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PW OPINION PW NEWS PW LIFE PW ARTS •INTO THE NIGHT• BY BLISS BOWEN Lisa Verlo •NITELIFE• Gray Area SIERRA MADRE RESIDENT LISA VERLO’S COMEDIC ‘MUSICAL MEMOIR’ ‘HOLLYWOODN’T’ SOLO SHOW AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE INCLUDES SONGS WRITTEN WITH HUBBY FRANK SIMES, CANDID TALK ABOUT SEX, HOLLYWOOD AND THE SPACE BETWEEN COERCION AND CONSENT Thursday June 20 through Wednesday June 26 PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for Calendar submissions is noon. Wednesday of the week before the issue publishes. PASADENA, SOUTH PASADENA & ALTADENA 1881 Bar 1881 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena (626) 314-2077 facebook.com/1881bar Fridays—Live jazz Saturdays—Gypsie jazz Wednesdays—Reggae The Blue Guitar Arroyo Seco Golf Course 1055 Lohman Lane, South Pasadena (323) 769-3500 blueguitar.club Thursday—Twanguero The Boulevard Bar 3199 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena (626) 356-9304 blvdbar.com Fridays—Drag performances hosted by Tia Wanna every Friday Cabrera’s Mexican Cuisine 655 N. Lake Ave., Pasadena (626) 795-0230 cabreras.com Thursdays—Live jazz Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays—Karaoke Coffee Gallery Backstage 2029 N. Lake Ave., Altadena (626) 798-6236 coffeegallery.com Thursday—The Salty Suites Friday—Victoria Vox Saturday—Thenagain Everly Brothers tribute Sunday—The Beatunes Beatles tribute Tuesday—Dave Harvey Presents Bill Barry, Austin Musick and Bliss Bowen, w/special guest Dylan Brody Wednesday—Nick Justice; Caris w/David Caris and Terry Ragno Der Wolfskopf 72 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena (626) 219-6054 derwolfskopf.com Fridays—“Night Court” features Deejay Kind Cromang spinning vinyl soul, funk, disco and boogie Edwin Mills by Equator 22 Mills Place, Pasadena (626) 564-8656 edwinmills.com Friday—Kindal Tate Saturday—Carina La Dulce Tuesday—Legendary Bingo fundraising event Wednesday—Anne O’Brien El Portal Restaurant 695 E. Green St., Pasadena (626) 795-8553 elportalrestaurant.com Fridays—Mariachi México Saturdays—Alanniz Sundays—Mariachi Bella Ice House 24 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena (626) 577-1894 icehousecomedy.com Thursday—Yaasss Comedy; Laugh Lounge w/ Mark Serritella; Friday—Bryan Callen; Deathsquad; The Better Seeing Is Believing POPULAR OLD BLIND DOGS BRING A BIT OF SCOTLAND BACK TO CALTECH Lisa Verlo wanted to write a musical about sex — a family musical, that is, with sex education elements. The longtime Sierra Madre resident writes musicals with her husband, Frank Simes (aka musical director for the Who), and at the time she was also separately writing about skeletons in the closets of certain Norwegian ancestors. Somehow those distinct thought trains merged and picked up speed on a new set of tracks. What arose from that was “Sex Rated G,” a onewoman show with music she performed at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which mixed Verlo’s personal history with “statistics, and commentary on body shaming.” Two years later, as the #MeToo tidal wave roared across the globe, she began retooling “Sex” with details from her own past as an actress, a change encouraged by director Jessica Lynn Johnson. Verlo is performing her “musical memoir,” retitled “Hollywoodn’t,” this Saturday and Wednesday as part of the Hollywood Fringe festival. She laughs now at how much her healthy, curious teenage self “just wanted to look at naked pictures in the library.” While working on her show, she explains, “I ended up writing sexual memoirs. I had a very strange introduction to sex. From 16 to 21, I was with the same guy, my first boyfriend. We decided to wait until I was 18 to go on the pill, and then we moved out to LA together [from Michigan]. It ended up he was into S&M, but young and innocent.” 18 PASADENA WEEKLY | <strong>06.20.19</strong> Landing in LA with said boyfriend and dreams of being an actress, Verlo studied at the Lee Strasburg Institute, and wrote letters to her “top 10 directors,” including Warren Beatty, who answered and, after lengthy conversation, invited her to a meeting at his house. Beatty comes across as relatively generous, in Verlo’s telling, but other characters she subsequently encountered were far less so. “I would be asked to compromise my values, basically, for a part,” she recalls. “I never did any porn but I did an AFI film where they asked me to take my top off because I was to play a 15-year-old girl and I was 24.” She agreed, thinking it was an art film. But when the grad student director drove her to the first screening, she says, “he totally molested me. I fought him off enough to have it not go further, but he was the director of the first movie I was in. I was really bummed because I thought he had a girlfriend and I thought it was safe.” Researching what happened to that director before performing an earlier incarnation of “Hollywoodn’t” at last year’s Fringe, Verlo learned he was a college professor — and had been arrested: “He had molested women in two or three colleges but nobody reported him. He was finally brought up on [charges of] actually having a sexual performance by a child. He did time, but only on weekends, and he’s out already.” That discovery galvanized her. Statistics were out of the script; the creepy director, his mind games, and some creatively deployed Barbie and Ken dolls were HOUSE FAVORITES OLD BLIND DOGS, A TOP SCOTTISH GROUP, RETURNS TO CALTECH SATURDAY FOR A PASADENA FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY SHOW. The Dogs have been a popular draw here, having sold out shows in the past. Saturday will mark the group’s sixth appearance at Caltech. As the Society’s usual venue, Beckman Institute Auditorium is being renovated, so the performance will be held in the larger Ramo Auditorium. Hailing from Aberdeenshire, the group is known for its high-energy performances, with soaring a fiddle playing, virtuoso pipe work and driving percussion, making the band’s live shows must-see events for lovers of the Scottish sound. Their latest album is “Room with a View.” Visit oldblinddogs.co.uk. — John Sollenberger Music starts at 8 p.m. Saturday in Ramo Auditorium, on the Caltech campus, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena. Tickets are $25 general admission, $5 for Caltech students and Children. Call (626) 395-4652 or visit pasadenafolkmusicsociety.org for tickets, information and a map to the venue.
PW OPINION PW NEWS PW LIFE PW ARTS •NITELIFE• in. Refocused on her sexual awakening and personal experiences, the new “Hollywoodn’t” confronts the “gray area” of coercion and consent. Verlo wants to take it on the college circuit. Onstage, she calls out Hollywood associates who professionally enable sexual predators. One is a woman, an acting teacher who advised the ingénue to sleep with Beatty: “You’ve probably done it for less, and he’s known for using a lot of women in his movies that he sleeps with.” “She was kind of jaded — like, this is what goes on. But I wasn’t, because I had only been with one boyfriend,” Verlo insists, laughing. “I had not done it for less!” That exchange inspired one of the hour-long show’s songs, the tongue-incheek “You’ve Done It for Less,” whose slinky beat evokes tacky lounges and cheap drinks: Show w/Rene Vaca Saturday—Six Weeks to Standup Comedy Workshop w/Rudy Moreno; Old School Presents; Comedy Juice Sunday—Dave McNary’s All Star Variety Show Wednesday—Ice House Open Mic; Wednesday Night Live w/Rudy Moreno Kings Row Gastropub 20 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-3010 kingsrowpub.com Thursday—Thirsty Thursday w/Mike Moody Friday—The Nic Fresard Trio; Saturday—The Krows Sunday—Reggae Sunday w/My Reggae Band; Will Champlin MEOWMEOWZ! Retro ‘80s Thrift Shop 2423 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 798-6969 facebook.com/meowmeowz Fridays and Saturdays—Live music every Friday and Saturday; all ages welcome Old Towne Pub 66 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena (626) 577-6583 theoldtownepub.com Live music most nignts of the week Pasadena Ballroom Dance Association 73 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena (626) 799-5689 pasadenaballroomdance.com Saturday—Saturday Swing Dance features James Intveld & the Swing Sinners Plate 38 2361 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 793-7100 , plate38.com Fridays & Saturdays—Live music on select Fridays & Saturdays The Mixx 443 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena (626) 500-0021 themixxclub.com Thursday—Jazz Moves Friday—Dinner and jazz w/The Jazz Zone Saturday—Dale Fielder Quartet Tuesday—Devon Rowland Blues Jam The Rose Paseo Colorado 245 E. Green St., Pasadena (888) 645-5006 wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com Thursday—Gary Hoey Friday—Erotic City Prince tribute Saturday—John Hiatt Sunday—Guitar Shorty T. Boyle’s Tavern 37 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena (626) 578-0957 tboylestavern.com Sunday—Action Trivia Tuesday—Action Trivia SAN GABRIEL VALLEY Arcadia Blues Club 16 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 447-9349 arcadiabluesclub.com Saturday—Artur Menezes The Buccaneer 70 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre (626) 355-9045 https://www.facebook.com/Buccaneer-847437898642883/ Wednesday—Wednesday Night Platter Party: Bring your fave vinyl to be spun on turntable First Cabin 46 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 446-2575 Fridays-Saturdays—Pat O’Brien & the Priests of Love exalt the blues and classic rock The Granada 17 S. First St., Alhambra (626) 227-2572 thegranadala.com Thursday—Deejay Zonik; Deejay Marco; Deejay Miro Friday—Live music w/Echo Park Project; Deejay Joey Vega; Deejay Vince; Deejay Miro Saturday—Live music w/La Salsa Orchestra; Deejay Jojo; Deejay Miro; Deejay Marco J.C. Hyke Songwriter Serenade Matt Denny’s Ale House Restaurant 145 E. Huntington Drive, Arcadia (626) 462-0250 mattdennys.com, jchyke.com Tuesday—Guest host John M; Nick Goodman; Hunter and the Wicked; Partners; Jeff Kossack & the Other Hand Pizza Place California 303 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel (626) 570-9622 facebook.com/pizzaplaceca Sundays—Open mic the first three Sundays of every month Villa Catrina 251 N. Santa Anita Ave., Arcadia (626) 294-1973 villacatrina.com Thursdays—Comedy open mic every first and third Thursday of the month Wednesdays—Karaoke w/Deejay Zary WEST OF PASADENA Colombo’s Restaurant 1833 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock (323) 254-9138, colombosrestaurant.com Thursday—Trifecta Friday—Steve Thompson; Blue Soul Saturday—Ernie Draffen; Doug McDonald Sunday—Sunny & Cher Monday—Eric Eckstrand Trio Tuesday—Tom Armbruster Wednesday—Karen Hernandez w/vocalist Marvin Robinson Days Inn Lounge 450 Pioneer Drive, Glendale (323) 259-5900, tommydodson.com Fridays—Tommy Dodson and friends present Cabaret Fridays The Oak and Vine 117 E. Harvard St., Glendale (818) 507-7011 theoakandvine.com Live music most nights of the week Winchester Room 6522 San Fernando Road, Glendale (818) 241-5475 thewinchesterroom.com Friday—Karaoke Saturday—Karaoke n “So he wants a little kiss, big deal Then he wants you to undress, get real … Run out and buy some lingerie To hang on that fine line between work and play And bask in the glory of being pursued It’s all in the moves and the attitude” “I could have made a misery out of it,” Verlo acknowledges, but a little laughter helps process weighty themes. And she still enjoys her teenage self’s sexual curiosity and love of flirtation. Bottom line: we need “a new language, a new vocabulary — not just a verbal vocabulary, but a physical vocabulary” about consent. “I feel like this is very cathartic, finally being able to come clean — not just as a person with my experiences, but even with myself. I started uncovering all the ways I had framed all these things that happened, just to feel OK about it. That’s also why my show [asks], what have we been conditioned to accept as inevitable? We were all just so conditioned. Child molestation is all about grooming. But we are groomed as a culture, by our media, to accept certain behavior and certain standards. … “What’s really amazing about doing this show: We uncover more and more all the time. You go deeper and deeper. Because when you really go for the truth of what’s underneath the motivations, that’s where you get the gold. That’s where you start resonating with others.” n Lisa Verlo performs “Hollywoodn’t” for ages 17+ at the Lounge Theatre, 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 22, and Wednesday, June 26; $22. Tickets: hollywoodfringe.org/projects/6087?tab=tickets. about.me/lisaverlo, theatreplanners.com/lounge.html All Bases Covered JOHN HIATT BRINGS HIS DIVERSE MUSICAL STYLE TO THE ROSE JOHN HIATT, A MULTIGENERATIONAL, MULTI-GENRE SINGER-SONGWRITER AND RECORDING ARTIST, VISITS PASA- DENA SATURDAY TO PERFORM AN ACOUSTIC SHOW AT THE ROSE NIGHTCLUB. Stylistically, Hiatt’s covered a lot of bases during his 40-plus-year career, including delving into new wave, blues and country. He adopted a blend of rock, country, blues and folk with his 1987 release, “Bring the Family.” Along the journey, Hiatt has garnered 11 Grammy nominations, plus a variety of other honors. His songs have been covered by artists including Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night and the Neville Brothers. His most recent release is the 2018 “The Eclipse Sessions.” Visit johnhiatt.com. — John Sollenberger Doors open at 6 p.m., special guest David Luning starts at 8 p.m. and Hiatt performs at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Rose, 245 E. Green St., Pasadena. Tickets are $48 to $78. Call (888) 645-5006 or visit wheremusicmeetsthesoul.com. <strong>06.20.19</strong> | PASADENA WEEKLY 19
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