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News Real Sex on HBO: Leguizamo's Sexaholix... to Air April 13 For those who missed John Leguizamo's one-man work, Sexaholix... a love story at Broadway's Royale Theatre, there are two more chances to catch it live, Feb. 22-23, at an HBO taping in Manhattan. The show adapted for the screen under the direction of Marty Callner will debut on the cable network April 13.

For those who missed John Leguizamo's one-man work, Sexaholix... a love story at Broadway's Royale Theatre, there are two more chances to catch it live, Feb. 22-23, at an HBO taping in Manhattan. The show adapted for the screen under the direction of Marty Callner will debut on the cable network April 13.

The performances will be taped at the just under 3000-seat Beacon Theatre — where the solo artist stopped last summer when developing the show. Tickets went on sale Feb. 12. All three of Leguizamo's previous solo efforts aired on HBO and won CableACE awards.

After spending the summer making his return to the live stage with a short national tour of a solo show titled John Leguizamo Live — an RCA recording of the show is available on CD — the piece, produced by Robin Tate, developed into Sexaholix... a love story. The show began previews on Broadway Oct. 9 and opened Nov. 4. The production extended twice before finally closing Feb. 10.

Director Peter Askin, who helmed Leguizamo's Mambo Mouth and Spic-O Rama reteams with the actor for this, his fourth and final solo venture as Leguizamo told Playbill On-Line, "I think that's it. They're fun and I love them but I want to leave at the top of my game." (To read the full interview with John Leguizamo, click Playbill On-Line's Brief Encounter feature.)

As in his earlier award-winning one-man performances, Leguizamo employs an "in your face" comedic style, covering in his words "relationships: dating, trying to 'get some', breaking up, break-up sex, make-up sex, marriage, divorce," and other topics including Latino history, childhood, family, and finally fatherhood, referencing his own experiences and relatives. The Colombian chameleon who first caught the eyes of the theatre world with his one man show Mambo Mouth — which won him an Obie and an Outer Critics Circle Award — later took the Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performance for his Spic O-Rama. His most recent stage work, Freak: A Semi-Demi-Quasi Pseudo Autobiography, garnered him a Tony nomination.

Also a viable film star, moviegoers may remember Leguizamo from recently as Toulouse Lautrec in Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge," in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" in drag as Miss Chi-Chi Rodriguez or in Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" as a Virgin Mary-gun toting Tybalt. His biggest role came in the 1999 Spike Lee joint "The Summer of Sam."

For tickets to the HBO live taping of Sexaholix at the Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway (at 74th Street), call (212) 307-7171 or visit www.ticketmaster.com. For both performances, the doors will open at 7 PM and close at 8PM.

 
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