October 15: The Bow Wow Club Rolls Out The Red Carpet To Host Industry Gala Night
News Blaze, October15, 2006
Moving towards its final act, The Bow Wow Club which has been playing since September to standing ovations every night, has added an additional, unscheduled "Industry Nite" showing to top off its published schedule of Friday and Saturday evening shows at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday 2:00 p.m. matinee. On Sunday, October 15, a special 7:00 p.m. showing will be followed by an industry professionals' red carpet gala and dinner buffet, free to registered attendees.
Produced by Mastering The Audition Entertainment, the star-studded event will be hosted at the beautiful Lounge Montmartre adjacent to the Stella Adler Theater with a lengthy guest list of celebrities, casting directors, producers, agents and managers. Registration for the event is available online to industry professionals and national media at www.bowwow411.com.
The Bow Wow Club opening night played to a standing room only crowd and received a rousing standing ovation over five minutes long - while the celebration which followed the show transformed into a major Hollywood event filled with celebrities, studio execs, a "'rockin'" red carpet gala, a dazzling buffet, fabulous people and paparazzi. Among the famed faces for the unforgettable evening were Eric Dickerson, Bokeem Woodbine, Kimberly Elise, Michael Jai White, Ella Joyce, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Glenn Plummer, Glenn Turman and Harry J. Lennix.
Presented by Mastering The Audition (www.MasteringtheAudition.com), in association with the Stella Adler Theater, the Levy Lee Simon award-winning play The Bow Wow Club, is a serious comedy about five teenage friends who reunite after 20 years to reconnect emotionally, but through discoveries and revelations, are forced to choose between their stunning and fundamental differences or the undeniable power of their lifelong bond. The Bow Wow Club stars John Marshall Jones as Kirk Bright, the optimistic ringleader of the once defiant teenage brotherhood, who sacrifices a promising military career by rejecting the limitations of institutional racism. Suddenly civilian, Bright now focuses on the Bow Wow Club's 20-year reunion to help him fight off the looming depression that haunts his every step. Lee Simon's riveting tale of what happened to The Bow Wow Club once they left the security of the streets shows their hopes, their dreams, their disappointments, their successes and the surprising changes that took place in their lives as they found acceptance and compromise in adulthood to be as big an adversary as any rival gang they had faced in their prime.
Along with producing The Bow Wow Club, Jones currently appears in "50 Pills" (which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival) and the SciFi Channel's sleeper hit "John Doe" (also starring Dominic Purcell of FOX's Prison Break), and he is best known as the loving father, Floyd Henderson on the international hit TV series "Smart Guy." Credits since coming to Hollywood from Chicago's "Second City Theatre" in 1987 include "Good Morning, Vietnam," "White Men Can't Jump," "Con Air," "The Doctor" and "Sgt. Bilko," as well as television roles in "Malcolm in the Middle," "Nip/Tuck," "Still Standing," "Joan of Arcadia," "Soul Food," "ER," "Home Improvement," "Roseanne," and "Any Day Now," just to name a few.
Director of The Bow Wow Club, Dan Martin is an actor, director and photographer who has been one of the busiest and most familiar faces in TV and film. Currently appearing as Lt. Baker on CBS's "The Bold & the Beautiful," Martin's film and television credits include "Beverly Hills Cop #3," "Heat," "Steven King's Sleepwalkers," "Rush Hour," "Enough," "Lep in the Hood," and the upcoming feature "The Gridiron Gang," as well as "Laurel Avenue," "NYPD Blue" and "Malcolm in the Middle." With successful plays such as "For Colored Girls ... ," "The River Niger," Ron Milner's "A Theme for Linda," and the dark fantasy "A Bag of Magic," Martin has also directed August Wilson's "Fences" for the National Black Theater Festival.
Originally from Harlem, award-winning playwright, actor and screenwriter, Levy Lee Simon is a MFA graduate from the University of Iowa's Playwright's Workshop. The author of over twenty plays, which have been produced and read in theatres around the country, Simon's most notable is his award-nominated trilogy "For The Love Of Freedom" about the Haitian Revolution, co-produced by Danny Glover's Robey Theatre and the Greenway Arts Alliance, directed by Ben Guillory.
The Bow Wow Club is the recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Award for Best Full Length Play awarded by the ACTF and the Kennedy Center. Tickets may be purchased at the Stella Adler Theater at 6773 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Floor, Hollywood, California 90028, or by visiting www.bowwow411.com.
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