Emmy Winning Comedian LESLIE JORDAN In FRUIT FLY At The Waterfront

EMMY-WINNING COMEDIAN Leslie Jordan TO APPEAR AT THE WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE

The Waterfront Playhouse presents Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan as part of Key West Pride Week. Mr. Jordan will be bringing his critically-acclaimed new show, "Fruit Fly" to the Waterfront stage on June 8th and 9th at 8 pm. Tickets are $45, and they are going fast. Mr. Jordan is best known for his performance in the stage and film versions of "Sordid Lives," and his Emmy-winning turn as Beverley Leslie, the comic foil to Megan Mullally's Karen Walker on "Will and Grace." He has performed on Broadway, Off Broadway, film, TV and stages all over the world. As "Variety," the bible of show biz said, "If Leslie Jordan didn't exist, we'd have to invent him, this irrepressible, garrulous Chattanooga pixie who got through a Southern Baptist childhood and stirrings of Gay Lib and lived triumphantly to tell the tale."

"Fruit Fly" asks the eternal question 'Do gay men become their mothers?' To answer that question, Mr. Jordan travels back in time using show-and-tell to take the audience on a hilarious, and sometimes touching, journey. From the day a teenage Leslie sits down with his caring but clueless mother to inform her that he has decided to forego college to become a female impersonator, all the way to a gay Alaska cruise with 2,000 gay men on which a 53-year old Mr. Jordan witnesses his aging mother's astounding metamorphosis, Mr. Jordan is in his element.

"The Dallas Examiner says "'Fruit Fly' is supremely delicious, authentic, poignant, and howlingly funny…I recommend this show to anybody, regardless of orientation." BroadwayWorld.com raves "The name Leslie Jordan is synonymous with funny, saucy, sassy and simply sensational."

Tickets are available at the Waterfront Playhouse box office at 305-294-5015 or online at www.WaterfrontPlayhouse.org.

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Currently spending his time between New York and Florida, Beau was born to a theatrical family in Brooklyn. He studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at HB Studios. He studied theater singing with Julia Sperratore and Helen Gallagher. Beau later taught drama at the Lincoln Center Square for the Arts. It was at this time Beau began working with the Theater Development Fund and helped found New York's famed HALF PRICE TICKET BOOTH. Early in his career, Beau was screen tested and contracted for Warner Brothers. He co-hosted, an early cable variety series on Manhattan's Teleprompter channel. At this time he directed the Johnny Specca musical, SEX IS..? at the Lincoln Center Library Theater. Beau has performed Off-Broadway in FAT FELL DOWN, The Comic Strip Theater's LITTLE LULU AND THE INVISIBLE INK and WILL THE REAL ZOOPERMAN PLEASE STAND UP. Around the country he has delighted audiences with his performances in ANYTHING GOES, THE APPLE TREE, GUYS & DOLLS, and HELLZAPOPPIN! He sang for New York audiences at such cabarets as The Duplex and Upstairs at the Downstairs. He has had numerous television appearances but is most proud to have been a winning contestant on the game shows JACKPOT and THE $20,000 PYRAMID.

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