DATE: APRIL 7, 2015
FROM: AARON FETERL/MITCH SCHNEIDER, MSO PR
LUCHA VAVOOM
ADDS SECOND NIGHT TO ANNUAL CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATION
AFTER SELLING OUT TUESDAY, MAY 5TH SHOW
AT THE MAYAN THEATER IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
TICKETS ON SALE NOW FOR MONDAY, MAY 4 SHOW
AT LUCHAVAVOOM.COM
“There’s no show that’s funnier, sillier or more entertaining than this one.”
–Eric Idle (Monty Python)
“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 Luch VaVOOM’s mix of “sexo y violencia” will replace the Super Bowl, the Internet, and daytime television as humanity’s primary form of entertainment.”
– COMPLEX.com, February 20, 2015
“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.”
–THRILLIST.COM, February 18, 2015
LUCHA VaVOOM, one of Los Angeles’ most celebrated variety shows since 2002 where mind-blowing Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy collide, has added a second night to their annual Cinco de Mayo celebration–billed as PSYCHEDELIC CINCO–this year. With the May 5 event sold out, tickets for the Monday, May 4 show, a 21+ event, are available now at luchavavoom.com (and at the below retailers).
PSYCHEDELIC CINCO will be two great nights of Cinco de Mayo madness featuring the craziest, most over-the-top party Lucha VaVOOM has ever thrown, including:
Wrestling matches between Daredevil Liberace of Lucha Libre, CASSANDRO; PUMA KING; Bad bad DR. MALDAD; Real life piñata PIÑATITA; psychedelic CHICKEN; electric kool-aid CALAVERAS; The Wau Wau Sisters; PUMA KING; and mini wrestlers, the LI’L HOMIES
Burlesque performances from the incredible JESSEBELLE THUNDER, who’s making her Lucha VaVOOM debut; Alice in Luchaland MOANA SANTANA; aerial pole black light LEIGH ACOSTA; TANYA GAGNE death defying trapeze; and mesmerizing KARIS and the magic HULA HOOP
In addition to:
Lowrider car parade
Metal Mariachis
Folkloricos
South O’ The Border Striptease
Aztec Dancers
Comedy
Free Polite In Public Photo Booth
Cheap tamales and tequilaDJ Mr. Friend on the decks
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.
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
Garage Pizza, 100 1/2 W 7th Street, Downtown LA (213) 622-3390
For more information on Lucha VaVOOM, visit:
Website | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
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For more information and press credentials, contact MSO PR:
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