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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...
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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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Dear Clint, "Complicated Life" inspired me to move back to New Orleans. I am back playing music in the quarters again and enjoying being HOME again! LOVE your rendition of the National Anthem with the Hot 4 Preservation Hall Band. You guys got a hella ovation! Hope to meet you soon! Love your music...you have so much heart!! :) Best to You, Cynthia :)
Fiery burlesque dancers, jaw-dropping acrobatics, stunning aerialists, punk clowns, gothic stilt-walkers, and psychedelic tomfoolery. Come early to dine picnic-style around the tent, and stay late for a nightly party in the Berzerk Lounge with the troupe and a live performance by Vaud & the Villains. Attendees from last year described it as a “circus on acid,” “French burlesque meets ‘Sweeney Todd’ meets Cirque du Soliel” and “P.T. Barnum’s worst nightmare.”
Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 N. Spring St., L.A. Recurs Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, June 18 - July 5, 2009 with one performance each Thursday at 8:30pm, two shows Fridays and Saturdays at 7:00 and 10:00pm and two shows every Sunday at 5:00pm and 8:00pm. Tix $25-80.
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