“…Mondo Lucha Variety Show transformed the Turner Hall Ballroom into a B-movie flick, a wild carnival ride that featured luchador wrestling, sideshow acts and burlesque, all tied together with the switchblade-brandishing tunes of the Uptown Savages, Milwaukee’s seven-piece rockabilly band.” Read the Shepherd Express review, HERE. “….Many of the performers got standing ovations.”
Month: September 2008
“We kind of envisioned it like watching the ‘Donny & Marie Show’ …on acid.”
“…..the Mondo Lucha Variety Show — at Turner Hall Ballroom at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27 — draws inspiration from performance art’s strange, seedy past with enough retro kitsch to fill a historic ballroom. It takes the art of Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling, the sass of burlesque and the curious intrigue of carnival freak […]