Currently playing:
THE COMEDY WHERE? HOUSE AT THE
P-HOUSE - a reunion show
featuring long time improvisational
performers who were displaced from their
hugely popular nightly shows when Disney
World closed the doors of The Comedy
Warehouse at Pleasure Island one year
ago this month.
The show, being
presented in conjunction with
Excellent Adventures Productions at
the Footlight Theater, brings together
longtime PI favorites Layden Sadecky,
Mark Lainer, Matt Horohoe, Krista
Miller, and Mary Thompson Hunt,
with Carol Stein on Piano, all of
whom faithfully employ the familiar
improvisation-with-music format so
successfully utilized for years at the
former Disney comedy venue.
The final
performance of THE COMEDY WHERE?
HOUSE AT THE P- HOUSE will be
presented on Sunday, January 3, 2010
at 6 PM.
This final
performance is a designated OFFICIAL
WANZeGRAM Subscriber Outing. Join Wanzie
and the staff of the WANZeGRAM for this
very special show on Sunday at 6 PM.
Tickets now on
sale: $12
www.WANZIE.com/boxoffice
HILARIOUS PARODY -
DIRECT FROM NYC
THE BLUE LAGOON: A Musical,
a subversively funny take on the classic
tale of shipwrecked teen cousins in
lust, will open on January 6, 2010, for
two shows only, at The Footlight Theatre
in Orlando.
THE BLUE LAGOON: A Musical
is based on Henry de Vere Stacpoole's
1908 novel, The Blue Lagoon: A
Romance, which has inspired several
stage and screen adaptations over the
years, including the infamous 1980 film
starring Brooke Shields and Christopher
Atkins. The latest incarnation -
featuring book, music, and lyrics by
Jonathan Padget - premiered at the
2007
Capital Fringe
Festival in Washington, D.C.,
where it enjoyed a sold-out run and an
enthusiastic response from audiences and
critics.
Nelson Pressley of The Washington Post
praised the show
for its "lovely melodic themes," and its
"playful, alternative style: two goofy
performers and an inflatable baby pool
as the lagoon in question - how Fringe
is that?"
The New York premiere of The Blue
Lagoon: A Musical at New York
Cringe Fest 2009 featured Shayna
Albertson (2008 graduate of NYU
Tisch School of the Arts) as Emmeline,
and
Anthony Johnson,
who recently performed in the
NETworks North American and Asian tour
of the musical Hairspray.
The production of The Blue Lagoon,
as directed by Orlando's own Kenny
Howard at The Producers Club in
Manhattan, garnered multiple Cringe
Festival awards, including a Best Actor
award for Johnson and a Directing award
for Howard.
It is that award-winning New York
production which is being faithfully
recreated at the Parliament House, lock,
stock, and wading pool. Shayna Albertson
and Anthony Johnson are being flown in
from NYC to re-create their roles in
this funky little musical send-up of
this classic tale of two teenage cousins
who get jiggy with one another in an
untamed paradise. The show will be
preceded by the stand up comedy of
Orlando funnyman JEFF JONES.
Jones has been making quite a name for
himself, not only with his monthly
Mo Laughs Comedy open mic
showcase, but also by performing as the
opening act for various events at Hard
Rock Live!
THE BLUE LAGOON: A
Musical
Adaptation, Music, & Lyrics
Jonathan
Padget
Directed by
Kenny Howard
Starring
Anthony Johnson &
Shayna Albertson
Saturdays, January
9 & 16, 2010 Curtain: 8 PM
The Footlight
Theatre
$12
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ANTHONY JOHNSON - ONE MAN CABARET
Wanzie
Presents' Artistic Director Kenny
Howard has engaged the talents of
Orlando Musical Director John B.
deHaas to accompany New York's
Anthony Johnson for a one-night-only
Cabaret act to be presented at the
Parliament House on Sunday, January
10, 2010 at 6 PM.
Johnson and Howard
last worked together in New York City
where Howard mounted Jonathan Paget's
THE BLUE LAGOON: A Musical, which
won multiple Cringe Festival Awards,
including a Best Actor win for Johnson.
Johnson, 26,
graduated from Catawba, a small North
Carolina liberal arts college. While
still a student, Anthony was chosen to
study at the prestigious Governor's
School of North Carolina, and later
at the American Dance Theatre in
Durham. The "triple threat" performer
also spent two years in Japan singing
live and dancing in shows at Universal
Studios, and has appeared in productions
such as Damn Yankees, Oklahoma, Gypsy,
Cats, and others.
In a recent
National Tour of the Broadway musical
Hairspray, Anthony
Johnson played I.Q., "the nicest kid in
town," who danced on the Corny Collins
Show. He also finished in the top 3 in
the highly publicized online audition
contest for placement in the Broadway
show, RENT, but the show
closed before the contestants had the
opportunity to vie for the final casting
prize.
This versatile
performer, who first made a name for
himself by posting You Tube videos of
himself singing from his bed, was last
seen in Orlando in Wanzie Presents'
ANTHONY JOHNSON: From
YouTube To You, under the
direction of Kenny Howard at the
Footlight Theatre.
Specific details
on the now-being-created Cabaret by
Johnson, deHaas, and Howard will be
fourth coming in the very near future.
Tickets (Only $10)
will go on sale on Friday, January 8,
2010.
LOGO TV &
MUSIC VIDEO STAR - JONNY McGOVERN
Gay
pop superstar, TV personality, and
nightlife legend, "Gay Pimp"
Jonny McGovern blazed onto the New York
scene in 2000 with his satirical mix of
his character comedy and dirty gay hits,
and his fire continues to burn bright.
Jonny produced his
debut album Dirty Gay Hits in
collaboration with IDM producer,
Secret Agent Gel. Together they
crafted a collection of Gay Pimp-themed
songs such as Soccer Practice, Lookin'
Cute/Feelin' Cute, and Hey Lil'
Raver Boi. Jonny then created a
dirty gay teen pop style nightclub act
with a bevy of soccer/raver boi dancers,
a gay rapper, and fierce drag queens
workin' the runway. Jonny headlined all
over Manhattan, including Homocorps
at the legendary CBGB's, Joe's
Pub, Splash Bar NY, LUXX, and opened
for Peaches and Chicks on
Speed at The Electro Clash
Festival, as well as at his own
white hot parties such as Boys Gone
Wild, and The Rambles at The Park.
The Gay Pimp
became an Internet and international
phenomenon. Teaming up with Broadway
veteran Richard Jay-Alexander and
Director Peter Martinez, Jonny
created a video for Soccer Practice
which debuted in the top five of the
National Video Club chart, and was
downloaded over 2.2 million times from
GayPimp.com, as well as getting play on
MTV Europe and MTV Asia.
Jonny also toured nightclubs around the
country as Gay Pimp, and headlined the
legendary Caroline's On Broadway.
Jonny broke into TV with several high
profile gigs. Comedy Central's
Out On The Edge, hosted by Alan
Cumming, brought Jonny's Gay Pimp
revue to a national audience. For an
entire season Ricki Lake
highlighted his comedy and solidified
his status as a ghetto superstar. He
then appeared on VH1, first being
profiled on Totally Gayer, and
then starring on My Coolest Years.
Jonny then released the smash music
video Lookin' Cute/Feelin' Cute.
His weekly podcast Gay Pimpin' with
Jonny McGovern, is the most popular
gay/weekly/comedy show on iTunes.
Jonny continues
his gay world domination with This Is
NYC Bitch: The East Village Mixtape,
which has him producing new artists,
including the tranny rap supergroup
La'Mady, ball queen MECCA,
Peppermint Gummybear, Tranzcore
rocker Linda James, and his new
side group TEAM PIMP. Along with
podcast co-host Martín Beauchamp,
he has started a record label,
Gay/Nerd Music on which he is
releasing his long awaited CD Gays
Gone Wild. He is a cast member on
The Big Gay Sketch Show produced by
Rosie O'Donnell for the LOGO
television network.
Jonny will be
giving a very affordably-priced solo
performance at THE FOOTLIGHT THEATRE on
January 23, 2010, where he will combine
live singing of some of his greatest
hits with his very "Gay Pimp" style of
stand up comedy.
Gay Pimp
JONNY McGOVERN Live!
A Night of Faggity Fun
Saturday, January
23, 2010 Curtain: 8 PM
$20
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DRAG
COMEDY TROUPE PRESENTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN
SCENES
The hilarious TWISTED
SISTERS COMEDY HOUR troupe returns to
the stage in an all-new production
featuring a hi-camp montage of scenes
from famous movies and TV shows that
ended up on the cutting room floor or on
the daily 'blooper' reel.
Three of Orlando's
most infamous female impersonation
comediennes - Miss Sammy, Gidget
Galore, and Carol Lee once
again join forces with D Squared
Productions' Doug White to
present another in a series of the
popular Twisted Sisters Comedy Hour
variety shows - TWISTED SISTERS
COMEDY HOUR: Lost Scenes From Stage &
Screen.
Wanzie
Presents
TWISTED SISTERS
COMEDY HOUR:
Lost Scenes from Stage & Screen
Created by
The Twisted Sisters
Directed & Choreographed
by
Doug White
Costumes by
Marcy Singhaus and D2 Productions
Starring
Miss
Sammy Carol Lee
Gidget Galore Doug White
Saturday, January
30, 2010 Curtain 8PM
$10
Tickets go on sale on Friday, January 8,
2010
'09 FRINGE
COMEDY HIT TO BE REMOUNTED IN 2010
In this parody of
the hilarious Christopher Guest film
Waiting for Guffman, six
enthusiastic actors present a show
within a show entitled Orlando,
Ourlando - a musical tribute to
Orlando on the occasion of the city's "quasquadcentennial
anniversary" while awaiting the arrival
of a "certain critic".
Waiting For Maupin
was a huge hit at the 2009 Orlando
International Fringe Festival; of that
production Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
Matthew J. Palm wrote -
"This gentle spoof
is just as funny - maybe funnier - than
the 1996 movie that inspired it...a
laughable look at pivotal moments in
Central Florida history - and the
["certain"] critic is the Sentinel's
own Elizabeth Maupin. "She's a wizard,"
sighs the show's fey director (Kevin
Bee, very funny). The cast gives the
show its heart, especially Kimberly
Shader as the dopey but besotted Mrs.
Bloomberg, and Josh Paul as an
ex-pole-dancer who never knew his
father. The Orlando, Ourlando
production numbers put funny twists on
the four 2004 hurricanes, the metallic
taste of canned orange juice, and a
Disney number set to the tune of the old
Carousel of Progress theme, "The Best
Time of Your Life."
Wanzie
Presents a Water On The Brain Production
WAITING FOR MAUPIN
Written by
Andy Haynes
Additional material by
Lori McCaskill
Musical Arrangements by
Darryl Pickett
Choreographed by
Heather Delmotte
Starring
Kevin Bee
Andrea Daveline Steve Hurst
John Kelly Josh Paul Sylvia
Bloomberg
Saturdays,
February 6 - 27, 2010 Curtain 8PM
$12 Tickets Go
On Sale Friday, January 15, 2010
