VEVE LaROUX(Veronica Russell) - bingomistress, arbiter of discipline & haberdashery, keeper of the ding(ding!).
THE NEW ORLEANS BINGO! SHOW(OFFICIAL TRAILER)
Clint performs National Anthem at BCS Championship with Preservation Hall Jazz Band!
Preservation Hall Hot 4 featuring Clint Maedgen & The New Orleans Bingo! Show
Influences
Tom Waits, Bob Fosse, REO Speedwagon, Charo, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Journey, New Orleans, The Natchez Calliope, Han Solo, The Inevitable Jack Lee, delivering food to strippers, Al Jarreau, Umbrella Man, The General, Joel Grey, bicycle rides, Steve Martin, Patch...
Beginning in humble circumstances playing to the rear end of a fried chicken shack,
traveling the far reaches of the world from the U.S. to the Continent to the corners of
the Far East and landing right back where they started in the storied and seedy
streets of the French Quarter, The New Orleans Bingo! Show remains a curious
spectacle, a thrilling phenomenon and one of the very finest entertainments on the
theatrical stage today.
Dressed in black, white and red like the leering faces on a good poker hand, the
Bingo! Show is a multimedia stage experience that includes original black-and-white
silent films, aerialists, dancers, ingénues, clowns, audience interaction, bingo games,
slapstick comedy and shady characters who remind you that every stage door opens
into a dark alley.
Ringleader – or ringmaster – Clint Maedgen, a Louisiana native and sixteen-year
New Orleans resident, writes love songs to the bohemian beauty of downtown New
Orleans with heartbreaking purity and unimpeachable chops; his songs swell with
tenderness and crackle with sinister menace in equal parts. Rounded out with
occasional upright bass, organ, musical saw, theremin, siren, pantomime, flashlight,
found percussion and suspicious behavior, the band is a Brechtian cabaret funneled
through New Orleans' Ninth Ward via the noir surrealism of Twin Peaks.
In recent years, The New Orleans Bingo! Show has forged a deep involvement with
the New Orleans traditional jazz institution the Preservation Hall Jazz Band– touring
with them, joining the show and working with the band to update, twist and preserve
the unique quality that is New Orleans-style showmanship.
But as in the finest dime museums, sideshows and collections of oddities since the
dawn of vaudeville, seeing is believing. So step up to the ticket booth, surrender a
nominal sum and allow yourself to be astonished, amazed and amused by America's
best-loved musical gameshow cabaret –
The New Orleans Bingo! Show.
FOR BOOKING INQUIRIES: booking@neworleansbingoshow.com
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NEW CD ALSO AVAILABLE ON ITUNES(CLICK BELOW)
The New Orleans Bingo! Show's Friend Space (Top 40)
We're touring in Los Angeles this week! There are three shows: Mon 6/30 @ Three Clubs Tue 7/1 @ Bordello Wed 7/2 @ Aura For more info on show times and pricing visit www. fleurdetease. com
Wanna see more? Friday, June 27th: A Night of Recycled Creativity @ The Republic
Featured shows: Worn Again Jr. Runway Show - 6pm Worn Again NOLA 2 Runway Show - 8pm Thrift Store Art Edit - all night Recycled Dance Competition - 9pm
All proceeds will be donated to Recycle 4 the Arts.
