/27) installment. The two-night spectacular is even crazier this year with the addition of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 7 winner, VIOLET CHACHKI, who is bringing her tiny, 18-inch waist and ferocious glamazon style to slay LUCHA VaVOOM‘s audience. The innovative Violet will perform an aerial act for her sensational L.A. Burlesque debut.
LUCHA VaVOOM-one of Los Angeles’ most celebrated variety shows since 2002 where mind-blowing Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy gloriously collide-will continue their annual two-night “Halloween Madness” celebration on Wednesday, October 26 and Thursday, October 27.Doors at 7:00pm with show start at 8:00pm. For more information on tickets, visit: luchavavoom.com. Watch highlights from Lucha VaVOOM’s 2015 Halloween events here.
Fans are encouraged to attend in costume, and Heino is hosting the costume contest. This year’s haunted and lovably twisted celebration–billed as “Halloween Madness”–will feature: the rebirth of LIL’ CHICKEN (everyone’s favorite little wrestling chicken), the return of the incredible international hula hoop star KARIS, SPOOKY STRIPTEASERS (Kristina Nekyia and Carolina Cerisola), a performance from SIOBHAN FAHEY (Bananarama, Shakespeare’s Sister) of her new collaboration with Mexico’s TITAN, VAMPIRO BLANCO, all your favorite luchadores: DIRTY SANCHEZ, THE CRAZY CHICKENS, MAGNO, REY HORUS, JOEY RYAN, CHUPACABRAS and a Lucha VaVOOM debut of Damian 666! The night will also feature the final appearance of EL PRESIDENTE. And with “comedy creeps” Blaine Capatch and Jeff Davis delivering their insanely off-the-cuff commentary, expect a show that goes off the rails. 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
 Above: Violet Chachki
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