Lucha VaVOOM announcesa two-night Halloween glam/slam extravaganza, dubbed 'Bienvenido a la Twilight Zone'
Featuring world-class Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque, comedy, music, and more
Thursday, October 27th and Friday, October 28th at The Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles
Tickets on sale now
Click here to download show artwork (seen above) and performer images
Los Angeles, CA (September 21, 2022)─Lucha VaVOOM is celebrating 20 years of wowing audiences across the globe with a two-night Halloween glam/slam extravaganza, dubbed Bienvenido a la Twilight Zone (Welcome to the Twilight Zone), on Thursday, October 27th and Friday, October 28th at their historic home venue The Mayan Theatre (1038 S Hill St.) in downtown Los Angeles. Tickets for this 21+ event are on sale now for $45.00‒$90.00 at TicketWeb.com.
Last month marked the 20th anniversary for Lucha VaVOOM (LVV), Los Angeles’ longest-running, most celebrated variety show, where authentic Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque, and comedy collide. In February, LVV hosted their first live event since 2019 due to the coronavirus, selling out their Valentine’s engagement, followed by two blowout nights in May (celebrating 11 years of Cinco de Mayo craziness) and their Summer Sabotage show in July. From Los Angeles to Tokyo, across the U.S. and Canada, and all the way to Australia, people go crazy for this perfect combination of world-class, professional lucha libre-style wrestling interspersed with insane, high-octane burlesque performances, death-defying aerial acts, comedy, music, lowriders, tequila, tamales, and more ─ all adding up to one unforgettable night.
In The Advocate‘s anniversary retrospective (titled “How Lucha VaVoom Became a Queer Wrestling & Performance Extravaganza” and featured in the new Sept/Oct issue), Desirée Guerrero’s writes: “...the high-octane extravaganza has been an iconic entertainment institution for two decades now. And for a show seemingly centered on chi-chis and machismo, its history is surprisingly queer. Lucha VaVoom has evolved much over the years…the show has featured everything from famous comedian MCs like Margaret Cho and Jeffrey Ross to erotic aerialists like Violet Chachki of Drag Race fame along with other sexy gender-fluid performers. And of course, lots of buff, crazily costumed luchadors (of all genders) putting on a great show — some of whom have also been proudly out members of the LGBTQ+ community.”
LVV’s wrestling lineup at the upcoming October shows will feature a faceoff between Magno “The Man Mountain” Rudo and Taya Valkyrie (four-time Reina de Reinas champion and former WWE superstar) vs luchadora Dulce Tormenta and Rey Misterio (El Heredero) in the main match. Other wrestlers confirmed include: Wasteland War Party (duo featuring “The Non-binary Nightmare” Max The Impaler (aka They Are Max) and Fest Wrestling Tag Team Champ Heidi Howitzer), “Pretty” Peter Avalon, Techno Destructo (the archnemesis of heavy metal band GWAR and played by GWAR co-founder Hunter Jackson), El Bombero II, the utterly fearless Jack Cartwheel, Paquita (the drag wrestling version of the GRAMMY®-nominated Mexican singer Paquita la del Barrio), Aéreo, Chupacabra, and fan favorites Los Crazy Chickens and Dirty Sanchez (the scatological master of lucha libre, wowing LVV crowds since 2008 with his underhand, dirty tricks and his signature move “A Taste Of The Awful!”).
Burlesque dancers and aerialists confirmed include the incomparable Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière (internationally renowned neo-burlesque dancer hailing from Kahnawake, Quebec, whose accolades include being voted #1 burlesque performer in Canada, crowned 2018's New Orleans Queen of Burlesque, voted as one of the top 50 most influential figures in burlesque, and holds titles from the Burlesque Hall of Fame), fire and sword swallowing showgirl Emma Vauxdevil, Jessabelle Thunder (burlesque performer, pinup model, and first runner up at Miss Exotic World 2018), mistress of hoops Tosca (performance artist specializing in roue Cyr, an acrobatic discipline featuring a life-sized steel hoop, who was crowned Miss Viva Las Vegas 2015), and transcendent dancer, aerialist, and boylesque artist Làszlò Major (from New York’s Company XIV's summer striptease show "Boylesque Bullfight” and Dita Von Teese’s Glamonatrix Tour).
Delivering insanely off-the-cuff commentary both nights will be comedian host Blaine Capatch. Plus, returning as ring announcer is Ignacio Serricchio (Argentine actor known for his roles on General Hospital and The Young and the Restless), as well as celebrated referees Scarlette Donovan and Sergio “Platanito” Garcia.
For more info, visit LuchaVaVOOM.com and follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
About Lucha VaVOOM:
For almost 20 years, Lucha VaVOOM (LVV) has been delivering arguably the most electrifying show 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, LVV -- voted Los Angeles’ “Best Burlesque Show” by LA Weekly in 2012 and 2013 -- is good vs. evil played out in quick, exhibition-style, one-fall lucha libre matches for maximum enjoyment and action. LVV has created a Los Angeles tradition: from the low rider car parade escorting in performers as the crowd enters the iconic Mayan Theatre, to the local luminaries it attracts (Drew Carey, Jack Black, and more have sat in), to burlesque (which was revived in Los Angeles), to lucha libre, where masked heroic wrestlers, in character-driven style, flip, fly, and amaze. It all comes together to make for 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). Says the Los Angeles Times, “Far-out flamboyance always prevails at Lucha VaVOOM, a spectacle of Mexican freestyle wrestling with an L.A. twist.”
At LVV, 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 (including in Amsterdam, Calgary, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, and many more), plus they’ve performed at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan and Big Day Out Festival in Australia, and call Los Angeles’ Mayan Theatre -- an elaborately appointed, 1927-built former motion-picture palace -- home when not on the road.
LVV has been featured on Ellen, ESPN, Jimmy Kimmel, BRAVO’s Top Chef Masters, CNN, CBS National News, BBC, VICE, and KCRW, among many others. In 2018, TV4 Entertainment released their award-winning documentary, Lucha VaVOOM: Inside America’s Most Outrageous Show ─ click here to watch the trailer.
Click here to watch LVV’s anniversary video celebrating 18 years of glorious mayhem, featuring a cast of thousands, including Peaches, Blue Demon Jr., Patton Oswalt, Rey Fenix, Drew Carey, Taya Valkyrie, the Crazy Chickens, Starcrawler, Penta Zero, and much more. Click here to view a sizzle reel with more LVV highlights.
Sample of praise:
“It’s what performance art often aspires to be, a mash of the unmixable.”
- KCRW
“After 15 years, Lucha VaVOOM is practically as historic to Los Angeles as the Moulin Rouge is to Paris.”
- LA Weekly
“Lucha VaVOOM…triumphs in Los Angeles”
- BBC Mundo
“If Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez teamed up to start a wrestling promotion –
Lucha VaVOOM is what you would get.”
- The Sportster
“…may be the best bang-for-your-buck entertainment in town.”
- Thrillist
“…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
“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
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