PORN AWARDS: THE MUSICAL Comes to Rockwell: Table & Stage

Max Ziegfeld's Porn Awards: The Musical!, welcoming you to The Annual Golden Dick Awards, will hit Rockwell: Table & Stage Dec. 18 at 8 PM.

The pageantry of Ziegfeld and the humor of modern burlesque collide in 10 hilarious new numbers by Santino DeAngelo with additional music by Beau Cassidy and Jim Territo.

Max Ziegfeld is a producer with a dream, to create an awards show that celebrates the two things he loves most: Musicals & Porn!

Walk the red carpet and get snapped by the paparazzi in Max Ziegfeld's Porn Awards: The Musical! Wacky vaudeville and comedy burlesque collide as small-time musical theater producer Max tries to bring his dream of hosting a sexy award show to the big time! Along the way, Max introduces you to his famous Hollywood friends Susan Sarandon, Liza Minelli, Jennifer Coolidge and more (all played by award-winning celebrity impressionist Carly Sakolove). With naughty audience awards and 10 original musical numbers ("Santino DeAngelo has a gift for engaging melodies" - New York Times), you'll be glad we came!

With choreography by Tiger Martina, the evening will feature performances from Beau Cassidy (Ogunquit Playhouse's Million Dollar Quartet), Riley Costello (Hairspray Live!, Bye Bye Birdie), Lesley McKinnell (Wicked national tour, Gentleman's Guide national tour), Lindsay Roginski (Chicago), Carly Sakolove (The Book of Merman, NEWSICAL), Amanda Hootman and more.

The book is by Max Ziegfeld, Jeremy Desmon and Santino DeAngelo with lyrics by Max Ziegfeld, music by Santino DeAngelo, Beau Cassidy and Jim Territo, and costume design by Chris Newlander.

Rockwell: Table & Stage is located at ?1714 N. Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles. There is a two-drink minimum. Tickets and information are available at http://tickets.rockwell-la.com.

MAX ZIEGFELD (lyricist, co-book writer) has had the pleasure of working with comedy great Marty Ingels, Jack Carter and Tony Curtis. He is the Creator and lyricists of Porn Awards: The Musical! and Bigfoot's Love Slave (winner of the 2017 LA Comedy Fest Best Music Video), directed by Emmy winner Heather Tom. Max studied at the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts where the dean once confided in him that it was better to be offensive than boring. Max took this to heart. Max is a regular at Flappers Comedy Club In Burbank and just opened for Judy Tenuta at the International Palm Springs Comedy Festival.

SANTINO DeANGELO (music) is a New York based playwright, composer+lyricist, and commercial producer of musical theater, experimental theater, orchestra, ballet, and film. Described by the New York Times as having a "gift for engaging melodies", ?Santino's music for the theater is frequently performed domestically and internationally. Full length plays and musicals include Foolerie (winner of NYMF 2015 Next Link Project), Sex Therapy, Slow to Burn, and A Haunting. Santino is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Rod Serling Award for Best Screenwriting (2007), NMI's 2014 New Voices Project (Walt Disney Imagineering), and is a 2011 Harpur Fellow. Recent and upcoming commissions include Essay for Orchestra for the Binghamton Philharmonic's 16/17 Season and When in Carthage, a new farce, for the Cider Mill Playhouse. Additional work for the concert hall: Fantasy Overture to the Trojan War, Salmacis: A Tale of Unrequited Love for Piano & Cello, and Narcissus: An Ancient Roman Pantomime (recently recorded for broadcast on WSKG/PBS). Santino is the Executive Producer of The Foolish Company in New York, the President of Binghamton's Art Mission and Theater, and a 2018 MFA Playwriting candidate at Columbia University. www.santinodeangelo.com

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