GONG SHOW LIVE Coming to Boulton Center for the Performing Arts
By: Tyler Peterson Jul. 08, 2015
While the iconic and critically acclaimed GONG SHOW LIVE is preparing for its 2015-2016 Off-Broadway Season in Manhattan, the acclaimed lunatic comedy has been commissioned for one blowout Event and Extravaganza at the beautiful BOULTON CENTER for the PERFORMING ARTS in Bay Shore, Long Island.
Executive Produced and Directed by LESLIE GOLD (The Award-Winning Radiochick) and produced by Emmy-Nominated Peppy Castro and Broadway's Kenn Lubin in association with Sony Television Pictures, THE GONG SHOW LIVE opened in New York at B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill (42nd Street) on Thursday, August 12, 2010 as a tri-annual sold-out event, which garnered across-the-board rave notices that, after two years, led to the move to the brand new Cutting Room where it opened on Thursday, November 1, 2012 to more critically acclaimed sold-out shows and where it held forth through May 1, 2015 when it opened Off-Broadway at The Davenport Theatre on 45 Street.
THE ICONIC BACKGROUND
Between the years of 1976 and 1981 THE GONG SHOW was aired to millions of households in six countries where it collected billions of dollars from its advertisers.
It was one of the most recognized brands in the worldwide pop culture lexicon. Its very title promised a good time. Guaranteed. Money back. Good time. Designed and built specifically for its audience, it delivered euphoric results to EVERYONE watching at home; but MOST importantly to EVERYONE in the Studio Audience. Hundreds and thousands of people barnstormed the NBC Studios in Burbank, California daily in the hopes of getting tickets to this runaway train. The real fun was being there and EVERYONE in America knew it. THE GONG SHOW experience was AUDIENCE-OBSESSED and manically driven by an elf-sized nuclear reactor called CHUCK BARRIS who reveled in the presentation of the famous winner's $516.32 check endorsed by the network's brass back at the Head Office, an office he was filling with mountains of cash from the 24 network shows he was single-handedly producing.
THE GONG SHOW LIVE has been theatrically recreated. reimagined, redesigned and redirected for the Off-Broadway Stage and the toughest audiences in the world. And those New Yorkers have heralded its very seasoned cast as the funniest in the industry.
THE CAST
Amy Harlib as Amazing Amy
Mike Gold as Larry Latex
Chipps Cooney as The Great Chipps Cooney
Zac Levovitz as Mordechai
Paul Dudrich as Father Paul
Adrianne Frost as Rhonda Smith Duffy Coris
Jenn Dodd as Jennifer Casino
Mike Karas as Michael Momentum
Rhonda Denet as Sunshine Denet
Austin Barry - Austin Barry
Daniel McRitchie as Big Daddy Demarco
Ben Hersey as Spoonatra
Johnny McCarthy as The Unknown Comic
Kayleigh Truman as Steampunk Kay-Lee
Jennifer Dodd as Jenn Casino
Samara Cohen as Princess Lockeroo
Sasha Gaulin as Sasha the Fire Gypsy
and
Robert Wilson as Teen Gene the Dancing Machine
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