Eight years has passed since actor and Broadway veteran John Leguizamo was on the big stage. Since his 2003 Broadway show Sexaholix, Leguizamo returns with another one-man show entitled Ghetto Klown which follows the same motor-mouth storytelling seen in his prior shows Spic-O-Rama (1993), Freak (1998), and Sexaholix…a love story. In Ghetto Klown, Leguizamo promises to take the audience through his past starting with his adolescent years in Queens up into the beginning of his theatre career during the 80s. The show will also detail some of Leguizamo’s experience and interactions with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars he’s encountered while on the set of films he starred in some like William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Carlito’s Way (1993), and including others.
In a news release for Ghetto Klown, Leguizamo explains the play was conceived to address how he overcame a traumatic experience that nearly made him want to stop doing one-man shows altogether. While not giving any details on the experience that almost ended his desire to do one-man plays, possibly something saved for the show itself, Leguizamo finds that traumatic experiences in general are “all relative…we artists, we’re too sensitive sometimes and we’ve got to get over ourselves. That’s the lesson: you’ve got to get over yourself.” Ghetto Klown will be previewed on February 22, 2011 and will begin its twelve week run starting March 22, 2011.
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