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Leslie Jordan

LESLIE JORDAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Leslie Jordan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Leslie Jordan's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Fruit Fly         Hysterical Blindness (And Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My LifeThus Far)         My Trip Down the Pink Carpet

Fruit Fly

Synopsis:
Do gay men become their mothers? That is the question asked in Leslie Jordan's hilarious and touching new romp, Fruit Fly. Mr. Jordan travels back in time using show-and-tell to take the audience on the ride of a lifetime. Childhood recollections combine with perilous teenage shenanigans. From the day a teenage Leslie sits down with his poor, clueless mother to inform her that he has decided to forego college to become a female impersonator, all the way to a Gay Alaskan Cruise on which a 53-year-old Mr. Jordan witnesses his aging mother's astounding metamorphosis (and whose only real concern about a gay cruise to Alaska is that she doesn't want to go ice fishing), Mr. Jordan is in his element. His storytelling skills abound and will make for an evening of fun and thought-provoking theater.

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1st Produced:
Celebration Theatre, 7051 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, Ca 90038    06 Jan 2012

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hysterical Blindness (And Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My LifeThus Far)

Synopsis:
Leslie wants to leave the South and conquer Hollywood

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Joe Patrick Ward; book by Leslie Jordan

1st Produced:
Playhouse On Vandam, New York    1994

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Genre:
Musical

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My Trip Down the Pink Carpet

Synopsis:
a theatrical romp-from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood-My Trip Down the Pink Carpet tells the unlikely tale of one of America's true gay icons. Raised in a conservative family in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Leslie Jordan-who describes himself as "the gayest man I know"-boarded a Greyhound bus bound for L.a. with $1,200 sewn into his underpants and never looked back. His pocket-sized physique and inescapable talent for high camp paved the way to a lucrative and varied career in commercials and on television. along the way he immersed himself in writing for the stage, and his one-man testimonials have become cult hits. But with success came dangerous temptations that threatened his career and life. Filled with comically overwrought childhood agonies, offbeat observations, and revealing celebrity encounters-from Boy George to George Clooney-My Trip Down the Pink Carpet delivers a laugh-out-loud take on Hollywood, fame, addiction, gay culture, and learning to love oneself.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Midtown Theatre, 163 West 46th Street, New York, Ny, 10036    19 Apr 2010

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Genre:
100 min Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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