My Trip Down the Pink Carpet
From: Wednesday, 26th January 2011
To: Saturday, 19 February 2011
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Synopsis
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. With $1,200 sewn into his underpants, Leslie - who describes himself as "the gayest man I know" - boarded a Greyhound bus bound for L.A. and never looked back. Filled with comically overwrought childhood agonies, dangerous temptations, and revealing celebrity encounters - from Boy George to George Clooney My Trip Down The Pink Carpet delivers a laugh-out-loud take on Hollywood, fame, addiction, gay culture, and learning to love oneself.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 3 February 2011
Leslie Jordan was news to me, but in My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, a one hour and 40 minute solo show, filling in at the Apollo, he comes into focus: he’s the little gay guy in Will & Grace who got cast because Joan Collins didn’t want to play him.
Anyway, he turns up at the Emmy Awards with co-presenter Cloris Leachman and flashes back to seeing that terrible film about leprechauns, featuring Sean Connery, in his hometown cinema in Tennessee, just three years old, in 1958: he also cherishes a bride doll as a Christmas present.
You get the drift. He’s immensely likeable, little Leslie, a sort of camp cross between Charlie Drake and Paul Daniels and funnier than either. He knows how to drop a line and turn a toe, and he knows himself.
It all goes very well, and I was having a good time - until he comes out for real and starts getting blubbery about having been loaded (with booze and drugs) for 33 years and then find...
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Owen - 4 February 2011:
Perhaps a smaller theatre may have been a more suitable venue, but even from N row in the stalls a few nights back Mr Jordan made me laugh far more than I was expecting to. When he sweeps out onto the stage he instantly connects with the audience in front of him and that connection lasts for the full 90 mins of his act. His journey is one we may have heard in parts before, but he makes it wonderfully entertaining and at times when the surface is truly scratched is also has the ability to be quietly touching. A very polished well produced show which simply entertained. ...
Cast
Creative
Leslie Jordan (Author)
Bruce Robert Harris (Producer)
Jack W Batman (Producer)
Dennis Grimaldi (Producer)
Lily Tomlin (Producer)
Jane Wagner (Producer)
Jean McFaddin (Producer)
Susan Falk (Producer)
Daniel Wallace (in association with Julian Stoneman) (Producer)
David Galligan (Director)
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