GILDA: A TRIBUTE TO THE BELOVED COMEDIENNE GILDA RADNER

Gilda: A Tribute to the Beloved Comedienne Gilda Radner

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Helena K. Cosentino
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Gilda: A Tribute to Gilda Radner a one-woman show created and performed by Helena K. Cosentino comes to Hollywood Fringe Festival for five performances. It premiered in Kansas City, Missouri in the fall of 2015. Helena donates her proceeds to the local Gilda’s Club or Cancer Support community.

Gilda Radner, one of the most iconic and beloved comediennes of our time will be honored in this one-woman performance. This tribute will pay homage to some of Gilda’s infamous characters and quirky musical numbers. Gilda used humor and laughter to get through the struggles and cruelty of a life cut short, from being the fat kid to a young woman on top of her game struck with terminal cancer. Her comedy truly made fun of the very things she battled. This show is for all us who loved watching her on SNL each week and also for the younger generations to transport them back to a time where humor was innocent yet edgy and poignant. Gilda is a classic and timeless force that will live with us for generations to come. This show is dedicated to anyone going through Cancer or any challenging event, hoping to capture and share a glimpse of Gilda’s amazing spirit and inspire laughter through life.

When: June 10th at 7:50 PM
June 11th at 1:50 PM
June 17th at 9:50 PM
June 18th at 5:50 PM
June 19th at 11:50 AM

Where: The Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Helena K. Cosentino resides in Kansas City where she is actively involved in the theatre community there. She received her MA in Collaborative Theatre at Lesley University in Boston and is also a proud Alumni of the Theatre Department at Missouri State (SMSU) where she received her bachelors in Theatre. Helena has been a Theatre teacher for 15 years and a performer all her life. You can often see her as a guest star for Kansas City’s Late Night Theatre. After graduate school, Helena developed Storizenmotion a collaborate theatre process for creating original work through improvisation inspired by Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theatre, Anna Halprin’s Life-Art Process, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, Playback Theatre, and Gabrielle Roth’s Five Rhythms. Some of her favorite performances include: Storizenmotion, Hank, Syvvie and Gina in The Kathy and Mo Show, Salome in The Robber-Bridegroom, Aunt Martha in Arsenic and Old Lace and She & Her’s production’s Orange Flower Water. Her directing favorites: The Juniper Project, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, Conference of the Birds, Midsummer Nights Dream and Les Miserables.

Press passes available

Tickets: $12 http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/3127
To make an extra donation to the Cancer Support Community (Benjamin Center) here in Los Angeles use code CSC15 or CSC20 Information on the community can be found at www.cancersupportcommunitybenjamincenter.org