Johnny Valiant Live Comedy Show in NYC on 1/15
Submitted by Matthew Tremley on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 11:04 AM EST







• Evan Ginzburg sent in the following:
  
  THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED “AN EVENING WITH JOHNNY VALIANT” RETURNS TO NEW YORK ON JANUARY 15 8PM AFTER A ONE YEAR ABSENCE AT RENOWNED BOWERY POETRY CLUB
  
  January 15, 2005 8PM sharp
  The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery NYC
  212-614-0505
  All tickets $10. General admission.
  
  Contact: Evan Ginzburg (Manager Johnny Valiant)
  evan_ginzburg@yahoo.com
  www.johnnyvaliant.net
  www.wrestlingthenandnow.com
  
  A pro wrestler at a “poetry club?”
  
  Yes, it makes sense if it’s WWF Hall of Famer and critically acclaimed performance artist/actor Johnny Valiant.
  
  Having an extended run of “An Evening with Johnny Valiant” at New York’s Theater for the New City last year, “Luscious Johnny” has honed his 1 man show in Boston and throughout the country over the past year. And now he’s back in his home town of NYC for a one night only show at the renowned Bowery Poetry Club on 1/15 at 8 pm.
  
  A question and answer session and meet and greet will follow the performance.
  
  "He hugs his microphone, peers into the intimately situated crowd and sets sail on a one-man show that slices and dices his days as a professional wrestler with animated humor and unexpected sensitivity: fall-out-of-your-seat funny."
  
  (Kenny Herzog- Long Island Press)
  
  "Stuns like a side piledriver"
  
  (The Village Voice)
  
  "He is funny, prowling the stage and using his graying, 240-pound frame as a comic prop. It's as if Spalding Gray had, at least for a few minutes, entered the body of Jonathan Winters."
  (Microsoft's Slate)
  
  "The one-man show serves as a confessional of sorts, an exorcism of the demons one accumulates on the sleeper-hold circuit."
  
  (Time Out New York)
  
  "Johnny Valiant adds excitement to anything he performs in...he brings so much...he is awesome."
  
  (Billy Merritt of Piledriver-- Upright Citizens Brigade Troop)
  
  Autographs and merchandise available.
  
  Bowery Poetry Club: foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker across the street from CBGBs F train to Second Ave, or 6 train to Bleecker
  
  Food @ this club? Sandwiches, soup, salads -- fresh, homemade. delicious pastries and desserts. Truly excellent coffee! Unusual soft drinks. Juice, beer, wine, booze at the bar. Plenty of upscale restaurants nearby, if your heart desires more. Driving directions at the Bowery Poetry Club’s website at: www.bowerypoetry.com
  

  
  

  
  
  

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