Leslie Jordan's PINK CARPET to Play West End's Apollo Theatre in Feb. 2011

As BroadwayWorld previously reported on November 2, award-winning Leslie Jordan, celebrated as one of the funniest men in Hollywood, is set to take the West End by storm in 2011 with the transfer from New York of his acclaimed one-man show, MY TRIP DOWN THE PINK CARPET. We have now learned that the show will play the Apollo Theatre in February.  

MY TRIP DOWN THE PINK CARPET, part autobiography, and part Hollywood tell-all, produced by Hollywood funny lady Lily?Tomlin among others, wowed New York audiences during a four-month run earlier this year at the Midtown Theater. An outrageous tell-all that weaves together a hilarious collection of true life stories (which were also the basis for his popular memoir, 'My Trip Down The Pink Carpet', recently published by Simon & Schuster), it is 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.

"This is actually just a cheap ploy to get an all expense paid trip to London," Leslie laughed, "but I am thrilled to be able to share my life story on another continent."

Pint-sized Jordan, hailed by the American critics as "an hysterical spitfire" and "comic gold",?made his name and won a coveted TV?Oscar - an Emmy - as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series as Beverley Leslie, the nemesis of infamous bitch Karen Walker, on 'Will & Grace'. Viewers in their hundreds of millons around the globe lapped it up as Leslie and Megan Mullally  traded barbs and insulted as the worst of enemies. Not many people know that his most famous role was originally written for Joan Collins, but the 'Dynasty' bitch refused to have her wig torn off in a fight scene with Mullally - just one of the  juicy Hollywood insider stores revealed in MY?TRIP?DOWN?THE?PINK?CARPET. Jordan has also made memorable appearances on 'Ally McBeal', 'Boston Legal', 'Monk' and 'Murphy Brown', as well as  the cult classic, 'Sordid Lives' alongside 'Golden Girl' Rue McClanahan and Olivia Newton?John.

A theatrical romp - from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood - MY?TRIP?DOWN?THE?PINK?CARPET tells the unlikely tale of how Leslie, raised in a conservative family in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 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 (including one memorable time alongside Boy?George, as a Kimono-wearing monkey, encased in prosthetic make-up by Rick Baker, the genius behind Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video and "An American Werewolf in London') and in major TV series.  Along the way he immersed himself in writing for the stage, but with success came dangerous temptations that threatened his career and life, including drug and alcohol dependency.

MY?TRIP?DOWN?THE?PINK?CARPET is produced by Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman, Dennis Grimaldi, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, Jean McFaddin/Susan Falk and Daniel Wallace in association with Julian Stoneman.

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