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The MisMatch Game: Camp Version of Classsic Game Show

Title: The MisMatch Game
Venue: Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center (Los Angeles, CA)
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50
Rating: 3.3 stars

Rated 3.3 by 2 members who went.

The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center presents the return of their cult-favorite show The MisMatch Game. A camp take on classic game show Match Game, the show features top local performers and comedians impersonating the show's regular panelists (including Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly). Local radio host Dennis Hensley portrays host Gene Rayburn in this wacky, spontaneous show.

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Members Who Went Said:

4 Star Rating
Written on
Aug 11 2008

Anthony Clark

Anthony Clark

I thought the show was great. Ok, I'm a bit bias. I was chosen to be a contestant and had a blast. I won some great prizes. The actors were very quick witted, funny and just campy. Cher and Shelly Winters was so funny I almost peed myself. The production was well thought out. It's just a fun night out with the girls (or boys).

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2 Star Rating
Written on
Aug 11 2008

Anonymous Member

The characters were original, creative, even sometimes funny. I loved Shelly and Modona and Charles Nelson Reily. We went as a group of eight celebrating a birthday party. It was the best thing for an evening of friends being silly. It was silly.

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More Details About This Event:

"Get ready to match the stars!" It’s time for another edition of The MisMatch Game. The L.A. cult favorite returns to the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Renberg Theatre.. Producer and host Dennis “Gene Rayburn” Hensley will be joined onstage by a panel of some of L.A.’s fastest, most creative and desperate comic minds. Hensley & Co. have generously offered to donate the run’s entire proceeds to benefit the full range of free and low-cost services at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.

The MisMatch Game regularly fills the house at its irregularly scheduled gigs at the Gay & Lesbian Center’s Renberg Theatre. Audiences keep coming back for the razor’s-edge improv (the panel has no clue what the questions will be) and the sassy, saucy wit and wildness.

Honoring the show as one of the ten best performances of 2004, The Advocate said, “This recurring Los Angeles happening reimagines the ‘70s TV game show Match Game with full-camp press and excellent sub-lebrity impersonations.” Scheduled to appear at one or both shows  of this latest edition: Patrick Bristow (“Tim Gunn”), Julie Brown (“Paula Abdul”), Kate Flannery (“Patty Duke”), Tom Lenk (“Heidi Klum”), Madeline Long (“Shelley Winters”), Sam Pancake (“Brett Somers”), Jack Plotnick (“Paul Lynde”), Felix Pire (“Ricardo Montalbán”), and Tony Tripoli (“Charles Nelson Reilly”).

With kitschy prizes for the contestants pulled from the audience, it’s time to dig out that leisure suit for an affectionate, irreverent, racy parody of ‘70s game show insanity.

Dennis Hensley is the L.A.-based co-host of the nationally syndicated gay radio show Twist, which airs locally on Sunday mornings on Star 98.7FM.  He's also the author of the Los Angeles Times best-selling novel Misadventures in the (213) and its follow-up, Screening Party, a stage version of which he performed to packed houses at the Renberg Theatre and in New York. In his 14 years as a free-lance writer, he has published articles in Us, TV Guide, Premier, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, The Advocate, Time Out, and many more. Hensley also co-wrote the feature film Testosterone, starring David Sutcliffe, Antonio Sabato Jr., Jennifer Coolidge and Sonia Braga and recently worked as a writer on the Lifetime comedy series Lovespring International.  He appeared in the feature film Girls Will Be Girls, as one of the 'Main Gays' on season one of Bravo's reality series, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List and is the regular host of Outfest’s Home Video Gong Show.

About L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center:

The purpose of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Cultural Arts Program is to serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community—and beyond—by presenting exciting, empowering, and inspirational bodies of work. Through theater, music, and art—endeavors that are vital to the human spirit—the community can come together, understand each other's lives, and celebrate the complex vitality of the human experience. Net proceeds from all Cultural Arts Program events are used to support the entire range of Gay & Lesbian Center services.

About Renberg Theatre at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center:

This 200-seat theatre features theatre, comedy, music and dance by established stars and talented newcomers. It is part of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center