Rush Tickets Available for L.A. Salome, with Al Pacino

Los Angeles theatregoers can now obtain rush tickets to see Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde's Salome.  At $28 they will be made available for each performance, for front orchestra, side-view seats. 

These rush tickets go on sale two hours prior to curtain time, for day-of-the-performance only, and will be available only at the Wadsworth Theatre Box Office. Cash only is accapted, and there is a limit two of tickets per person. There is no rush line-up prior to 5:30pm for evening performances and 12:30pm for matinee performances.

Salome plays 26 performances only, April 14 to May 14, at the Wadsworth Theatre. The Wadsworth Theatre and Box Office is located 11301 Wilshire Blvd. on the Veterans Administration Grounds.

Al Pacino, Kevin Anderson, Jessica Chastain and Roxanne Hart appear in a presentation with music of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece Salome. Presented as it was on Broadway in spring, 2003 by Robert Fox, Daryl Roth and Amy Nederlander, it is again directed by Estelle Parsons with original music by Yukio Tsuji.

Pacino and director Estelle Parsons spent nearly two years developing this production of Salome before bringing it to Broadway, and are now delighted to bring it to Los Angeles.  "We made the decision to mount Salome in this way because we felt it would better serve Wilde's text," said Pacino. "A staged reading yields a significant style unlike any other - it allows an audience the freedom to imagine and connect to the play in a different way."

"A dramatic production based on the biblical tale of lust and revenge, Oscar Wilde's Salome draws the audience into a decadent world of passion and betrayal.  Salome follows the legend of King Herod and his unbridled desire for Salome, the young daughter of his wife, Herodias.  Salome, indifferent to Herod's advances, longs for the love of the imprisoned John the Baptist. When he rejects her, she uses her powers of seduction and manipulation - and the Dance of the Seven Veils - to seek her revenge," state press notes.

This production of Salome was developed at the Actor's Studio (Estelle Parsons, Artistic Director) and was presented at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn (November 2002), at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY (February 2003), and on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (April, 2003).

An Irish-born English poet, novelist and playwright, Oscar Wilde was considered an eccentric, as he was leader of the aesthetic movement that advocated "art for art's sake" and was once imprisoned for two years with hard labor for homosexual practices. Salome, written in French, was refused a license in London but, 13 years later, was adapted by Richard Strauss into a successful opera. Translated by Lord Alfred Douglas, it later appeared in England.

Regular tickets are $68 to $93, premium seating is also available.  Call Ticketmaster at 213-365-3500 or visit www.WadsworthTheatre.com.

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