Team Long Beach Announces Benefit Performance with Miss Coco Peru

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Local nonprofit, Team Long Beach is excited to announce a special Long Beach performance by Miss Coco Peru of her hit show “She’s Got Balls” benefiting their AIDS/LifeCycle fundraising efforts. The show will be at 8:00 PM on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the Ernest Borgnine Theater (855 Elm Street) in Long Beach. VIP Reception 6pm, General Reception 7pm, Show 8pm. Tickets $25-60 available at http://MissCocoinLongBeach.brownpapertickets.com.

Long Beach, CA, United States., February 26, 2013 - (PressReleasePoint) -

For Immediate Release
 
By John Hannum
February 25, 2013
 
Long Beach, CA – Local nonprofit, Team Long Beach is excited to announce a special Long Beach performance by Miss Coco Peru of her hit show “She’s Got Balls” benefiting their AIDS/LifeCycle fundraising efforts.
 
Award-winning Storyteller, Monologist, and Star of Stage and Screen Miss Coco Peru (aka Clinton Leupp), has engaged and humored audiences around the globe with her unique brand of humor. In her latest show “She’s Got Balls”, she reflects on her early childhood dreams of being a stripper, her crush on the Creature from the Black Lagoon, her love/hate relationship with Facebook, why she left her beloved hometown of NYC, and her summers spent on a nude beach with her husband, Rafael (he’s from Spain). Inspired by her mother Helen’s advice to have the balls to say whatever the hell she feels like saying, Coco is on a quest to do just that and, in the process, make the world just a little more beautiful. After all, she does what she can do. Come see why Lily Tomlin called Miss Coco Peru “One of the last great storytellers”!
 
The show will be at 8:00 PM on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the Ernest Borgnine Theater (855 Elm Street) in Long Beach. There will be a VIP Reception at 6:00 pm, which is included in the price of VIP tickets, and a cocktail hour for all ticketholders at 7:00pm. Both receptions will feature a cash bar.
 
Ticket prices are $60 for VIP seating (which includes a VIP reception), $35 for Orchestra seating, and $25 for Mezzanine seating. Tickets are currently available, and may be ordered by specific row at http://MissCocoinLongBeach.brownpapertickets.com Miss Coco has sold out many of her previous engagements in Long Beach, so early purchase of tickets is encouraged.
 
By bringing Miss Coco to Long Beach, Team Long Beach hopes to raise $25,000 to support AIDS and HIV health, testing, education and prevention services. “The Team couldn’t be happier that Miss Coco has agreed to come to help raise crucial funds to fight this insidious disease, and everyone is really looking forward to a wonderful evening of entertainment,” said Melinda Elmer, AIDS/Lifecycle participant and Captain of Team Long Beach.
 
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About Miss Coco Peru
 
Miss Coco Peru, aka Clinton Leupp, grew up in the Bronx and got his/her start as a downtown favorite in the cabaret world of New York City in the early 1990s.
    
On screen, Miss Coco is best known for her roles in Jim Fall's Fineline feature film trick (Sundance 1999) and Richard Day's IFC feature-length comedy Girls Will Be Girls. For this film Coco shared the Best Actress Award with co-stars Jeffery Roberson and Jack Plotnick, at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival and the Best Actor Award at Outfest Film Festival. Other films: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar; and Straight-Jacket. In the Disney animated feature The Wild, Coco voiced Mamma Hippo! She just completed shooting the highly-ish anticipated sequel to Girls Will Be Girls, which is expected to be released this summer.
 
TV appearances include: "How I Met Your Mother", Arrested Development, Twins, Will & Grace, New York Undercover, Detroit 1-8-7, and an Orbitz commercial that was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. On BRAVO, Coco has been seen on Boy Meets Boy, Bravo’s Sexiest Moments in Film, Welcome to the Parker and Watch What Happens Live. Coco also has appeared on LOGO in two stand-up comedy specials: Wisecrack and Dragtastic.
 
Coco’s live, solo shows include: Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret, Miss Coco Peru: A Legend in Progress (’92 MAC and Bistro Award), Miss Coco Peru at the Westbeth Theatre (’95 MAC Nomination), Miss Coco Peru's Liquid Universe (‘98 GLAAD Nomination), Miss Coco Peru's Universe (’99 LA GLAAD Nomination), Miss Coco Peru’s Glorious Wounds…She’s Damaged (’01 LA GLAAD Nomination) Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted (’04 GLAAD Award Winner, Ovation Nomination), UGLY COCO and Miss Coco Peru: THERE COMES A TIME. These shows have been performed to sold out audiences in Theatres, Clubs, Restaurants, Ballrooms, Yachts, Living Rooms, Backyards, Nudist Camps and Cabarets throughout the US and abroad.
 
Coco hosts an ongoing, live series of shows at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Renberg Theater called Conversations With Coco, in which Coco interviews and celebrates the lives and careers of the LGBT community's favorite icons. Miss Peru's guests have been the amazing Bea Arthur, the sassy Lainie Kazan, drag legend Mr. Charles Busch, the beautiful Lesley Ann Warren, the indomitable Karen Black, and the legendary Lily Tomlin.  She is also available for children's parties!
 
About Team Long Beach
 
Team Long Beach is “A diverse and inclusive group of individuals and activists uniting to support the community of its members through fundraising, education, safety and volunteerism.” In addition to riding in AIDS/Lifecycle, members of Team Long Beach interact with the community in many ways to make our world a better place. For more about Team Long Beach, please visit the website at www.teamlongbeach.org.
 
About AIDS/LifeCycle

AIDS/LifeCycle is co-produced by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and is designed to advance their shared interests to end the pandemic and human suffering caused by AIDS.
 
The goals of AIDS/LifeCycle are to:
 1.Raise funds to support the HIV/AIDS services of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation;
 2.Increase awareness and knowledge about the services and programs offered by the benefiting organizations;
 3.Increase awareness and knowledge about HIV/AIDS among participants, their donors and the general public;
 4.Increase AIDS activism and volunteerism among the participant and donor communities, inspiring them to become ambassadors in the fight against AIDS;
 5.Provide a positive, life-affirming experience for people affected and infected by HIV;
 6.Contribute to an increased understanding of the disproportionate impact HIV has had on the GLBT communities in SF and LA;
 7.Encourage an environment of dignity and improved quality of life for those affected by HIV and AIDS.

Learn more about AIDS/LifeCycle at www.aidslifecycle.org
 
Contact
To learn more about this event, please contact
 
John Hannum
Event Coordinator - Team Long Beach
Phone: (562)666-2310
Fax: (949)643-4138
Events@teamlongbeach.org


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