BURBANK HAS DISNEY STUDIOS, IKEA,
AND
NOW...
PEPE HERNANDEZ!
THE
COLONY THEATRE
PRESENTS
A
SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY
&
FLYING CUCUMBER PRODUCTION
THE
SMASH-HIT, CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED, LA
TIMES CRITIC'S CHOICE PRODUCTION OF
EL GRANDE CIRCUS DE
COCA-COLA
Written by Ron House
Directed by Alan Shearman
Based on El
Grande de Coca-Cola by Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman
and
John Neville-Andrews
Limited
Engagement opens Saturday, November 7 at
The Colony Theatre in Burbank!
October 13, 2015....Burbank...The
Colony Theatre is pleased to announce that it is bringing to its
mid-size
Equity theatre the wildly successful, LA Times Critic's Choice
production of
EL GRANDE CIRCUS
DE COCA-COLA by Ron House, based on
El
Grande de Coca-Cola by Ron House, Diz
White, Alan Shearman, and John Neville-Andrews, directed by Alan
Shearman. Originally
produced by Skylight Theatre
Company & Flying Cucumber Productions for fourteen sold-out
weeks at the
99-seat Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles, the "hilarious, uproarious and
brilliantly executed" (Stage Raw Recommended)
EL GRANDE
CIRCUS DE COCA-COLA will preview on Thursday, November 5
and Friday, November
6 at 8:00pm. It will open on Saturday, November 7 at 8:00pm and
continue
through Sunday, December 13. The previously announced
production of HUMBLE
BOY will be presented in the Colony's 2016-2017 season.
Comments Artistic Director
Barbara Beckley, "Since we spent 25 years as part of the 99-seat
community, we
are thrilled that we have the opportunity to bring this family-oriented
and
multi-cultural show to our mid-size theatre where it can reach a wider
audience
and delight many more people. BroadwayWorld called it "Simply Stunning!" and ArtsInLA raved that the actors are
"World-class
clowns able to make the rest of the world around us disappear." Is it any wonder it was a
smash hit at the
Skylight?
El Grande will soon be headed to London,
but first we are so excited
to be bringing it to our subscribers and audiences who are going to
love it!"
Meet Pepe Hernandez, over-ambitious patriarch of the world’s most
dubious family of entertainers, whose unflagging confidence cobbled
from decades spent touring the bottom-rung nightclub circuit
south-of-the-border, has inspired him to ascend into big-top territory
and head north to…Burbank, legendary home of Walt Disney, IKEA, and now
Pepe Hernandez! Nothing – not even the labyrinthine layout of IKEA -
will hinder this fearless, feckless familia in their determined quest
for international stardom. Welcome to El Grande CIRCUS de Coca-Cola!
ABOUT
THE CREATIVE TEAM
RON
HOUSE (Playwright)
created the role of
Pepe Hernandez in
El Grande de Coca-Cola.
He left home at 15 and traveled the world, becoming fluent in five
languages.
Starting his theatrical career as a member of the Second City Company
and later
moved to New York with
El Grande de
Coca-Cola. Ron founded Low Moan Spectacular, the London
underground theatre
company that spawned the hit
Bullshot
Crummond, which ran in London, New York, Los Angeles and San
Francisco, and
was eventually produced as a film by Beatle George Harrison. Ron's
latest work,
Decorum Maintained, was inspired by
personal experiences while working as an under butler in the London
townhouse
of Klaus and Sonny Von Bulow.
ALAN
SHEARMAN (Director,
Musical Director) has
been directing comedies, musicals, musical comedies and
comedies-with-music for
over 20 years and along the way has collected six Best Director awards.
Alan came to the
U.S. over 35 years ago with
Low Moan Spectacular, the British comedy group founded by Ron House,
with whom
Alan created the original
El Grande de
Coca-Cola, Bullshot Crummond, Footlight
Frenzy, and
The Scandalous
Adventures
of Sir Toby Trollope. All four shows continue to be performed
across the
country and around the world.
Bullshot
Crummond became the movie
Bullshot,
in
which Alan played the title role. He lives locally in LA with his
beautiful,
talented wife Anna Mathias and son Alastair. Alan works both on and
off-screen
as an actor, writer and director with voiceover credits on several
hundred
movies, TV shows and video games. He
is a member of the
Dramatists Guild of America. http://www.lowmoan.com/ashearman/director.html
TOR
CAMPBELL (Choreographer)
started dancing his freshmen year in high school.
Tor continued to dance while at Marymount Manhattan College.
More
recently Tor returned from Macau, China where he was a choreographer
for the
Venetian & Sands Hotel. Tor now resides in LA where
he works
full-time as a choreographer and dance instructor.
GARY
GROSSMAN (Producer) is
the Producing Artistic
Director for the Skylight Theatre Company. He started his career in New
York
owning two theater companies and a theatrical lighting company by the
age of
23. Gary worked at the Public Theatre, Café La Mama, and Sheraton
Square Playhouse
before traveling west in the 70's to join up with the emerging theatre
movement
in Los Angeles. He has produced over 300 stage plays, including more
than 50
world premieres. Among his celebrated productions are Dontrell,
Who Kissed The Sea (Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation), Disconnection, Years to the Day,
Bullrusher, Wrong Man (3 Ovation Awards),
Pray To Ball (1 Ovation Award),
Hermetically Sealed, Sexsting, Mad Women (LA Weekly Award
for Best Solo
Performance), Romeo and Juliet directed
by Milton Katselas (3 LADCC Awards), Dylan (3 LADCC Awards), Influence,
Open House, Dream Man, Lone Star, Balm in Gilead, Visions and Lovers,
Rabbit
Hole, Beautified and La Ronde De
Lunch.
THE
SKYLIGHT THEATRE
COMPANY discovers,
develops and produces
new, exhilarating works while nurturing and educating the writers who
create
them. A vibrant and expanding family of artists giving voice to
original
perspectives of today's world, Skylight won 4
Ovation Awards in 2014 for
The Wrong Man
and
Pray To
Ball (the most of any intimate theatre in LA) while last year
LA Weekly named their
productions of
Years
To The Day,
Open House, and
Sexsting
to their Top Ten Plays list of 2013.
Skylight's
first year as a company dedicated to developing new plays was 2011,
when their
production of
Hermetically Sealed made the LA Times
annual list of Top Ten Plays,
and
Mad Woman
moved from Los Angeles to LaMaMa in New York. Since then plays
developed by Skylight have played
Chicago, New York, Edinburgh, Paris and local venues.
skylighttheatrecompany.com. Twitter: @SkylightThtr Facebook: Skylight
Theatre
Company Instagram: SkylightTheatre
FLYING
CUCUMBER PRODUCTIONS
was
created by Lila Dupree and Alan
Shearman with the goal of developing and producing new
theatrical works
with broad international appeal.
After working together on the recent
hit revival of
El Grande de Coca-Cola, Lila and
Alan immediately saw
El
Grande CIRCUS de Coca-Cola, the sequel to the legendary
international hit,
as the natural next step.
They
are currently pursuing taking the show to
London's West End. Lila has produced
theatre and film in New York, Los Angeles and South Africa, often with
her
company, The Common Tongue. Producing
credits include a reimagined version of
All
Over (collab Edward Albee, Marian Seldes, Kathleen Buter),
Off-Broadway World Premieres of Obie-Award winning playwright Lucy
Thurber and
award-winning playwright Wendy MacLeod and a staged reading of 2008
Yale Drama
Award winner
Grenadine. Recent on-screen work
includes
Walk The Light, a short film she wrote and
produced, starring
Michael Richards (
Seinfeld), that played at over 40
festivals around the
world. Alan has decades of
experience producing theatre and film from London to LA. Origins of the phrase "Flying
Cucumber" available on
request.
ABOUT
THE
CAST AND DESIGN TEAM
MARCELO
TUBERT (Pepe) is
delighted to join this latest incarnation
of Coca-Cola. He is one of the founding members of The
Antaeus Theater
Co., performing in
Henry IV, Part l, The
Wood Demon, The Man Who Had All the Luck, You Can't Take it With You,
Trial by
Jury, Patience, Of Mice and Men and many more. Other theaters
where he has
performed are The Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Milwaukee Rep, The Old
Globe, New
Mexico Rep, and The Colony. He received an Ovation award for
San Fran Scapin, adapted from Molière's
Scapin. His TV, film and voice over work
covers over 30 years and are too numerous to list, so you can go to
MarceloTubert.com or IMDB to check it out. Argentinian born, Marcelo
and his
multi-talented wife, Lori (she's actually a force of nature!), are the
proud
parents of Emily, a pro golfer and Sarah, an aspiring actress and
make-up
artist. His philosophy: Live simply and remain grateful.
PAUL
BAIRD (Miguel)
is an actor, writer, and musician.
Though born in Santa Cruz, he spent much of his life performing while
living
abroad. His favorite productions include
Cabaret
(Emcee),
Becoming Julia Morgan
(BACC
Best ensemble)
Odysseus (Greek
Tour),
his award-winning co-written play
Ni Una
Más (Voice 6), and his two autobiographical solo shows
My Brother's Keeper and
The
White Knuckle Driver. Award-Winning films include
EBX 3000, Jesus Blues, and
Undocumented. ThePaulBaird.com.
OLIVIA
CRISTINA DELGADO
(Maria) has had
the privilege of performing new plays with marvelous people, including:
the
Latino Theater Company, several productions, most recently
La Olla at the Getty Villa; the LTA
Playwright's Nest, as part of
the development and performance of the dark-comedy thriller
Karina Plays Pachanga Music; and
now...EL GRANDE! Olivia is classically trained and last summer toured
in
Hamlet and
A
Midsummer Night's Dream with Shakespeare By The Sea,
performing
for over 20K people.
LILA
DUPREE (Consuelo) is
delighted to be reprising the role of Consuelo Hernandez
after first taking her on at The Ruskin Group Theatre in the critically
acclaimed hit
El Grande de Coca-Cola (LA Weekly
Theatre Awards Best
Comedy Ensemble Nomination). Other stage work includes
All
Over
(Off//Off-Off Bway), World Premieres
Young and
Named
(Off//Off-Off Bway),
Our Town
(Sierra Madre Playhouse)
and numerous
roles during six seasons at Acadia Repertory Theatre. On-screen credits
include
Extant (CBS),
LA Apocalypse
(Syfy) and
The Golden Boys
(with David Carradine, Bruce Dern). Training: LAMDA, Atlantic Theatre
Company
Conservatory. B.A. Columbia University. Many thanks to Gary, Alan and
Mum. And
here's lookin' at you, Dad.
AARON
MILLER (Juan) If the
name Aaron Miller sounds familiar, it's because it's a
fairly common name. Or, perhaps you were canoodling through the bargain
bin at
the 99 Cent Store and found one of Aaron's movies? Highly unlikely.
Aaron has
starred in various original plays and things around L.A for quite some
time
now. He's ALMOST been cast in several neat movies and television shows.
He is
dying for a part on "The Real Housewives of Any City" or even "Keeping
Up with
the Kardashians" because, well, that's where the world is now. You can
also
currently see Aaron at the grocery store or in his filthy studio
apartment.
JESSE
D.
MYERS (Juan
Understudy) is a Los Angeles based actor and
graduate of the LACC Theatre Academy. He has appeared most recently in
TMB's
Big Shot at the Edinburgh
Fringe; the
Bootleg Theater and South Coast Rep. Currently, he can be seen at LACC
in a
production of
Elephants Graveyard.
His recent film credits include
True
Piracy (The Necromance Projects);
Where
We Fell (Short Eye Productions);
The
Hostage (RX Films) and the soon-to-be-released original
series
Pharmhouse (The Necromance
Projects).
Scenic
Design is by
John Iacovelli, Costume Design by Sarah Figoten, Lighting Design by
Jennifer
Edwards, and Sound Design by Jeff Gardner
ABOUT
THE SCHEDULE AND PRICING
EL GRANDE CIRCUS
DE COCA-COLA will open on Saturday, November
7, at 8:00pm and continue through Sunday, December 13. Performances for EL
GRANDE CIRCUS DE COCA-COLA are Thursdays &
Fridays at 8:00pm;
Saturdays at 3:00pm & 8:00pm; and Sundays at 2:00pm. Ticket prices range from
$25.00 - $49.00
(group discounts are available). EL GRANDE CIRCUS DE COCA-COLA will
preview on Thursday,
November 5, and Friday, November 6, at 8:00pm at The Colony Theatre,
555 North
Third Street (at Cypress) adjacent to the Burbank Town Center Mall. Opening night performance with reception – all
tickets $59.00. There are
question-and-answer talkbacks after the performances on Friday,
November 13,
and Thursday, December 3rd. For tickets, call the Colony Theatre Box
Office at 818/558-7000 ext. 15 or online at www.ColonyTheatre.org.
For more information, press
interviews, photos,
or for press comps, please contact David Elzer/DEMAND PR at
818/508-1754 or at DavidElzer@me.com
or visit www.demandpr.com.
The
Colony Theatre has long been a vibrant center of L.A.'s theatre
life. Its subscribers renew at an astounding rate of 90%, and
in 2012 the theatre received nine Ovation Award nominations,
including the coveted one for Best Season. From its
beginnings
in 1975 as a 99-seat Equity-waiver theatre in Silver Lake, the
company became so successful artistically, and built such a large
subscriber base, that in 2000 it was able to move into a 270-seat
state-of-the-art theatre created for it by the City of Burbank. As
such, it became one of only a handful of mid-sized professional
theatres in the L.A. area that produce a year-round season of plays
and musicals, and that employ actors under contract with Actors'
Equity Association. The
theatre is located at 555 North Third Street, at the corner of
Cypress, in the heart of Downtown Burbank. For further information,
call (818) 558-7000. Fax number: (818) 558-7110. E-mail:
boxoffice@colonytheatre.org.
Or visit our website at www.colonytheatre.org.