Seth Landsberg Family Foundation & FABULOUS MONSTERS presents

June 10th through July 3rd
El Portal Theater at 5269 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood

Los Angeles theatre company garners

The critically acclaimed Los Angeles-based Fabulous Monsters Performance Group production of "RAMAYANA 2K4," after a brief but amazing 3 week run at NYC's famous La MaMa, ETC, has been nominated for 5prestigious Drama Desk Awards.

Matching the Pulitzer Prize winning I am My Own Wife and Boy George's Taboo!
Beating out the multi-million dollar Bombay Dreams!
In the Top 10 nominated productions including Wicked, Assassins, Wonderful Townand Caroline, or Change!
One of only 3 nominated for the most Unique Theatrical Experience!

Described as the love-child of Cirque du Soleil and The Lion King, the twenty member ensemble of actors, dancers and acrobats of Ramayana 2K4 will return home to LA to share their gsumptuousc stylish and sexy production with you once again at the El Portal Theater in the No Ho Arts District of North Hollywood from June 10th through July 3rd.

This is a four week only engagement before returning to NYC's Little Schubert Theatre on 42nd Street for an open-ended, extended run.
June 10-12, 16-19, 22-25, 29-July 3 at 8:00pm
June 13, 20 and 27(Sundays) matinees at 2:30pm
$25, $35 and $18(students/seniors) Tuesday through Thursday
$30, $40 and $20(students/seniors) Friday and Saturday
$40, $50 and $30(students/seniors) Closing Celebration

FOR MORE INFO: Call the Fabulous Monsters hotline at 323-931-5022
Email: thefabmonsters@hotmail.com Website:www.fabulousmonsters.org

For LA Press & Public Relations: John Hansen
323 363 5260
r2k4pr@aol.com

What critics are saying about Ramayana 2K3

“Ramayana 2K3, a new performance piece at LaMaMa E.T.C. by a super-hot troupe Fabulous Monsters that’s got the downtown crowd buzzing.”
-Broadway.com

"artfully executed…dazzles with spectacle. Prior’s gorgeous costumes and sinister masks look great on his 18-person cast."
-Sandra Ross, LA Weekly

"Ancient myth meets techno music and eclectic contemporary dance...a rich array of styles by choreographer Stephen Hues…an enduring sweetness of spirit…"Anahata Spurkel (Sita) exuded"…a serene eroticism that made the war fought over her entirely plausible….Will Watkins (Ravana) supplied unfailingly juicy over-the-top villainy."
-Lewis Segal, LA Times

"A daring depiction of the ancient Hindu epic. An over the edge hypnotic ultra theatrical experience of contemporary music,dance, and drama."
-Astha Singhal, Hollywood Masala.com

“There's no way the after-party could match what went on in the FABULOUS MONSTERS production of RAMAYANA 2K3, directed by ROBERT A. PRIOR, at the GASCON CENTER THEATER: hallucinogenic projections, dancing monkeys sliding up and down poles, orgy scenes, sexy evil gods and goddesses, wanton acrobatic demons, and your favorite yoga poses all set to a throbbing, trance-inducing score (did we mention the belly dancers?).” The audiences were “…jumping to their feet to applaud the rave-ishing telling of this classic Hindu legend, which dealt with issues of violence, paternity and loyalty …The Monsters would do well to try and go to Vegas. Their one blue guy beats Vegas' three anytime.”
-Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, LA Weekly

“Writer-director Robert A. Prior’s Fabulous Monsters expand on their old tricks of lavish costumes (by Prior), shadow puppets, Stephen Hues’ swaying, callisthenic choreography and actors arriving from ceiling beams and slithering down ropes to enact Valmiki’s 2,000-year-old poem. The energy and design are beyond reproach. You won’t find anything else in town quite like it.”
-Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly

Backstage Dec 9th,2003

New Kerala Dec 3,2003

NY Times Nov 26, 2003

TheaterMania Nov 26, 2003

LA Weekly Feb 14,2003(Pick of the week)

LA Times Oct 26, 2002