Lucha VaVOOM’s Valentine’s Spectacular!
Amor Prohibido
Two-Night Celebration At The Mayan Theater In Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 13 And Thursday, February 14
Featuring Mexican Wrestling, Burlesque, Comedy, And More
Starring Guest Musical Artist, The Outrageous CHRISTEENE!
Tickets On Sale Now
Click here to download show flyer and images of performers
Lucha VaVOOM’s crazy Valentine’s show is back and guaranteed to be a hot mess of romance, rasslin’, and forbidden love.
Los Angeles’ longest running, most celebrated action-packed variety show where electrifying Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy collide in one delicious package, returns Wednesday, February 13 and Thursday, February 14 to The Mayan Theater (1038 S Hill St.) in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now at LuchaVaVOOM.com.
Lucha VaVOOM’s hometown faithful should brace themselves as this year’s two-night Valentine’s engagement, titled “Amor Prohibido,” includes a huge helping of lucha libre-style wrestling straight from Mexico City, Tijuana, Guadalajara, and Juarez; high-octane performances from world-renowned talent; plus, plenty of tequila, minis, aerialists, hula hoops, low riders, comedy, live music, and more.
This year’s show will include a special musical appearance by multimedia artist CHRISTEENE, the human pissoir of raw unabashed sexuality; a gender-blending, booty-pounding, perversion of punk with a fully equipped arsenal of ferocious music intertwined with raw moments of strained intimacy and fiery stank. Reports from the artist/musician's live shows describe distressed choreography, macabre scenes involving butt plugs tied to bouquets of balloons being released from the singer’s arse, intimate and bizarre confessionals, wardrobes styled from the forgotten scraps of society, and heated communication on the state of the world. Boy George proclaims, "What a f..king awesome hip hop, Beyonce, Evil Dead, queercore, unapologetic, sick show…KILL FOR A TICKET!” Click here to watch her video for “African Mayonnaise.”
CHRISTEENE (credit: Michael Sharkey)
The line-up for Lucha VaVOOM’s 2019 Valentine’s show includes: professional lucha libre wrestling matches (between Taya Valkaryie (from Impact Wrestling and making her LVV debut), crowd favorite luchadora and current LVV champ Dama Fina, Rey Fenix, Pentagón Jr, Magno “The Man Mountain” Rudo, Mariacho Loco, Dirty Sanchez, Jaguar Rojo, Dr. Maldad, Crazy Chickens, and sleazy Joey Ryan (creator of the “Penis Plex” and recently featured by Sports Illustrated); and high-octane performances (including the LVV debut from divine Russian-born, L.A.-based alternative model and burlesque performer MOSH (hailed as "one of the world's leading alternative and fetish models" by Model Mayhem), the marvelous contortion-trained pole artist Brynn Route, Kristina Nekyia (who has performed with the likes of DJ Shadow, Margaret Cho, and Lady Gaga, and is known for her intense physicality, impressive flexibility, with a wide range of performances ranging from classic burlesque to provocative theatrical acts), and the return of Michelle L’amour (“The Most Naked Woman” of America’s Got Talent fame)). Plus, comedy host Jeff Davis and a special guest to be announced will deliver insanely off-the-cuff commentary.
Doors for this 21+ event open at 7:00pm and the show goes from 8:00pm to 10:30pm. Tickets are on sale now at $40.00 for general admission tickets (mezzanine and balcony seating and standing) and $55.00 for ringside seating. For tickets and more info, visit LuchaVaVOOM.com.
Click here to watch highlights from Lucha VaVOOM’s sold-out Halloween spectacular shows.
About Lucha VaVOOM:
For 15 years, Lucha VaVOOM has been delivering arguably the most electrifying shows on earth with a mind-blowing mix of Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy. Founded in Los Angeles in 2002 by Rita D’Albert and Liz Fairbairn, Lucha VaVOOM -- 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. Lucha VaVOOM 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 (7/9/06).”
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, daredevil roller-skate girls, and Guinness-World-Record-holding 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. Click here to view a sizzle reel of Lucha VaVOOM highlights.
Click here to watch the trailer for the award-winning documentary, titled Lucha VaVOOM: Inside America’s Most Outrageous Show, released October 16, 2018 by TV4 Entertainment.
Lucha VaVOOM has been featured on Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel, BRAVO’s Top Chef Masters, CNN, Carson Daily, CBS National News, BBC, ESPN, and VICE, among others.
Here's a sampling of what the press has to say:
“It’s what performance art often aspires to be, a mash of the unmixable.”
- KCRW, October 26, 2017
“After 15 years, Lucha VaVOOM is practically as historic to Los Angeles as the Moulin Rouge is to Paris.”
- LA WEEKLY, February 8, 2018
“Lucha VaVOOM…triumphs in Los Angeles”
- BBC MUNDO, October 31, 2017
“…may be the best bang-for-your-buck entertainment in town.”
- THRILLIST, April 28, 2017
“Now in its 15th year, Lucha VaVOOM continues to wow with its potent mixture of violence, sex appeal and hilarity.”
- LA WEEKLY, April 27, 2017
“…no one that puts on a better lucha libre show than the folks at Lucha VaVOOM. Far wackier and wilder than most professional wrestling…Lucha VaVOOM lets its freak flag fly…”
- NERDIST, October 25, 2015
“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 Lucha 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, February 20, 2015
Tickets are available online at TicketWeb.com or at these outlets:
Wacko (4633 Hollywood Blvd – (323) 663-0122)
BRAT (1938 14th St., Santa Monica – (310) 452-2480)
For more info, visit LuchaVaVOOM.com and connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube
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