70’S ICON TELLY SAVALAS COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD IN BREAKTHROUGH LOUNGE ACT AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FEST
May 23, 2011Tom DiMenna Embodies the Legend In “Who Loves You, Baby?”
Premiering June 18, 2011 At the Improv Olympic Theater Dir. by Taylor Negron
Los Angeles, CA – May xx, 2011 – Telly Savalas (or Kojak as he is more widely known) is making his post-humous debut in Who Loves You, Baby?, a surreal retro-lounge act starring Tom DiMenna and directed by Taylor Negron (Fast Times At Ridgemont High, The Last Boyscout). The latest incarnation of the cult-hit show will premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the Improv Olympic Theater on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 11pm for a show run until Sunday, June 26th.
“Telly’s an angel now. A messenger. Working for the Big Guy In the Sky.” And he’s here to teach the cynical hipsters of today a thing or two about what it means to be a real man. Telly’s got a beautiful sermon for you, baby, and he’s going to deliver it with a lot of piano-backed singing (often while smoking), penetrating gazes at the women in the audience and occasionally...
Who Loves You, Baby?
February 02, 2011Directed by Taylor Negron
Starring Tom DiMenna as Telly Savalas
Written by Hunter Nelson
“Tom DiMenna channels and performs Telly with comedic gusto and 70’s chic bravado.”
Paul Stein, Artistic Director, Comedy Central Stage
“Oh Yeah!”
Libby Molyneaux, LA Weekly
“We need to get this show to Vegas!”
Fern Champion, Fmr. Casting Dir. of KOJAK
Directed by veteran actor/comedian Taylor Negron, this comic celebration of Telly Savalas’ strange grip on the culture of the 1970’s stars Tom DiMenna as the Golden Greek; the quintessential man’s man of that era. Negron met DiMenna at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival two years ago and they’ve been working on the show since.
“Who Loves You, Baby?” pays homage to the contagious catchphrase, swaggering charisma, and iconic bald head of the "little Greek kid with the big nose from the neighborhood,” who became an international sensation with the m...