Lucha VaVOOM Announces Summer Extravaganza!

HOT IN THE CITY 

One-Night Celebration at The Mayan Theater in Los Angeles
Thursday, August 8th
Featuring Mexican Wrestling, Burlesque, Comedy, and more 

Tickets On Sale Now

Click here to download show flyer artwork (above) and images of performers

“Exploding with gusto, guts and spectacle, Lucha VaVoom raises pulses with a uniquely exuberant combination of burlesque, comedy and lucha libre masked wrestling. Now in its 17th year, this troupe vivaciously teases the audience from the wrestling ring, anchoring a dynamic extravaganza with sass and sex appeal.” - LVV, recently named one of Los Angeles’ best burlesque shows by LA Weekly

Lucha VaVOOM ─ Los Angeles’ longest running, most celebrated action-packed variety show where electrifying Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy collide in one delicious package ─ returns hot on the heels of their legendary sold-out “Cinco de Mayan” engagement, with their annual summer spectacular show!

This year’s summer show, titled “Hot in the City,” will take place on Thursday, August 8th at Lucha VaVOOM’s home venue, The Mayan Theater (1038 S Hill St.), in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for this 21+ event are on sale now at LuchaVaVOOM.com.

The line-up for this year’s summer show features world-class professional lucha libre wrestling matches between current LVV champ, luchadora Dama Fina, who will be defending her title in LVV’s annual “Battle of the Belt” match against some of the hottest luchadors on the planet. The wrestling card for this show includes: El Bombero (former WWE Cruiserweight Champion), Magno “The Man Mountain” Rudo, the Crazy Chickens, Mariachi Loco, Li’l Cholo, Jaguar Rojo, Dirty Sanchez, Minis, and the candy filled superstar Piñatita. Plus, an all-star match not to be missed between super estrella luchadores Flamita (returning to settle some old scores) and Extreme Tiger (former AAA and TNA Champion) vs Bárbaro Cavernario and Dr. Maldad, LVV will also be introducing an all new luchadors match where fans decide the winner.

In between matches fans will experience sizzling sirens of strip-tacular proportion, from the likes of the award-winning international burlesque performer Michelle L’amour (“The Most Naked Woman” of America’s Got Talent fame), superstar Donna Hood (whose credits include MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, Strip Strip Hooray!" alongside the undisputed Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese, and founder of LA's own bi-weekly burlesqueshow TEASE, if you please!), the LA Roller Girls, the incomparable and stunning Trixie Little (former Queen of Burlesque and Miss Exotic World), and internationally published retro, fetish, pinup, glamour and art nude model, Miss Miranda (cast member at LA's renowned TEASE, If You Please!, face of Secrets in Lace lingerie). Also, stunning aerialists Kate Minwegan and Veronica Yune will be performing together for an amazing, high-octane number.

Delivering insanely off-the-cuff commentary throughout the night will be stand-up comedy duo The Sklar Brothers, hosting alongside Blaine Capatch. Los Angeles-based duo of Randy and Jason Sklar have released six critically acclaimed comedy albums, have had two Comedy Central Half Hour Presents specials, and recently released a one hour stand-up special on Netflix, titled “What Are We Talking About” and another one hour special on the Starz Network, titled “Hipster Ghosts.” 

Doors for this 21+ event open at 7:00 pm and the show goes from 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm. Tickets are on sale now for $40.00 for general admission tickets (includes mezzanine and balcony seating and standing unreserved) and $55.00 for ringside tickets (includes floor and stage seating and standing, seats not guaranteed). For tickets and more info, visit LuchaVaVOOM.com.

Click here to watch highlights from Lucha VaVOOM’s most recent sold-out three-night engagement, celebrating the 10th anniversary of their “Cinco de Mayan” shows. The shows featured a roster that included special musical guests Le Butcherettes and Otto Von Schirach, plus wrestling and performances from the likes of Diamante Azul, Templario, Marawa, Joey Ryan, TJP, Mosh, and so many more.

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  

“…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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