Event Listing - Theater, Gay

Sun Sep 28 - Thu Dec 18

Kamau Bell presents

Love Humiliation & Karaoke

(a very funny soloplay)

Tel. 415.928.4244
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Location	Date and Time
Stagewerx (@ Shelton) Theater 533 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94102 cross street: Powell district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre	Sun Sep 28 (7pm) Sun Oct 5 (7pm) Sun Oct 12 (7pm) Sun Oct 19 (7pm) Sun Oct 26 (7pm) Show All Dates Hide All Dates Thu Nov 6 (8pm) Thu Nov 13 (8pm) Thu Nov 20 (8pm) Thu Dec 4 (8pm) Thu Dec 11 (8pm) Thu Dec 18 (8pm)

Description

Wedding guests are left waiting while the groom’s best friend unveils her “brand new” genitals. In the jungles near Burma, a man attempts to overcome an intense phobia of elephants. A newcomer struggles to fit into an unwelcoming clique of psychics. A chicken hops a city bus accompanied by a Chinese Courtney Love. Two strangers drive 600 miles to rendezvous in a fast-food parking lot. A Filipino transvestite’s karaoke machine drives the neighbors crazy. And that’s not the weird part, which is that by the end of “Love, Humiliation & Karaoke”, all of this will make perfect sense.

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Press Release

Enzo's determined to have a psychic experience. He's in a class for people who want to have psychic experiences and everyone else is having them. Everyone but him. That’s why he’s driving 600 miles to meet a man he found on AOL personals. OK, the man has three of Enzo’s five non-negotiables: meaning things that would prevent a romance from happening but Enzo has a feeling about this man. A good feeling. A psychic feeling. Last week a woman came to class and told everyone that she had a premonition that her AC transit bus driver was going to be grumpy and she was right! Well, he’s got something bigger then that. Or he will if things work out. If the man doesn’t turn out to be a psychotic mass-murderer. This could be a big mistake. But class is tomorrow and he wants to be able to hold his head high and say, “I’ve had a psychic experience.” Enzo enrolled in the class because he’s committed to taking more risks this year. For instance he’s been phobic about elephants all his life so he decided to change that. He could have gone to the zoo and watched the elephants while standing safely behind heavy metal bars. Instead, he booked a flight to Burma and learned how to ride an elephant. A success. Enzo also went home to visit his estranged family after not seeing them for 17 years. Seventeen years is a very long time. OK, that blew up in his face but at least now he knows what the score is. He also confronted his neighbor, the Karaoke champion and asked him not to practice at 2:00 in the morning. That went better. Now he has the chance to meet a man who could be Mr. Right. They’re meeting in a parking lot at a McDonald’s: not romantic but it makes the get together very public and that’s good. To find out what transpires at the rendezvous and how a young woman finds a way to bring a live chicken on a MUNI bus and why SuperShuttle is for atheists and even stuff that's far odder then I've already mentioned, join us at "Love, Humiliation and Karaoke", Enzo's superlative solo comedy that is destined to be a hit. A big hit.

Enzo Lombard has been involved in one form of show bizness or another since the age of five. He has sung in London cabarets, performed stand-up comedy in San Francisco nightclubs and fronted bands that included future members of Counting Crow and Third Eye Blind. He has also written a novel and directed documentary films. All of these influences are evident in "Love, Humiliation & Karaoke" which is directed by W. Kamau Bell, the SF Weekly's 2008 Comedian of the Year and the writer/performer of the acclaimed solo show, "The W. Kamau Bell Curve" which has been running for a year.