My Trip Down the Pink Carpet
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 19, 2010
Closed Jul 3, 2010
Opened Apr 19, 2010
Closed Jul 3, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner invite you to My Trip Down The Pink Carpet, written by and starring Leslie Jordan, a laugh-out-loud take on Hollywood, fame, addiction, gay culture, and learning to love oneself.
A theatrical romp -- from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood -- My Trip Down The Pink Carpet tells the unlikely tale of one of America's true comic icons. Raised in a conservative family in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Leslie Jordan boarded a Greyhound bus bound for L.A. with $1,200 sewn into his underpants and never looked back. His pocket-sized physique and inescapable talent for high camp paved the way to a big career in commercials and on television. Along the way he immersed himself in writing for the stage, and his one-man testimonials have become cult hits. But with success came dangerous temptations that threatened his career and life.
With hundreds of television shows, films and commercials to his credit, Leslie has become a familiar face on the entertainment scene. He is the 2006 Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his delicious portrayal of "Beverley Leslie" on "Will and Grace." Television audiences will also remember Leslie in recurring roles on "Ugly Betty," "Boston Legal," "Hidden Palms," and "Reba."
12 Week Limited Engagement directed by David Galligan.
Produced by Bruce Robert Harris, Jack W. Batman, Dennis Grimaldi, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Jean McFaddin-Susan Falk, Daniel Wallace, D. Michael Dvorchak-Jim McLaughlin.
This production is sponsored by Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams.
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RE:My Trip Down The Pink Carpet
This production was seen in June 2010 in the Midtown Theater Midtown NYC: If you have not yet had the opportunity to see Leslie Jordan performing his production of My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, then run, don?t walk, to buy tickets now. If you missed him in NYC, don?t worry he is still touring the country so you just might have the opportunity to catch him again. During the entire evening Leslie is so openly candid about his upbringing, substance abuse, coming out and even love life that you just have to fall in love with him. Interwoven with his own personal life?s story he also tells stories and funny antidotes about his career, crushes, fellow co-stars and even the accidental way he landed his big role, of Beverley Leslie, on Will & Grace. The low point of his career/ life was actually while he was in rehab, when he was told by his sponsor that he, the flamboyant fun loving homosexual, was a ?fag hating fag?. This sudden realization and subsequent remarkable recovery, from this point in his life, are to be applauded. His stories, which are not always happy, portray a real life that everybody can relate to in one way or the other. Although the night I went the crowd was predominately men do not let this stop you from going if you are a fan. His stories will have you laughing out loud all evening and nobody will leave the theater feeling that they were not welcome there. The only low point of the evening is that with Leslie?s soft voice the sometimes overpowering music, he selected to play during various segments of the night, drown out the actor?s monologue which is truly sad because you will want to hang on every word he says.
Reviewed by OV26492745
on Thursday, Jul 29th, 2010
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Leslie Jordan has one of those faces you swear have flashed flamboyantly across your TV screen any number of times. And, sure enough, for the last quarter century, he's been stealing scenes in sitcoms, culminating in a 2006 Emmy Award-winning turn as the diminutive millionaire socialite, Beverley Leslie, on Will & Grace. Now Jordan is treading the boards at the Midtown Theater in his autobiographical one-man show My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, a combination stand-up act and rehab confessional that is heavy on jokes but somewhat lacking in depth.
Using a stanchion and velvet rope as amusing multiuse props, Jordan dishes out hilarious memories of growing up gay in the South and as an emergin[...]