| Subject: Meet Jade Esteban Estrada in St. Louis! |
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Date Posted: 04:56:01 11/11/03 Tue
The Bronze Icon Tour hits the Gateway City:
TV STAR ESTRADA RETURNS TO ST. LOUIS FOR A WEEK-LONG ENGAGEMENT OF GAY HISTORY EXTRAVAGANZA
NEW YORK, N.Y.-October 11, 2003- What do Sappho, MichelAngelo, Oscar, Gertrude, Sylvia and Ellen all have in common? They are all coming to St. Louis---at the same time.
Ragged Blade Productions in association with Vicarious Productions is very pleased to announce the week-long engagement of Estrella award-winning TV actor JADE ESTEBAN ESTRADA in his solo musical ICONS: THE LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD, VOL. 1 November 18-23, 2003 at The Theatre at St. John's located at 5000 Washington Place in St. Louis, Missouri. Performance times are listed below. Tickets are $15 and available at the door. For reservations or group rates please call 314-276-8639. www.IconsofHistory.com or www.RaggedBlade.com. The run is 10 of 40 performances in a ten-city tour through the United States called THE BRONZE ICON TOUR.
TEN PERFORMANCES ONLY!
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8pm
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8pm-Out For Dean-A Performance for the Dean for America Campaign
Thursday, November 20, 2003 8pm
Friday, November 21, 2003 8pm and 10:15 pm
Saturday, November 22, 2003 3pm, 8pm and 10:15 pm
Sunday, November 23, 2003 3pm and 7pm
No stranger to St. Louis audiences, Estrada was the headliner for the Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival in 1999 and 2000 and was a featured national act for Pride St. Louis in 2000 and 2002 where he performed music from his debut CD ANGEL. This is the singer’s fifth St. Louis engagement.
ICONS: THE LESBIAN AND GAY HISTORY OF THE WORLD, VOL. 1 is a glittering presentation of the history of the Lesbian and Gay people as told through the voices of Sappho, MichelAngelo, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Rivera and Ellen DeGeneres and has won glowing reviews in the media. The show is directed by Jeff Wills and costume design is by Aliza with additional musical arrangements by Tracy Stark.
Estrada, who recently endorsed Governor Howard Dean for President by hosting a party in Miami for campaign supporters, world premiered the show at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival in September 2002. It has since enjoyed five New York productions at such notable venues as The Producer’s Club, the Pantheon Theatre, Theatre for the New City, the Milagro Theatre and Off The Map Theatre including a very special performance for LGBT youth at the Hetrick-Martin Institute/Harvey Milk School.
Ray Romano of Sirius Radio’s Broadway’s Best hails “ICONS is a triumph!” Robert Urban of Stonewall Society calls it “charming, ambitious, and yes! scholarly!” Columbus Dispatch calls it “compelling…Broadway caliber!”
"Jade Esteban Estrada's ICONS is a theatrical history of prominent gays and lesbians that is palatable to mainstream audiences while maintaining a decidedly queer perspective...an entertaining vehicle for an admirable agenda," affirms Frank Episale of the Off-Off Broadway Review.
Estrada is nationally recognized for having his music on the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning police drama "THE SHIELD" on the FX network. He also stars in “PERSONAL MOMENTS IN HISTORY” on the Emmy nominated Lesbian and Gay Newsmagazine show “IN THE LIFE” on PBS scheduled to air in January 2004. Out Magazine christens him as "the first gay Latin star” and NBC San Diego calls him “America’s Prince of Pride.” The Advocate calls him "exquisite Jade." Urban Latino TV has calls him "a 21st century Oscar Wilde" due to his cutting-edge theatrical endeavors on Off-Broadway in New York as performer and director.
Genre Magazine calls him "the most exciting Latin pop artist ever to emerge onto the music scene." He is also a featured artist on the benefit CD BEING OUT ROCKS (Centaur) where he joins Cyndi Lauper, Taylor Dayne, k.d. lang, the B-52's and Sarah MacLachlan and other stars in support of the Human Rights Campaign as well as the "American guest artist" on the Canadian equivalent FABULOUS GAY TUNES, VOL. 2 (Chris Michael).
The 2003 Timmy Award Nominee for Best Singer of the Year was also awarded the PREMIO ESTRELLA in October 2002 by LLEGO (the Washington D.C.-based LGBT Latino organization) at the 9th Annual Encuentro Awards in Miami for outstanding work and visibility in the entertainment industry as an openly gay Latino. In September, Estrada also won the 2003 Spotlight Award for outstanding contribution to the international LGBT community.
The Bronze Icon Tour is sponsored in part by The Vital Voice.
For more information or to request a media kit, artwork or an interview please contact Greta Golding at 646-271-6845 or e-mail us at greta@vicariousnewyork.com. You can also visit the official website at www.IconsofHistory.com.
BRONZE ICON TOUR
Coming to a city near you:
Sept 28 Brooklyn, New York
Nov 1 Peoria, Illinois
Nov 14 Albany, New York
Nov 17-23 St. Louis, Missouri
Nov 24-25 Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Nov 29-30 San Antonio, Texas
Jan 2 Houston, Texas
Feb 3-8 Dallas, Texas
Feb 11-15 Little Rock, Arkansas
Jun 19 Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Greta Golding- Director of Media Services
Vicarious New York
greta@vicariousnewyork.com
212-561-0493 TEL
646-271-6845 CELL
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