GLAAD-Media Award winning show by "Trick" star makes New York debut.
November 13 - 15 at Laurie Beechman Theatre
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"Hilarious, inebriating and elegant all at the same time... If there were an award for most girlish and glamorous, funniest, mouthiest diva/icon/trannie/comedian, the inimitable Miss Coco Peru would win hands down." -- L.A. Weekly
"Miss Coco is a heavenly hoot... Wry and uncensored, the show is a hilarious exorcism, with music, no less. Hey, that's entertainment." --Los Angeles Times
"It's not often a drag queen scares you with her intellect, but Miss Coco Peru isn't just any drag queen. Hers is a deep, dark drag performance... Don't miss it." --The Stranger, Seattle
GLAAD Media Award-winning drag sensation COCO PERU returns to NYC with the New York Premiere of MISS COCO PERU IS UNDAUNTED! Directed by Michael Schiralli (Jackie Hoffman's Scraping the Bottom, Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue) performances run November 6-15, Friday-Sunday at 8pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (inside West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street -- at Ninth Avenue, accessible from the A,C,E,N,R,V,F,1,2,3 trains at 42nd Street). Tickets are $20 with a $15 food/drink minimum per person, available at www.SpinCycleNYC.com or 212-352-3101.
MISS COCO PERU IS UNDAUNTED! is an uncensored evening of sassy songs, amusing anecdotes and moving autobiographical stories about growing up in the Bronx, her slow rise to low-level celebrity, and the crap that has come in between. All her life Coco Peru has dreamed of fame and fortune... and she's still dreaming!
Storyteller/monologist Miss Coco Peru aka Clinton Leupp grew up in the Bronx on City Island and got his/her start as a downtown favorite in the cabaret world of NYC after he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his first show "Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret" in the early 1990s. On screen, Miss Coco is best known for her roles in Jim Fall's trick (Sundance 1999) and Richard Day's comedy Girls Will Be Girls. Other film appearances include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and Straight-Jacket. Coco can be heard in the Disney animated feature, The Wild as Mamma Hippo! Coco has appeared on TV in Arrested Development, Twins, Will and Grace, BravoÕs Boy Meets Boy, Bravos Sexiest Moments in Film, BravoÕs Welcome to the Parker, and in an Orbitz commercial that was nominated for a 2005 GLAAD Media Award. On MTVÕs Gay network, LOGO, Coco can currently be seen in her very own half-hour comedy special taped as part of the "Wisecrack" series and can soon be seen in the upcoming special: "One Night Stand-Up Ð Drag Queens" debuting in January.
Coco's live one-person shows include: "Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret", "Miss Coco Peru: A Legend in Progress" (1992 MAC and Bistro Award), "Miss Coco Peru at the Westbeth Theatre" (1995 MAC Nomination), "Miss Coco Peru's Liquid Universe"(1998 NY GLAAD Nomination), "Miss Coco Peru's Universe" (1999 LA GLAAD Nomination), "Miss Coco Peru's Glorious Wounds: She's Damaged" (2001 LA GLAAD Nomination) "Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted!" (2004 LA GLAAD Award Winner, Ovation Nomination), and most recently "Ugly Coco." These shows have been performed to sold out audiences in Theatres, Clubs, Restaurants, Ballrooms, Yachts, Living Rooms, Nudist Camps and Cabarets throughout the US and abroad.