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Don’t miss “The MisMatch Game” this weekend at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre!

I have friends visiting from out of town this weekend and know that making Dennis Hensley’s The MisMatch Game a part of our Saturday night will be all kinds of fun.  I can’t wait to see their reaction to the great Jackie Beat as Bea Arthur!

The latest edition of this always hilarious event will take place on Friday, September 13, and Saturday, September 14, at 8 p.m.

The side-splitting parody of the ‘70s game show has set the rafters ringing with laughter since its debut in 2004. The LA Times has called it “witty, ribald … an adventure in surrealist era bending.”

Creator, producer, and host Dennis “Gene Rayburn” Hensley will again be joined onstage by a panel of some LA’s most creative, hilarious, and demented minds. Hensley and company are once again generously donating the proceeds to benefit the Center’s array of free and low-cost services. Since its debut in 2004, The MisMatch Game has raised well over $140,000 for the Center. With kitschy prizes for volunteer contestants pulled from the audience, it’s time to dig out that leisure suit for another run of the perennial cult favorite.

Fractured celebrity impersonations include such luminaries (living and otherwise!) as Bea Arthur, Jack Nicholson, Zooey Deschanel, Ricardo Montalbán, Julia Child, Pee Wee Herman, and President Barack Obama. Visit lalgbtcenter.org/theatre for casting news. All appearances are subject to availability.

The cast on Friday, September 13, will include (in alphabetical order) Jackie Beat (Bea Arthur), Danny Casillas (Reba Areba), Jackie Clarke (Elizabeth Taylor), Danté (Jack Nicholson), Maile Flanagan (Danny Bonaduce), and Rebekah Kochan (Pamela Anderson). On Saturday, September 14, the cast will feature Jackie Beat (Bea Arthur), Daniele Gaither (Wendy Williams), Nadya Ginsburg (Cher), Chris Pudlow (Pee-wee Herman), Marc Samuel (Barack Obama), and Willam (Jessica Simpson). All appearances are subject to change. Visit lalgbtcenter.org/theatre for updates.

The MisMatch Game regularly fills the house at its irregularly scheduled gigs at the Renberg Theatre. Audiences keep coming back for the razor’s edge improv and the racy, anarchic, and decidedly un-PC wit and wildness. The Advocate honored The MisMatch Game with a “10 Best Theatre” citation that said, “This recurring Los Angeles happening re-imagines the ‘70s TV game show The Match Game with full-camp press and excellent sub-lebrity impersonations.”

General admission tickets are $15 and may be purchased online at lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at 323-860-7300. The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard) in Hollywood 90038.

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