The traveling N.O. band that calls Asheville its home away form home returns today for a string of shows through Sunday. Jim “Sister Bad Habit” Lauzon is a huge fan. There’s a theremin. Plus music, a game show, aerialists, dancers, clowns, audience interaction, slapstick comedy–and bingo.
Tickets are $20-$25. Shows are at 8 and 10 with a 8 p.m. show Sunday (no 10 p.m. show).
Two tickets to the Thursday night 8 p.m. show belong to the second unique commenter. Just be the second commenter, and win.
Only commenters who have not won anything from Ashvegas in the last 30 days are eligible to win. Please use your correct first and last name in your comment, so we know who to hold your tickets for.
Ticket contests on Ashvegas (USUALLY) happen at 9 a.m. and/or 3 p.m weekdays, though we reserve the right to run a contest anytime.
“We always look forward to those Asheville performances. Our shows are always audience interactive, but Asheville folks really get into it. Sometimes it almost feels like they’re putting on a show for us. I love that about our show and I love that about Asheville.”
– Ron Rona a.k.a. Ronnie Numbers
“A ludicrous amalgamation of rock and bingo led by showmen with facepaint and a theremin…” ~The Chicago Tribune
BiographyBeginning in humble circumstances playing to the rear end of a fried chicken shack, traveling the far reaches of the world from the U.S. to the Continent to the corners of the Far East and landing right back where they started in the storied and seedy streets of the French Quarter, the New Orleans Bingo! Show remains a curious spectacle, a thrilling phenomenon and one of the very finest entertainm
ents on the theatrical stage today.Dressed in black, white and red like the leering faces on a good poker hand, the Bingo! Show is a multimedia stage experience that includes original black-and-white silent films, aerialists, dancers, ingénues, clowns, audience interaction, bingo games, slapstick comedy and shady characters who remind you that every stage door opens into a dark alley.Ringleader – or ringmaster – Clint Maedgen, a Louisiana native and sixteen-year New Orleans resident, writes love songs to the bohemian beauty of downtown New Orleans with heartbreaking purity and unimpeachable
chops; his songs swell with tenderness and crackle with sinister menace in equal parts. Rounded out with occasional upright bass, organ, musical saw, theremin, siren, pantomime, flashlight, found percussion and suspicious behavior, the band is a Brechtian cabaret funneled through New Orleans’ Ninth Ward via the noir surrealism of Twin Peaks.In recent years, The New Orleans Bingo! Show has forged a deep involvement with the New Orleans traditional jazz institution the Preservation Hall Jazz Band– touring with them, joining the show and working with the band to update, twist and preserve the unique quality that is New Orleans style showmanship.But as in the finest dime museums, sideshows and collections of oddities since the dawn of vaudeville, seeing is believing. So step up to the ticket booth, surrender a nominal sum and allow yourself to be astonished, amazed and amused by America’s best-loved musical gameshow cabaret –
The New Orleans Bingo! Show.
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Just a quick note–that’s actually a typo: Sunday’s show is at 8:00 p.m., not 5:00.
See you all soon!
Chall Gray
Fixed. Thanks, Chall.
o dang, caroline has the fast fingers.
Well supposedly I won something several weeks ago but never got any followup of contact on tix or anything so I think it should be a voided win since it certainly was disappointing.
Regardless, even if I don’t get this win – I saw these guys last year and they are FABULOUS. Who ever gets the tickets, enjoy them because they are a great act.
Oh no, Jenny SO sorry! What contest did you win? I’ll look into it today and we’ll figure a new prize out.
Hey! I like bingo!
yay!
Am I the second unique commenter? 🙂
Caroline Geunes, by the way…
You are. Caroline’s our winner. Congrats!
Yay! Thank you so much. Looking forward to it.
Next commenter go go go!